Two of the one score losses could have been avoided with even decent special teams. Ill and Iowa. But Rhule has to take some of the blame in Iowa. He rolled the dice that DR could make some magic happen with 35 seconds left. That defensive effort was wasted. To hold a bowl bound team to 5 first downs and lose is heart wrenching. But the biggest question to analyze is what really happened at Indiana. Absolutely catastrophic.
Two of the one score losses could have been avoided with even decent special teams. Ill and Iowa. But Rhule has to take some of the blame in Iowa. He rolled the dice that DR could make some magic happen with 35 seconds left. That defensive effort was wasted. To hold a bowl bound team to 5 first downs and lose is heart wrenching. But the biggest question to analyze is what really happened at Indiana. Absolutely catastrophic.
I'm with you there. If there's a smoking gun for 2024, Indiana is it.
I was just thinking that only about half of the teams win their last game, so we got that going for us.