June 24, 2026

Indiana players Ohio State football fans would worry about if not for the Buckeyes owning the Hoosiers

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Only two short years ago, Ohio State football fans felt a genuine jolt of concern at the hands of Indiana. © John Kuntz/cleveland.com/John Kuntz Indiana linebacker Aaron Casey, shown here sacking former Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields in 2020, now leads the Hoosiers in tackles. The Hoosiers never completely rallied to tie OSU back in 2020. However, they harassed Justin Fields into what was, at the time, his worst game, and Michael Penix threw all over the Buckeye secondary. The most memorable OSU-IU interaction in that COVID-19 season came at the end, when some Hoosiers supporters griped that the Big Ten threw out a poorly thought-out rule that would have kept the Buckeyes out of the Big Ten championship game. Yet during that game in Ohio Stadium, it appeared perhaps IU had turned a corner. To steal a line from Johnny Cash, just around that corner was…

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