Well, that wasn't good.
Sunday morning, and Saturday's ugly is still a fright. Down in Bloomington, it rained points and precip, and whatever suggestion remained of last year's magic got washed downstream for your Indiana Hoosiers. And over in West Lafayette?
Purdue commenced to being Purdue, which almost anyone familiar with Purdue football could have seen coming from a mile off. Ranked for the first time in 14 years after cold-cocking No. 2 Iowa in Iowa City last week, the Purdues Purdue-d it up, losing by 17 at home to a .500 Wisconsin team.
So a monumental upset, followed by getting monumentally upset: As they say in Ross-Ade, it's just what we do here.
And Indiana?
Losing 54-7 to Ohio State in a rainstorm is just what the Hoosiers do, too, even if we sort of forgot that after last year's lightning in a bottle.
These Hoosiers do not in any way resemble those Hoosiers, even if a lot of the names are the same. These Hoosiers are a fine football team, except for a couple of things they can't do. Like, you know, block, tackle, cover receivers, minor stuff like that.
Some numbers: Indiana rushed for 48 yards (averaging 1.3 yards per carry), passed for 80 and scraped out just 10 first downs against the Buckeyes. The defense, meanwhile, was a screen door in a hurricane, yielding 31 first downs, 539 yards and a staggering 7.8 yards per snap.
You could be more accommodating, I suppose, but only if you scattered rose petals in the path of C.J. Stroud, Treveyon Henderson and the rest of the honored guests from Columbus.
So Indiana is 2-5 and Just Indiana again, and Purdue is 4-3 and Just Purdue again. And the only good news is the calendar.
Basketball season starts November 9.
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