[fullmetal]

I think it's rather uncommon for a "good team" (as estimated by preseason sentiment) to fall flat on its face in game 1 but reel off victories the whole rest of the way.  Most of the time, a bad game 1 performances does tend to indicate that the team is bad.  Thankfully, this year's team is tougher than that, and they have last year's Ohio State team as an example of how one early-season loss may not hurt you as long as you take care of business (aka recency bias, lovely thing that it is).

[fullmetal]

I think it's rather uncommon for a "good team" (as estimated by preseason sentiment) to fall flat on its face in game 1 but reel off victories the whole rest of the way.  Most of the time, a bad game 1 performances does tend to indicate that the team is bad.  Thankfully, this year's team is tougher than that, and they have last year's Ohio State team as an example of how one early-season loss may not hurt you as long as you take care of business (aka recency bias, lovely thing that it is).