[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/canadatanada]

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/nithrock → u/canadatanada]

Charlie Brown and the football. I fucking fall for it every time

[u/IHaveMeasles → u/canadatanada]

Nebraska is 0-1 in games against opponents with a pulse. That’s all that matters.

[u/Freeexotic → u/canadatanada]

Yeah, but also, there has been progress. I mean, maybe I'll be proven wrong if we get dismantled bu Oregon next week, but idk, it feels a little different to me. Besides, what's the point in being negative. My personal feelings aren't going to change this program either way so I may as well look on the bright side.

[u/TroyBarnesBrain → u/Freeexotic]

That's where I'm sitting. I can understand the pain of losing blocking out the light, but jesus fuck is everyone's memory so short that we don't remember the years with Scott Frost? Like can anyone remember how in-the-act-of-dying-from-dysentary levels of awful those teams were?

I hate to lose, and I mean I fucking hate to lose. I hate when it happens to me, and I hate when it happens to something I'm a fan of. But during the second half of Frost's tenure we got so bad that I stopped hating when Nebraska lost, out of apathy and that feeling of hopelessness. Like with depression, the feeling was blunted.

This season I can actually say that I hate we lost however, and that's because we have been getting better. Nebraska looks better than last year, and the year before that, etc. etc.

[u/xA1RGU1TAR1STx → u/Freeexotic]

Man I don’t fucking care. Until we win, this program and fan base needs to cut the shit.

[u/Freeexotic → u/xA1RGU1TAR1STx]

Cut what shit? Saying there has been progress? What do you want people do?

[u/xA1RGU1TAR1STx → u/Freeexotic]

But has there been progress? Because it was the same result as the past 10 years.

[u/Bartman383 → u/xA1RGU1TAR1STx]

I mean...we lost to IU last time by 49. So yeah, quite a bit of progress.

[u/Jake_dasnake3 → u/canadatanada]

6 years? This shit was old 6 years ago

[u/SignificantChicken65 → u/canadatanada]

They are making progress. We just made the #7 team in the nation work for it!

[u/TaftIsUnderrated → u/SignificantChicken65]

Just like 2024 Ohio State...

[u/IDontBelieveInIsms → u/SignificantChicken65]

Brain damage take

I legitimately could not care less. Anything that isn’t a win is a loss. None of these meant anything and pretending like this one does is just dishonest. Losses are losses

20-28 vs 12-2 Iowa in 2015 17-23 vs 11-3 Wisconsin in 2016 44-56 vs 11-2 Penn State in 2017 31-36 vs 13-1 National Champs Ohio State in 2018 24-27 vs 10-3 Iowa in 2019 16-23 vs 11-2 Oklahoma in 2021 20-24 vs 11-2 Michigan State in 2021 29-32 vs 12-2 Michigan in 2021 17-26 vs 11-2 Ohio State in 2021 24-31 vs 10-3 Illinois in 2024 17-21 vs 14-2 Ohio State in 2024

They pissed a 11 point fourth quarter lead down the legs. If you want pretend otherwise, be my guest but don’t include me

[u/huckyfin → u/IDontBelieveInIsms]

Holy shit lmao

[u/Inevitable_Catch_566 → u/canadatanada]

5-7 to 6-6 to 7-5. It’s not much improvement but at least it’s some improvement.

[u/TaftIsUnderrated → u/Inevitable_Catch_566]

5-7, 7-6, 7-6.

And remember, we went from losing to Iowa and Minnesota by walk off field goals in 2023, to not belonging on the same field as them in 2025.