OFFENSE: D+

Maty Mauk, Bud Sasser, Russell Hansbrough and Sean Culkin, you can leave the room. Jimmie Hunt, maybe you too. The rest of you, sit down. You need to hear this. Indiana’s defense is pathetic. The Hoosiers had allowed more than 30 points in eight consecutive games against FBS teams. That includes such football powers like Minnesota (42 points), Illinois (35 points), Purdue (36 points) and Bowling Green (42 points).

Offensive line, yes, I acknowledge that Anthony Gatti got hurt and that Brad McNulty had to come in cold. But that was a complete embarrassment. Four false starts, three of which you committed. Indiana’s “fearsome” defensive front hounded Mauk on nearly every play, especially in the second half. And Evan Boehm, what’s up with all those high snaps? I thought you were supposed to be a potential All-SEC center?

Receivers, yes, I know Mauk took a little too long to go through his progressions at times, but you didn’t get open fast enough and didn’t make enough plays with the ball. And Marcus Murphy, 11 carries for 11 yards? You can’t blame the offensive line for all of that. Not when Hansbrough carried 10 times for 119 yards.

Indiana was going to score points. All you had to do was match what every other run-of-the-mill FBS offense has produced against IU, and you couldn’t do it. Shame on you.

DEFENSE: C-

Giving up nearly 500 yards is no good, even against a reputable offense. But this effort would’ve looked much better if, without starting defensive end and surefire NFL draft selection Markus Golden, Missouri held Indiana to 27 points in a win.

That’s why the defensive pass interference call on Kenya Dennis was critical. Indiana was facing a fourth-and-6 late in the fourth quarter and threw an incomplete pass, only to get bailed out by a ticky-tack, but correct, infraction on Dennis.

The pass rush didn’t hold up when Indiana’s good offensive line could focus completely on Shane Ray, who did get a sack. Golden’s backup, Charles Harris, got his first career sack, but Harris didn’t come close to approximating Golden’s production and the defensive tackles didn’t get the same pressure up the middle or push against the run as they did against UCF.

Linebacker Michael Scherer again looked serviceable or better, but the rest of the linebackers and defensive backs were a liability in coverage and against the run. IU managed 241 rushing yards even though Tevin Coleman missed a portion of the game due to an apparent leg issue.

The team’s 47-game turnover streak ended as well.

SPECIAL TEAMS: A-

Christian Brinser was terrific again, dumping four of seven punts inside the 20 and not allowing a single punt return.

Murphy managed a 20-yard punt return, and Andrew Baggett made both of his field goals, including a 40-yard try in a close game in the second half. Indiana missed one of two field goals as well.

COACHING: C-

Indiana looked like the better-prepared team. Missouri did not adjust well to injuries, didn’t have an answer for the Hoosiers run game and got its butt beat at the line of scrimmage all night.

When it came time to make plays in the fourth quarter, the Tigers couldn’t finish off a touchdown drive and then allowed IU to march the field for the game-winning score.

Coach Gary Pinkel let valuable seconds drain from the clock as Indiana neared the goal line rather than calling timeout, and as a result the last-ditch drive that stalled just past midfield never had a chance.

This is in part a case of misplaced expectations, though. As much as Missouri lost last season, the team used a little smoke and mirrors in its 3-0 start, especially in easy wins at Toledo and home against UCF. Combined with injuries to two key starters, we can’t give Pinkel and the coaching staff a failing grade.

OVERALL: D+

Missouri entered the game as better than a two-touchdown favorite.

After last weekend, would you have believed it if I told you one of the bottom-third Big Ten teams would beat a ranked SEC team on the road?

At this point, Missouri will enter next week’s game in Columbia, S.C., as an underdog, and also should be an underdog at home against Georgia. Texas A&M and Arkansas, the two SEC West crossover opponents, look better now than they did before the season. And Florida on the road could be competitive as well.

The Tigers went from a 4-0 team that could get to eight wins just by beating Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas to a 3-1 team that may struggle to win eight games.