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Indiana is No Worse than Miss. St.

ScarletArrow said:
Every win counts for something, especially those wins that break 3 game losing streaks.

My point is that we can't assume that IU win has been the panacea of our offensive woes.

If we go out and lay an egg next week, the IU win means less than we think it does today.

Not be a killjoy - but I want to see how this weeks depth chart shake up and new found emotion develop over a couple of weeks.

Right. My point to someone else above was that no one is saying that today's win was "nothing". But many of us are saying that it doesn't mean that our problems have been fixed.

We played with some emotion today. We didn't turn the ball over as much (kudos to Santonio for not making it 4 (or 5?) games straight). The OL seemed to get marginally more push. The running game was improved. The WRs made some great catches. Smith played well.

It was a win. And I agree entirely with what you (ScarletArrow) said. My question was about the suggestion that someone was saying that today's W is nothing. To a team that would have gone 0-4 in conference play with a loss (not since 1922 I think I saw somewhere), the win is certainly more than 'nothing'. It's just not entirely telling. Time tells, today alone didn't.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
why not? we've played several IUs over the season and havent done shit offensively.
I guess I consider IU to be our weakest defensive opponent this year - especially in the run game.

I would like to be measured against a little stouter defense - say PSU - before I say 'our offense is where it needs to be to beat scUM'.

I also don't want to be a knuklehead and discount the obvious progress that was made today by the offense.

I just want to keep it all in perspective - not be seduced by Smith and Pittman's performance in one week only to be disappointed a week later.
 
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Didn't we do the same thing with Indiana last year? Went in with what had been an anemic offense, and then just lit them up? Ross's biggest game last year was Indiana if I remember right. I don't believe the "up" from last year's game carried through into the following week though. The "up" from this game will translate better because it wasn't just the better offensive production. More importantly, it ended a losing streak.
 
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