[Postgame Thread] Indiana Defeats Nebraska 20-17

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Indiana	3	0	3	14	20
Nebraska	10	0	0	7	17

[u/RealGreen4]

The fourth down play where both Marsh and Becker were wide open for touchdowns is one of the worst defensive plays I’ve seen. Nebraska acted like it was a goal-line situation where all 11 guys can attack the QB

[u/ScrapeWithFire → u/RealGreen4]

On one hand, Nebraska's defense played well overall and you can't really expect them to contain Marsh and Becker for an entire game

On the other hand, that specific play was such a fucking awful showing for their defense that it seems like it broke their entire team for the rest of the game

[u/Walter30573 → u/ScrapeWithFire]

I guess if you're going to completely leave a guy wide open for a walk-in TD you might as well leave both of them as open. Only get one throw per play

[u/MySabonerRunsOladipo → u/Walter30573]

Only get one throw per play

Until the final play

[u/Vechio49 → u/ScrapeWithFire]

I guarantee someone didn't do what they were supposed to on that play. There is no way that is how it was called

[u/non_clever_username → u/Vechio49]

I’d venture to guess at least two someones didn’t do what they were supposed to do, not just one.

Just a complete failure.

[u/comfortingmyself → u/RealGreen4]

Yeah that's gonna live in my head for a long long time

[u/godisoursavior → u/comfortingmyself]

two wide open receivers and that one dude playing qb spy for some reason I don't know why lmfao

[u/lil_layne → u/RealGreen4]

I thought the refs blew the whistle because I could not believe the defense just froze and left 2 of the best WRs in the conference unguarded

[u/Upset_Version8275 → u/lil_layne]

I seriously think Nebraska thought the play was dead 

[u/NerdOctopus → u/RealGreen4]

It must have been an insane gamble on a run, right? Some sort of all out blitz play hoping to rattle the QB before they could lob it? I can't understand the decision.

[u/username293739 → u/NerdOctopus]

Rhule said they swapped out a lineman and Nebraska had the wrong personnel in for the play and should have called a timeout to adjust, but didn’t.

[u/ItsSportingJoe → u/RealGreen4]

Also, how do you watch the run fail 50 times and expect them to run on a game changing 4th down

[u/2-59project → u/RealGreen4]

Especially in the series directly following them allowing a back breaking 75 yard TD catch. You’d think they’d be a bit more mindful of containing the WRs

[u/ItsNotKevinDurant35]

the year is 2023. Someone tells you reigning champions IU's toughest games are against Northwestern and (also undefeated) Nebraska. You try to have them committed.

[u/Internal-Challenge14 → u/ItsNotKevinDurant35]

"Wow, Woodson really turned it around and those two really have been making progress"

"In football"

"Oh....I need to make a call"

[u/N64jive → u/ItsNotKevinDurant35]

The year is 2014. You tell them Nebraska is going to lose 31 straight games to ranked opponents.

[u/WhoreyMatthews → u/N64jive]

By the end of 2014 that would’ve sounded about right

[u/Consistent-Guess94 → u/ItsNotKevinDurant35]

B10 is much deeper than anyone thought. Well, Michigan sucks and we can all be happy about that.

[u/monkeybiziu → u/Consistent-Guess94]

I think the ceiling has come down and the floor stayed where it is. Indiana, Ohio State, and Oregon aren't as dominant as they were a year ago. Illinois and Washington regressed majorly. Purdue still sucks, and so does Maryland, Rutgers, and Michigan State. Penn State and Michigan are mid. Nebraska, Iowa, UCLA, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and USC are the B1Gs middle class, and there's a solid argument for more of them to be ranked.

[u/Separate_Animator110 → u/Consistent-Guess94]

I remember when Someone said they were like 3 good teams in the big 10 and then everybody else was terrible but I can't remember who said that

Teams like northwestern, Wisconsin, and Nebraska are proving that person wrong

[u/Intrepid-Security650 → u/Consistent-Guess94]

Who do you think you are, the SEC? Only we get to use that kind of quality loss logic!

[u/StrangelyOnPoint]

The Nebraska experience:

✅ Start with low expectations
✅ Have early success
✅ Hopes start to rise
✅ Tide starts to turn
✅ Soul crushing loss

[u/acknowledgeme → u/StrangelyOnPoint]

Yeah this guy knows

[u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 → u/acknowledgeme]

Game recognizes game.

[u/Reibyo → u/StrangelyOnPoint]

Who gave you this info? You got plants in our building or what? Tell me where in Lincoln Stallions is right now?

[u/BeefInGR → u/Reibyo]

There's a surprisingly large amount of Nebraska fans in Michigan.

[u/Lithops_salicola → u/StrangelyOnPoint]

There is no hope, fuck everything, go big red

[u/ItsFreakinHarry2 → u/StrangelyOnPoint]

Major emphasis on that last point jesus fuck

[u/BIG_DICK_WHITT → u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

This was just as bad as the Tanner Mangum hail mary

[u/FrostTroll69 → u/StrangelyOnPoint]

B1G if true

[u/OrangeRubberBand123 → u/FrostTroll69]

It predates our move to B1G. The 2009 VTech game? And pour 1 [second] out for 2009 Big12 championship.

[u/moleculewerks → u/StrangelyOnPoint]

I'm tired boss.

[u/DrakouliasII → u/StrangelyOnPoint]

No other fanbase is subjected to this kind of misery

[u/IllAd4842 → u/DrakouliasII]

Sir, I am a 40 year old fan of the Detroit Lions.

[u/HeLMeT_Ne → u/IllAd4842]

I'm a 47 year old lifelong Huskers, Lions, and Royals fan. My life is mostly pain.

[u/AggressiveWolverine5 → u/HeLMeT_Ne]

Dude you’re 47, you got 94, 95 and 97, the husker guy almost in tears beyond me today was 22, he has had nothing but misery his entire life. 

[u/Hobbes427]

When I was a kid, I went hunting with my dad. A buck jumped out in front of where we were hunting, and I went to shoot it. However, I got to excited, and instead of shooting in behind the shoulder blade, I pulled the shot. The buck didn’t take off. Instead, he just kind of scrunched up, like he was in pain. I reloaded the rifle and finished him with a second shot. When we inspected the carcass, we found out that I had somehow shot the deer directly in the testicles, hence the reaction.

That deer is exactly what being an Husker fan is like. Life seems fine, then some douchebag shoots you right in the balls before killing you.

[u/VersaTron → u/Hobbes427]

Is this pasta? If not it should be.

[u/NYPD-BLUE → u/VersaTron]

Old pasta

[u/VersaTron → u/NYPD-BLUE]

Oh man it’s fresh to me. Glorious.

[u/FrenchFreedom888 → u/VersaTron]

Yeah. I remember somebody using it after one of our bad losses

[u/Kanin_usagi → u/VersaTron]

Don’t let your memes be dreams

[u/KevorkianTripleKill → u/Hobbes427]

>Born too late to enjoy the Husker golden years.

>Born too early to explore the stars.

>Born just in time to discover God did make a nexus of perpetual torment: in Lincoln, NE

Our existence is a series of 1-score losses. GBR.

[u/Fattering_Hats → u/Hobbes427]

Yeah, I went hunting once. Shot the deer in the leg. Had to kill it with a shovel, took about an hour. Why do you ask?

[u/MegaGigaTeraFlare → u/Hobbes427]

Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along. You get thirsty. You spot a IittIe brook. You put your IittIe deer Iips down to the cooI, cIear water. Bam! A fuckin' buIIet rips off part of your head. Your brains are Iayin'on the ground in IittIe bIoody pieces. Now I aks ya, wouId you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?!

[u/BobDeLaSponge → u/Hobbes427]

Even as a vegetarian, this had me laughing

[u/karl_manutzitsch]

Can’t fucking believe it. It was 17-6 at 12 minutes in the fourth. Nebraska dominated all game. Just sad rn man

[u/pasqua3 → u/karl_manutzitsch]

Nebraska had

-double TOP

-double first downs

-10/19 on third down vs 1/10

-more pass yards

-double rush yards

-better in the red zone

-a double digit lead in the 4th quarter

And lost. Brutal

[u/PhoenixKing14 → u/karl_manutzitsch]

Literal total domination till the long touchdown, and then it's just over

[u/92fordtaurus → u/karl_manutzitsch]

When they let up that 1 play td I knew the moment had gotten too big for the defense.

[u/kneightx]

We may eventually win one of these games, but even at 17-6 all I could think was, "I wonder how we're going to fuck this up."

Just 25 years of getting continuously punched in the nuts, separated by occasional national embarrassments.

Here we are again.

[u/MMMMSWAGGER → u/kneightx]

After Colandrea’s TD to go up by 11, I could have written a list of all the things Nebraska absolutely could not allow in the ensuing handful of plays if they wanted to win. They then went on to check off basically every thing on that list. So so frustrating if you are a Husker fan.

[u/Freeexotic → u/kneightx]

The moment they countered with the 75 yard pass I knew it was over. They stole the momentum and never gave it back.

[u/mel_anon]

This Indiana team isn't nearly as good as last year but one thing they have in common is you have to put the last bullet in them, because they will keep after it whatever the situation.

[u/BayHarborButcher10 → u/mel_anon]

I just knew things would get fucky when Nebraska missed that kick. They were killing us but only up 7. You have to play absolutely perfect and put the dagger in when playing against Cignetti and they just couldn’t do it. We’ll see what we’re made of next week

[u/non_clever_username → u/BayHarborButcher10]

Only up 7 and you already had gotten a few chunk pass plays. Was just about all you had on offense the first half.

I figured that was a bad omen. Can’t give a good team too many chances to beat you.

[u/OwnWalrus1752 → u/BayHarborButcher10]

Idk why so many teams miss FGs against Indiana in these close games. Oregon did, Iowa did, OSU did, now Nebraska.

[u/photo1kjb → u/OwnWalrus1752]

Cignetti can will the wind of the entire stadium with a single fart.

[u/[deleted] → u/mel_anon]

After the first big play TD to Marsh, I had no faith that Nebraska would stop Indiana from marching down the field again

[u/eye_can_see_you → u/[deleted]]

Nebraska scores to go up 2 scores, stadium is absolutely rocking, they come out in a defensive alignment leaving an elite WR one on one with zero safety help, easily hit a slant and its a 75 yard TD on the first play and immediately a 1 score game again

In pressure situations, Indiana just keeps executing. In pressure situations, Nebraska was scared and hesitant and out of alignment

[u/Fruit_Fly_LikeBanana → u/eye_can_see_you]

There was safety help. The safety just kinda...left.

The backend of Nebraska's secondary against RPOs is the epitome of trying to make the big play instead of doing your job

[u/metabolic_chaos]

If you dont like that, you dont like nebraska football (Im dying inside)

[u/Hairiest_Walrus → u/metabolic_chaos]

I don’t think I like Nebraska football

[u/festive_fecal_feast]

Carbon copy of the IU-Iowa game last year tbh

[u/AGMOTM]

What an UGLY, classic BIG 10 game.

Cignetti deciding to play conservative and punt / kick most of the game, just to go balls to the wall in the 4th that led to the second Nick Marsh TD was crazy to see. Nebraska is a tough team and Colandrea showed he’s the real deal.

[u/qdp → u/AGMOTM]

I am tired at being on the losing end of Classic Big Ten games. 

[u/Sargent_Caboose → u/AGMOTM]

Cignetti doesn't call offensive or defensive plays. This is all our coordinators outside of the odd play or two. Like throwing a pass to D'Angelo Ponds in the peach bowl was all Cignetti.

Shanahan is massively conservative with good defenses. Tendency to turtle till we build momentum.

Stop our momentum you can kill us, and losing the run game hurt immensely

[u/acknowledgeme]

Of the 30 something straight ranked losses we’ve had, this one seems middle of the pack. Pretty predictable, come from ahead loss.

[u/Sharveharv → u/acknowledgeme]

No weird fumbles, interceptions, punt return safeties. Just a solidly fun game with a heartbreaking loss

[u/a_freakin_ONION]

The game was exactly as close as the score suggests

[u/sfairraid13]

Brutal 4th quarter…Nebraska’s first down play calls on offense were abysmal all second half. Got behind the sticks nearly every drive

[u/phranq → u/sfairraid13]

I mean what was going on with the Oline. Indiana would rush 3 and get to the QB every play. Hard to play offense like that.

[u/sfairraid13 → u/phranq]

O-line actually played well most of the game. Colandrea got happy feet once Indiana started dropping 8 in coverage

[u/Sargent_Caboose → u/phranq]

Our D Line is the most cracked element of our defense and came through for us

[u/ExitEnter29]

GG Indiana, I'll be in my bathroom with a tub of ice cream GBR

[u/n00bca1e99]

Nebraska shitting the bed when it matters, and refusing to play a whole game of football. Story of this team my whole life.

[u/Letterkenny-Wayne → u/n00bca1e99]

Well okay but would you rather be a Nebraska fan born in like 2000 and have missed out on the glory days or be a fan born in like the 80’s and have…whatever this program has become after experiencing the highs

[u/n00bca1e99 → u/Letterkenny-Wayne]

Given that I am literally the former, I'd think I'd rather be the latter. At least I would have first hand memories of Nebraska being good.

[u/Benanderson27]

We had this fucking game. Indiana won but they played scared for a large portion of this game. We just don’t have the killer instinct to capitalize.

[u/Wasnaf1 → u/Benanderson27]

True, the play calling in first half made me so mad, a run on third and 7 and third and 10

[u/Benanderson27 → u/Wasnaf1]

Timeouts to punt, kick a field goal, and punt

[u/TampaTrey]

Matt Rhule’s snake bite against ranked teams continues to be an anomaly. Literally as soon as they went up two scores in the 4th, the bottom immediately gave out.

[u/iBuild85]

I don’t feel great about how it was won, but oh well. I think Nebraska gets theirs next week. GG Nebraska.

Hoover, just put it near Becker and/or Marsh and we go from a good team to a great team.

[u/TheGreatRavenOfOden → u/iBuild85]

Hoover now has 17 TDs to 0 ints and he’s still going to be more criticized than he should be.

[u/FloatCopper → u/iBuild85]

Upvoted.

But I feel good. OC and DC adjusted. Good win.

Very tough team. At their awesome stadium going wild.

Good win!

[u/notaquarterback]

That 4th down seemed unnecessary risk for Big Red

[u/ADanishMan2 → u/notaquarterback]

Boy, which one

[u/CornhuskerJam]

You bet your ass I'll be right back at it next week to get kicked in the balls again. Go Big Red til I die.

[u/Ohwhat_anight → u/CornhuskerJam]

You people are sickos and have made me start rooting for Nebraska how dare you

[u/Ok_Judgment_224]

They beat us on 2 fucking plays. We held them to 65 rushing yards....

I hate my fucking life

[u/Stommped → u/Ok_Judgment_224]

Honestly 65 seems high for what it felt like. We’ve never struggled that much to run in the Cig era

[u/Galt2112]

Secondary gotta get better.

Josh gotta stop leaving tuddies on the board by under throwing his wideouts.

But we’re 6-0 and bowl eligible in October for the third time in my lifetime, I used to pray for days like this.

[u/Luddite_Libertine → u/Galt2112]

Secondary needs to be replaced. Sayin and Smith might beat us alone next week.

[u/Galt2112 → u/Luddite_Libertine]

It’s a very real concern but the front 7 looks completely different when the QB isn’t a dual threat so that helps.

[u/Mjmarx59]

Just when I thought Nebraska might actually do it … first play of IU’s drive goes75 yards to the house

Being a Nebraska fan must be tough

[u/FutureEditor]

Nebraska’s run defense is no joke. That’s gonna inspire some changes going into next week and I’m glad they exposed it to learn from

[u/Sargent_Caboose → u/FutureEditor]

We needed this game so bad. It's why I dislike more than 2 cupcake games

[u/Prudent-Cheetah1656]

No moral victories to take from this one.

Goal line pick from Colandrea? 2 more drops from kwazi? 4 huge leaks by the defense? 2 critical penalties that were completely unnecessary? Yet another missed field goal? Up 2 scores in the 4th quarter and lose in regulation?

Yes, the score was close. We weren't embarrassed, but to still come up empty is inexcusable.

[u/nothingsexy → u/Prudent-Cheetah1656]

The goal line pick was just an inside the 5 arm punt. The rest, does fill me with great sadness

[u/IDontBelieveInIsms]

The team revealed itself to be the team you thought it was. They have a chance to beat Oregon and Iowa. But they cannot get out of their own way. A loss is a loss and I refuse view it as anything else. Please bring the downvotes. They pissed that fucking game away

Anyone who says otherwise is lying about the state of Nebraska football.

Great job by Cignetti and crew. Nebraska once again fails to get over the hill for the same issue as the previous 25 years.

[u/canadatanada → u/IDontBelieveInIsms]

Yeah. I have to assume Nebraska fans are getting a little tired of being told they're making progress and "almost there" for like 6 years now without ever actually getting that marquee win

[u/notoriousCBD → u/canadatanada]

Hahaha, I've been hearing that since at least 2005. Nebraska has had like 3 wins against top 10 teams since then and two were against a Michigan State when they were decent.

[u/TigersBadDrives → u/IDontBelieveInIsms]

Yep. Local sports talk will hype us all next week and we'll fucking lose to Oregon, then we'll limp to bowl eligibility, and maybe even a ceiling of 8 wins given how Washington, Rutgers and Illinois all look, while losing to Iowa, and Ohio State along the way. I guess progressing from being trash to just being mediocre forever is still progress

[u/bigbluethunder → u/IDontBelieveInIsms]

In some ways this is a step forward. Nebraska can hang with the Big boys. 

In other ways it’s exactly the same. Pissing a big game away that was yours to lose in a new, agonizing way. 

[u/fuckrNFLmods]

I'll take solace in the fact that we were called frauds after Iowa and Penn State last year. A win against an undefeated conference opponent is a good thing believe it or not.

[u/pro_nosepicker → u/fuckrNFLmods]

This game was very similar to Iowa-IU last year.

[u/lil_layne]

There was a lot of sloppiness in this game but I find it hard to be upset about a road win against a B1G team that was 5-0. Nebraska is a good team but since they aren’t ranked we will still probably hear from people than we haven’t beaten anyone good, just like how it was against Northwestern.

[u/Galt2112 → u/lil_layne]

This is, worst case scenario, the 3rd best IUFB team of my lifetime. We’ve got stuff to clean up but you won’t catch me getting pissed at this squad.

[u/tehfro → u/Galt2112]

Yep... remember the days when we'd be thrilled just to be bowl eligible?

[u/Lefaid → u/lil_layne]

Frankly, I think both Nebraska and Northwestern should be ranked. The disrespect for Nebraska in particular is unreal.

[u/BenSimmonsThunder → u/Lefaid]

If it helps rankings are like election poles, there’s an effort by all the major tv deals to actively promote SEC above all as they have the rights to the network games.

In a real, unbiased ranking, based on actual talent and wins, Nebraska and Northwestern should’ve been ranked. Both really good football teams.

People forget IUs win against Penn St came down to the last second toe touch, and that same team went on to beat Ohio State, Alabama, Oregon, and Miami to win it all. Arguably the hardest road to a modern championship in all of post college playoffs history.

I just want to give Nebraska props. They’re a really good team with a diverse QB. They played well.

[u/INCH75Chris → u/Lefaid]

The entire Quadrangle of Hate plus Northwestern should be ranked

[u/Twall1297]

Nebraska just Nebraska’d 😔

[u/Xaxziminrax]

83 plays but only 17 points feels impossible

[u/MasPatriot → u/Xaxziminrax]

No negative stat is impossible with Nebraska

[u/Leegend124]

Phew might have felt a bit daunted for stretches there especially after that 3PT first half

Marsh and Becker both being wide open on that 4th and 1 for the 75yd Marsh TD was a massive blunder from Nebraska

[u/jelicub]

Name a more dynamic duo than Nebraska football and losing by 3 in the 4th. I'll wait.

[u/UnluckySuggestion309]

If you don’t like that game then you just don’t like Nebraska football.

[u/BanjoKazooieWasFine]

NGL I was quite daunted there for a minute at 17-6

[u/ChiCity721]

Nick Marsh! Nick Marsh! Nick Marsh!

[u/tehfro]

Definitely deserved to lose after getting badly outplayed in the first half but we stole that one on the road.

[u/andyf127]

Same shit different year. See everyone next year maybe, idk don’t really care

[u/Ok_Ask_406]

All time classic Nebraska game right there! Dominate 1/2 of play entirely at one point look like you’re going to take a threescore lead to put away the game and then just magnificently choke it away in the fourth quarter and lose by three again.

[u/Im_A_Ginger]

Nebraska the champion of moral victories. Fuck I hate it here.

[u/WayneScote]

Good game Nebraska. Completely shut down our run game. Solid team, I'm excited for the rest of your season and what y'all are cookin' up in Lincoln.

[u/zvexler]

Indiana is bowl eligible and nobody bothers to mention it. Cignetti is a god

[u/Rando2846 → u/zvexler]

We also became bowl eligible in 2019 by beating Nebraska in Lincoln, and I thought getting to 6 wins before the Bucket game was the best it could get. I still can't believe where we're at sometimes.

[u/IThoughtThisWasVoat]

Can’t wait to see the “how bad did we get beat” chart, felt like Indiana won 6 plays.

[u/garethom]

Rankings are a funny game. This ends up being IU playing a close game against an unranked team and we'll probably drop. Had we lost, Nebraska would've been ranked above us and deservedly so.

[u/Dazzling_Network6103 → u/garethom]

Nah knowing the pollers we still would have been 3-5 spots lower

[u/RoastedDonutz]

Scott Frost is gone but his one score loss spirit lives on

[u/TheRed_Warrior]

Colandrea could’ve checked down on both of those third and longs in the 4th to make 4th down more manageable. Had dudes wide open for about 8 yards on both plays but decided to go for broke both times.

[u/randomthrowaway9796]

I made a mistake when I believed in Nebraska and decided to watch the game until the end. They looked great in the first half, but only managed 10 points. I should've known it was over then.

[u/Sea_Spend_8008]

Nebraska had this and then Indiana remembered they have a really good WR. I am not sure if Nebraska is good or not, but they looked good until it felt like they could win.

[u/Viper4250 → u/Sea_Spend_8008]

Welcome to the Nebraska football experience. One can never tell if they’re good or not until it’s time to actually win the game

[u/MistIniquity]

Indiana Iowa’d us

[u/awksomepenguin]

I think that went about as well as it could have. Obviously a win would have been better, but that was a good game apart from a few questionable play calls. Before this game, I figured we would go 8-4, possibly 9-3 with an upset to one of Indiana, Oregon, Ohio State, or Iowa. I still stand by that assessment.

[u/AfraidOfArguing]

If this was the SEC this was a gutty win against a good Northwestern team. Instead this is "fraud alert". I for one welcome our #10 ranking.

[u/wumboinator → u/AfraidOfArguing]

A Northwestern team so good they made Indiana think they were playing Nebraska

[u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 → u/wumboinator]

NU = NU

I don't make the rules

[u/Cartmaaan-brah → u/AfraidOfArguing]

Ranking don’t matter til the end of the season. Got a chance to take a jump next week

[u/CoCAllpro → u/AfraidOfArguing]

Bowl eligible now too

[u/AfraidOfArguing → u/CoCAllpro]

Real OG fans know

[u/Schmidtty29 → u/AfraidOfArguing]

It’s funny cause the SEC and the media is literally doing the thing RN when a bunch of teams upset each other and they call it “conference depth” or something but a team plays close to a top B1G team and they’re both ass.

Like look at SCAR and Florida RN, and Florida is basically a load bearing pillar for half of the SECs rankings.

[u/Kardinale → u/AfraidOfArguing]

Clearly we should rank Nebraska and Northwestern (if this were the SEC)

[u/NiceUD]

Still hard to gauge Indiana. How much should teams like NW and Nebraska be able to lean on "we played undefeated and ranked Indiana close"? Or is everyone just good? I guess we'll see it all unfold soon enough.

[u/DisplacedSportsGuy → u/NiceUD]

I think both Nebraska and Northwestern are better than we're used to them being. Nobody trusts them yet.

[u/Luddite_Libertine → u/NiceUD]

This IU team is an enigma. I’m glad next week is in Bloomington.

[u/Educational_Sky_1136 → u/Luddite_Libertine]

Seems closer to the 2024 team (quite good but not elite) than last year’s team.

[u/StyrofoamCueball]

Props to Nebraska. I underestimated them quite a bit. Colandrea is a problem… felt like half their offense was on broken plays that he turned into something.

As for IU, that’s why you pay those assistant coaches. Halftime adjustments won the game, even if I dont think Shanahan had his best day today. Well, that and Nebraska deciding not to cover Marsh.

[u/IcyPomegranate4973]

Excited to watch everyone claim moral victories for us all the way to a 7-5 finish and a trip to El Paso for the Sun Bowl. 

[u/Other-Chemical-6393]

If you don’t like that you don’t like Nebraska football!

[u/Automaton_2000]

Indiana likely to drop in the poll after a win for the 4th straight week. Wonder what the longest such streak is.

[u/DanTheMan14331]

felt good to watch some quintessential Big 10 football

[u/TheDoctor_314]

Nebraska may have only been back for three hours, but it was a fun three hours

[u/AuroraAscended]

Saw someone mention at half that us missing that FG meant we were going to lose by 3. Hate that everyone knew it was true.

[u/h3rp3r]

Defeat stolen from the jaws of victory.

[u/chopsticks26]

Trap game and Nebraska is a hell of a team… sloppy football for 3 quarters but found a way. Very nervous for next week

[u/iWrangleKittens]

How long must we endure this before Osborne’s deal with the devil has been paid off?!?

[u/Stutterin-J]

Rhule really should’ve signed that kid from Rushville for this

[u/United-Ad9153]

God hates Nebraska

[u/nhusker23]

There is no hope. Fuck everything. Go Big Red.

[u/Inevitable-Delay-303]

The AP will use this chance to somehow punish both teams, drop Indiana out of the top 10, and not rank Nebraska in favor of a 3-3 South Carolina.

[u/DBLHelix]

Very reminiscent of our road win against Iowa last season. That win really propelled the team forward, including a gritty win over a Top 5 conference opponent the following week.

[u/chazley007]

All Nebraska needed was 1 extra big 10 hidden second to win the game!

In all seriousness, Nebraska looked legit amazing for 3 quarters, then their qb started feeling the pressure and was throwing high like a certain qb I know....

Good game overall! Go Hoosiers next week!

[u/boy-detective]

Somewhere, Bo Pelini laughs and laughs, and then goes outside and screams at some kids to get off his lawn.

[u/polishprince76]

People so desperate to say Nebraska choked that away. They were selling hard on the run and pushing serious pressure. It worked for 3 quarters. Hoover couldn't answer. And the offense was kicking the IU D's ass. Colandrea is legit.

IU just finally adjusted. It was a great game. Kudos Nebraska. On to the game of the season. The country will be watching.

[u/xXFenix15Xx → u/polishprince76]

How dare you make a reasonable assessment of a game we must overreact 😂

[u/huskersax → u/polishprince76]

It's also a function of the possession meta-game.

We held Indiana to only a handful of offensive plays in the first half.

Once Indiana could make sure they got more offensive reps, their long shots to their NFL-level WRs turned into more points than the first half simply due to having more chances to get them the ball. Nonwithstanding the broken coverage on the conversion, nothing about this game was surprising - Nebraska took the lead, but Indiana was adjusting to their offense and even that last Nebraska scoring drive was getting pushed off-schedule aside from some big throws/runs.

People are going to take the chance to meme, but this game was not a Nebraska 'choke' as much two really good teams countering each other - and Indiana countered the clock control successfully and was able to exploit their mismatch at WR to win the game after that point.

[u/Xazier → u/polishprince76]

I've heard this same response for 10 years. One day maybe.

[u/Jay682002]

IF Indiana is a top 10 team, then Nebraska should be ranked even with the loss.

[u/ChurchillDownz → u/Jay682002]

If Nebraska takes a top 25 spot though, how can the entire SEC be ranked in the top 25? Think about it next time you say something wild and out of pocket like that please.

[u/Renfah87 → u/ChurchillDownz]

Won't someone think of the poor SEC?!

[u/Frosty-Marzipan-9824 → u/Jay682002]

We will likely drop yet again & Nebraska will stay unranked.

[u/Cartmaaan-brah → u/Jay682002]

Nebraska has blown out everyone they played and they looked good today. They were #13 in FPI coming into today and I doubt that changes by a lot. They should be ranked

[u/SassyKittyMeow → u/Jay682002]

They should’ve been ranked before. It’s actually insane how much doubt is put on an IUFB squad when if the logo was different no one would be asking this question.

[u/Secret-Delay3091 → u/SassyKittyMeow]

This is the 3rd time in the last 10 a B1G team started 5-0 and was unranked. That hasn't happened to the SEC since 1943.

[u/wardays → u/SassyKittyMeow]

I couldn't even imagine the hype this team would get if it was Alabama instead. Northwestern and Nebraska would be considered outside shots for the playoffs.

[u/Ssweetness1985]

This game felt a lot like Iowa and Penn State last year. This is a good Nebraska team and we got lucky. Needs to be a character builder.

I’m very scared of Jeremiah Smith.

[u/OldMillennialNewDad]

How they play next week at Oregon will say if the Rhule regime has turned a corner or just the same old.

[u/NerdOctopus]

God man, can't we just get blown out by four scores by halftime?? Pissing away a game like this hurts 100x as bad

[u/dokocha0216]

Nebraska: “I had yall boys SHOOK tho!”

[u/KDFoST]

“Bing me.” -Matt Rhule probably

[u/DoGoodThings9495]

7 minutes left, down three, and just panic. Plenty of time to continue to run the offense. Not punting was a dumbass decision, as we could have flipped the field.

[u/Upset_Version8275]

Bowl eligibility secured!

[u/Conan446]

I don't think anyone taught Nebraska corners how to turn around at all. Try it, look back at the ball, you might like it

[u/HoosierFanatic97]

I will say this as an Indiana fan and having looked at the metrics before the game, how the absolute hell is Nebraska not ranked?

[u/GiveMeYourHoney]

Sad but ive seen this ending before

[u/thisismyusername9908]

"Hey guys, I've got an idea. We just went up 17-6 with 12 minutes left. Let's run press man with no safety help vs two future first round receivers. Nothing can go wrong, right?"

Rob Aurich

Probably

[u/Leading-Button-7303]

Can't help but feel like the last drive of the first half for Nebraska was the beginning of the end. Either way, solid game for Nebraska despite the mistakes. Fix some play calls and execution and they win this game

Their ceiling is higher than I thought a few weeks ago, I'll be cheering for them going forward. No reason to hang your heads, cornhuskers.

[u/AvengingHero2012 → u/Leading-Button-7303]

We were up 17-6 with 11 minutes left… I wouldn’t blame that missed FG for this.

[u/AuroraAscended]

Really good game from Nebraska for so much of it. Colandrea just didn’t adjust well to Indiana’s change in pressure and we don’t have anyone capable at CB2.

Looking forward to what the rest of this season brings, I’m feeling very optimistic about 8+ wins. If we’re an SEC team we’d be ranked 18-22 range after this game (higher going in, obviously).

[u/1829bullshit → u/AuroraAscended]

Yeah, I know there's going to be a ton of doomers, but I would say 8 wins is the expectation now. Preseason I said 6-6 maybe 7-5.

[u/Knebraska]

I hope quality losses aren’t reserved for the sec

[u/hskrpwr]

Take away Indiana's 4 big plays and it might have been a shutout.

Make our FG and it's tied.

One call going our way instead of Indiana's and we might win.

Scott Frost taught me that a loss is a loss, but man it's hard to not look at our decade of suck and then this game and feel like we have made some major progress. 

Edit: some of you guys need to read my last sentence again....

Edit 2: Jesus you guys. The second half of the post is the important part. We lost. Indiana took advantage of our mistakes in a way that only good teams can do. We lost. It doesn't change the fact that we looked like a real football team against a very well coached football team that won the natty last year. 

[u/RepresentativeOfnone → u/hskrpwr]

I thought that after we went three and nine with all of those one score losses

[u/Bigcheese1211 → u/hskrpwr]

I mean we got bailed out on a RTP call on an INT amd immediately went 3 and out. So had our chances and did nothing with them in the 2nd half

[u/Brandywine1234567 → u/hskrpwr]

If my grandma had handlebars she’d be a bike