And we are off. The first drive of the game featured some week one jitters with multiple drops from a highly-touted receiving core, but the Curt Cignetti era opened with a bang aside from that drive.
Before a couple of breakdowns on the defensive end to close out the first half, Indiana appeared set to cover the three touchdown spread by halftime. The offense was clicking, the defense was stifling, and the team was dominating an inferior opponent.
All things that it failed to do last year, or for much of the last three seasons.
It wasn’t perfect, but very few teams are in week one of the season.