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How’s everyone feeling? Good? Or at least, good enough?

If you’re emotionally ready, grab a chair and let’s discuss IU’s 42-35 loss to No. 3 Ohio State.

If you’re an IU fan, which feels like it might be a term that could broadly apply to about half of the fan bases nationally given the Hoosiers’s start to the season, there are reasons to be encouraged after yesterday’s showing, and not in the moral victory, rah-rah, IU didn’t get blown out sense. It was like being named a finalist as a job candidate for a position for which you weren’t quite qualified enough.