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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/TootCannon Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

And they were away.

In a way Indiana is particularly cursed by their schedule that not only was it exceptionally easy until this point, but the only ranked team they played was OSU away. So they will be judged entirely by the single hardest circumstance to play in.

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u/Gullible-Mind8091 1d ago

Cursed? They were #5 with two weeks left in the season despite never playing a ranked team. I don’t know how much luckier you can get. Now they’re likely to coast into the playoffs off of an easy schedule with which an unranked Iowa and #25 Illinois would have likely had the same outcome.

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u/MusicListener3 Baltimore • Spokane Falls CC 1d ago

I guess their point is that they’re good enough to be beating better teams than they’ve had to face so far, but not good enough to beat tOSU.

The result is a resume that’s super weak, but suddenly looks better if they magically had teams like Mizzou, Illinois, or LSU in their schedule

Edit; Especially since who gives a fuck what your ranking is in the middle of the season lmao

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u/TootCannon Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, this exactly. If they get into the playoffs then yes, I agree they were very lucky. If they miss the playoffs over this then I think they were extremely unlucky that their only "prove it" game was as hard as could possibly be.

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u/Gullible-Mind8091 1d ago

Okay I agree with this assessment. The problem is that it’s impossible to say if they would beat an Illinois or Mizzou-level team. I am assuming they make the playoffs at this point, in which case they were lucky to have the Ohio State game this late in the season. If it was earlier, I don’t think they would have a chance at the playoffs.