Most will see Indiana's narrow escape at Penn State as a sign of weakness for the Hoosiers. Indiana was a 14.5-point favorite on the road against a Penn State team that had fired its coach and lost its starting quarterback for the season. It's a team that was looked at as an easy win, especially coming off a 24-point road loss to Ohio State the week before.

I get it ... but I don't agree with it.

I found myself more encouraged about Indiana following the close call than I was before the game, and I was already high on Indiana to begin with. What I saw was a team put into a very difficult situation that overcame it. If Indiana wants to win the Big Ten and then go and try to win a national title, it's going to find itself in similar positions at some point, and now it's proven it can

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