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Report Card: Ohio State Buckeyes 36, Huskers 31

“Moral victory” isn’t the right term to describe this. Progress is much better. Records can be deceiving at times, and in Lincoln, it turns out 2-7 can be better than 4-8.

As the final seconds ticked off in Columbus, my first thought about the Huskers 36-31 loss to Ohio State was that it was a “moral victory”.

But the more I thought about it, I’m not sure that’s quite accurate. There’s a natural aversion to claiming any sort of “moral victory”. Even when you’ve lost 13 of the last 15 games against division 1-A competition. It’s scoreboard: a loss is still a loss.

But as I thought about it more, I realized that it wasn’t a moral victory, it was simply yet more progress. It’s still a loss, but you can feel a little better about a one touchdown loss in Columbus when the tire tracks from woodshed beatings in Minneapolis and a suburb of Coralville are still healing.

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