Legit

 So, how do we begin this morning, after Indiana 56, Nebraska 7?

Paging Pinocchio ... paging Pinocchio ... your Real Boy-ness is here.

That's one way.

Wake up the WHAT?

That's another way.

Outlined against a blue-blue October sky, Kurtis Rourke 'n' them others rode again ...

There you go. 

There you go, because yesterday your Indiana Hoosiers got Nebraska down there in an amped-up Memorial Stadium (and when's the last time anyone could write that?), and flat-out Nebraska'ed 'em. Which is to say, Justice Ellison did to the Cornhuskers what I.M. Hipp used to do to them. Elijah Sarratt and Miles Cross and Zach Horton and Myles Price played 1971 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers in the movie.

And when Rourke cut his finger and departed for the day -- mainly because he could, because the Hoosiers led 28-7 at the half -- Trayce Jackson-Davis' brother came in and completed 7-of-8 passes for 91 yards and two scores.

That would be Tayven Jackson, who finished off a Cornhuskers bunch that surely must have been wondering what hit them. They came in 5-1 with the seventh best scoring defense in the nation -- they were giving up just 11 points per game -- and the Hoosiers set them on fire. 

Ran for 215 and yards and five sixes against a D that hadn't surrendered a rushing touchdown all season. Ellison ran for two of those scores and lugged it nine times for 105 yards. That's almost 12 yards per lug to you and me, kids.

Ty Son Lawton added 64 yards on eight carries. That was an 8.0-yard average.

In other words, the Hoosiers gashed 'em. And their wide receivers gamboled through the Cornhusker secondary like Wildfire or Fury or My Friend Flicka or something. By halftime Indiana had piled up 329 total yards on the way to 495 for the day.

Oh, yeah: And the defense forced four turnovers.

All of this not only means Indiana is 7-0 for the time in 57 years, it also means they're 7-0 and good. Like, really good. Like, top-ten in the country good -- and, no, the Blob does not think it's getting carried away in saying that.

Right now you could take a picture of the Big Ten standings, and it wouldn't be like Lee Corso calling timeout to take a picture of the scoreboard one year when the Hoosiers somehow jacked around and scored first on Woody Hayes' fearsome Ohio State Buckeyes. Woody's legions went on to crush the Hoosiers, of course; no one's going to crush this Indiana team, which that picture of the standings would show is tied for first with Oregon.

Legitimately tied. Deservedly tied.

They're a team that has athletes on both sides of the football, and an authentic Cool-Hand Kurt at quarterback, and a wide receiver corps as deep and gifted as any in the country. If there were lingering doubts about just how undefeated they were -- come on, it's Indiana, and in their first six games they hadn't really played anyone good -- there should be no more doubts now.

That 7-0 record?

'Tain't Monopoly money, children. It's cash money.