As August draws to a close and Fall is within reach, the time has come again to find hope for what the next nine months of watching some form of the Indiana Hoosiers will bring. A bowl game, a ninth star, a sixth banner - every year around this time, the sky becomes the limit for what we believe the cream and crimson can achieve.
This year in particular, there are plenty of things to excite Indiana fans. Tom Allen brings back his starting quarterback and a much-improved offense to face a schedule that conceivably features as many as eight or nine winnable games.