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Will Indiana Hoosier light a Cig Or Will Buckeye Fans Be Rockin The Shoe on Saturday?

Will Indiana Hoosier Fans Be Lighting a Cig Or Will Ohio State Fans Be Rockin The Shoe

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Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day yells from the sideline during the NCAA football game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Monday
Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day yells from the sideline during the NCAA football game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Monday

By Jay Berry

The Unbeaten, Indiana Hoosiers travel to Columbus, Ohio, to face the one loss, Ohio State Buckeyes.

With two games left in the regular season, the stakes don’t get much higher than this. Indiana comes into the game 10–0, looking to prove people wrong that their success has not been due to a weak schedule.

On the Ohio State sideline, they’re looking to live up to expectations and get one step closer to the Big Ten championship game—a rematch with Oregon, their only loss.

The Hoosiers last defeated the Buckeyes in 1988 when they won 41-7 in Bloomington, Indiana.

Since then, they have played 31 times, with Ohio State winning 30 of those matchups. There was one tie in the 1990 game.

The stakes have never been higher than this year’s game, with Ohio State ranked number two and Indiana ranked number five. The last time Indiana was ranked in the top five, they won a share of the Big Ten championship in 1967. It was a three-way tie with them, Purdue, and Minnesota.

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What does a win mean for Indiana?

The game is big for Indiana to silence the doubters and secure their path to the Big Ten Conference Championship. If they win against Ohio State, they will earn a spot in Lucas Oil Stadium to face Oregon, regardless of the outcome of next week’s game against Purdue.

Ohio State’s path to the conference championship game is to beat Indiana on Saturday and Michigan in their final regular-season game. That would give the Buckeyes a chance to revenge the only loss of the season against Oregon.

Once again, Ohio State is playing at noon on Saturday. Fox seems to have put them in that time slot every week. Will Indiana fans be lighting a “CIG,” or will the Shoe be rockin’ one step closer to a date with the Ducks?

We will know around 2:30 on Saturday afternoon, possibly earlier, if one team dominates the game. One thing is or sure, Ryan Day can’t afford to lose this game. Buckeye fans will be calling for his firing if that happens.

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