70-69
Is Indiana real or not.
Hard to win on the road when you play horsesh!t defense. They get away with it at home because of the tremendous atmosphere of AH.
Indiana hasn't won Big Ten game outside of Assembly Hall or the BJC since 2008. Impressive!
Don't jinx us FTB, we've still got to play IU at home!
Hope I don't jinx the Gophers by mentioning that Northwestern is one of 4 Big Ten teams (also Michigan, Nebraska & Penn State) yet to win a conference road game.
This just goes to show that it's a long, long season. Teams that are considered top-tier at the beginning of the season can turn into an afterthought in a matter of games. Indiana obviously plays very well at home and used a fairly home-centric start to the season to catapult up the rankings. Now that they're forced to go on the road against good teams (instead of having Kentucky visit them), we're seeing it even out a little.
Of course, we can also look at the Gophers in the same way. 0-4 was a bad start, but that's not to say they can't turn it around in a wide-open B1G. It's just too bad Indiana is killing their RPI with bad losses!
The Big Ten is completely nuts this season. Seems like there's at least 1 or 2 head-scratchers every rotation (Tues-Wed-Thurs, Sat-Sun). I've decided the only two things that will surprise me the rest of the season are (1) if OSU loses in Columbus and (2) if Penn State wins a road game. Otherwise, all bets are off.
The only thing that would surprise me is if the Gophers win at OSU this year