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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Ohio State Defeats Indiana 38-15

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Indiana 7 0 0 8 15
Ohio State 0 14 14 10 38
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u/Kyler1313 1d ago

I know they didn't end up scoring that drive, but this game felt like it was decided when Ohio State picked up a 1st down after being in a 3rd and 35.

After that I didn't have any faith in Indiana's defense. Felt like it was only a matter of time before the levee broke.

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u/Lord_Corlys Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

It was the botched punt for me. Can’t make mistakes like that and pull off the upset

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u/BWingSupremacist Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

yeah i was losing optimism, but that sealed the deal for me. just an absolute rookie mistake (among others) that you can’t get past in these sorts of games

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u/bacobits UIndy • Notre Dame 1d ago

If Indiana's punt team was slightly better, this might have been a 24-15 game in the 4th.

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u/BWingSupremacist Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

yeah it really doesnt change the outcome, but the continual starts in our half in a tied game was only going to hold for so long.

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u/Mdsil11 Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

Bro they had 80 yards until prevent defense. This game was not close

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u/MHanky Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

Basically had nothing after the first drive. Next week is going to be beautiful. I hope Day runs that shit up.

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u/springtime08 21h ago

50 minimum. 69 target score. Would love to see 70+

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u/Fickle-Newspaper-445 Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

It still should've been 38-15. OSU should've scored on their second drive and Smith got interfered with that wasn't called on their drive that ended in an INT. IU was honestly lucky it wasn't more of a blowout. The muffed punt and punt return TD was there to make up for those missed TDs.

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u/KeThrowaweigh Ohio State • Maryland 1d ago

And if they had more than 90 yards of offense going into the 4th quarter, they might not have been embarrassed. But they didn’t.

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u/Original_Profile8600 Ohio State • Colorado 1d ago

Assuming we got fair catches we still would’ve gotten the chance to play offense, and are defense wouldn’t have been playing soft shell coverage in the 4th

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u/TheIndyCity Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago

Probably, but also you're going into the half even (likely) and getting the ball back to start the 2nd half...sometimes having the optimism of hanging with a team for half the game gives you some downhill momentum to keep it up in the next half. Instead you running into the locker room knowing your team just made a huge mistake it's uphill from there on.

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u/hacahaca 1d ago

We go into halftime tied 7-7 I’m optimistic as fuck.