Even when the going was slow I felt ok, unlike previous years. I underestimated Iowa's defense going in. I hadn't watched them and couldn't believe that much of their success wasn't a function of who'd they'd played. Disabused of that nonsense. Their defense is fucking-legit. So, crazy as it maybe sounds, I was ok being slowed down by them as long as we took some points and kept it moving, which we did. In years past, we'd be thrown off by or play down to the level of sub-par competition. That was frustrating. Yesterday was just good fucking football and it felt like Day and Wilson would work through it, which they did.
Thank the gods, old and new, that Iowa's offense is terrible, but even so the Buckeye defense was outstanding and showed me that even against a better offense they could more than hold the line until our guys got on track.
On the whole, this was a B1G late October noon game that in times past we would've fucked around and almost lost but won 23-17 or had a complete meltdown and lost. I never felt like that was going to happen yesterday and I love that even on an off day, for us, we scored more on Ferentz than anyone ever has, including us, and doubled what scum was able to put up.