Indiana vs. Ohio State: The Marquee Game of the Week

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00:00Indiana, Ohio State is clearly the marquee game this week.

00:06Indiana has rode this 10-0 mark.

00:09Have they played anybody great?

00:11No, they haven't.

00:13They finally got a big test from Michigan last time out

00:15before they went on their bye.

00:18I think you said it perfectly.

00:20If they could stay within the spread, 20?

00:26Like, what is the number where Indiana has

00:28to prove to that committee that at 11-1,

00:31provided they beat Purdue in the last game,

00:33that they are more deserving than any

00:36of those other SEC teams who are going

00:38to have two or three losses?

00:40Or a second, which I don't think is possible anyway, a second

00:43Big 12 or ACC team?

00:45Well, let me throw a score out to you.

00:46I went and watched, or you remember this game

00:49a couple of weeks ago.

00:50If Ohio State beat Indiana the same way

00:53they beat Iowa about a month ago, it was 35-7.

00:56It was close at halftime.

00:58And then Ohio State pulled away.

01:00I still think Indiana would be fine just because Iowa

01:03competed for a half.

01:04And I kind of see that's what's going to happen on Saturday.

01:07I could see Indiana hanging around with Curtis Rourke.

01:10Will Howard and Rourke are the two top, most efficient

01:13passers in the Big 10.

01:14They're not fancy, but they get the job done.

01:16Curtis Rourke's had a really fantastic season.

01:19And I could actually see this being a little bit

01:21like an Ohio State-Michigan game where they go back and forth.

01:24The defenses control the tempo.

01:26If they stop the run, one of those quarterbacks

01:28will make a handful of pass plays, and that will be that.

01:30But what they can't have happen is

01:33what happened to Michigan State a few years ago.

01:35Remember, they came into the shoe, Mel Tucker team,

01:38and I think it was 49-0 at halftime.

01:41If that happens, those things we talked about with Tennessee

01:44and the other SEC schools would become in play.

01:48I mean, the book still has Indiana at minus 350

01:51to make the college football playoff.

01:53So they think that the Vegas still thinks

01:56that they can get in, even with a loss to a team

01:59that's now 12-and-a-half point dogs.

02:00Dude, that number's gone from 10-and-a-half to 12-and-a-half

02:03over the last couple of days for Indiana.

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