PASADENA, Ca. — How to explain all this? The historical improbability of it. The casual dominance of it. The unrelenting, singular excellence of it. For two years, we’ve tried — and, as the stakes and the success have increased, failed — to adequately explain what is happening in real time to Indiana football, the program now redefining virtually every convention we’ve come to hold about this sport. It’s time to stop addressing IU according to its past. That book is closed. The Hoosiers are now only what you see on the field, dominant, merciless and inevitable. We don’t allow ourselves to think that way anymore. Surely too much history has been made, too much has happened, for anything to be...
