The Buckeyes held on for a big win but if you talk to most Buckeye fans in cyberspace, you would not believe it.

Yes, it was ugly at times.

Yes, the Buckeyes were a 20-point (or so) favorite.

Yes, the Buckeyes got up by 28 points in this one.

No, the Buckeyes did not play a full 60 minutes of football in this one.

No, the secondary did not have one of its best games of the year.

But, none of that matters in this series, here we are just talking about snap counts and maybe at the start of the season we would have felt that this would have been a chance to empty the bench and get some valuable experience for young players.

That was not meant to be.

Indiana is better than anyone expected, Ohio State has not played anywhere close to its best football.

There were 82 snaps on offense, 68 snaps on defense and nine players (six on offense, three on defense) played every snap available on their side of the ball.

How did the snaps break up? We take a look with help from our friends at PFF.com as we update the snap counts on our weekly Snap Count feature.

Justin Fields played every offensive snap, as he needed to with this being a one-score game at the very end. When the Buckeyes were up 35-7 in this one, it felt like we might see either Jack Miller, CJ Stroud or even Gunnar Hoak, but that was not meant to be. Your starter is your starter for a reason but people might be shocked that Fields has played 97.7-percent of all the offensive snaps for this team.

These numbers are not really a shock as the Buckeyes had to attempt 50 rushes in this one. Master Teague had a big game going for 169 yards on 26 carries and was on the field for 50 of the 82 snaps. Trey Sermon picked up all but one of those remaining snaps and had 60 yards on nine carries. Again, with Ohio State getting up big, the hope would have been to get guys like Steele Chambers, Miyan Williams and recently off the injured list, Marcus Crowley in the game.

Chris Olave was on the field for all but six offensive plays and Garrett Wilson was out there for all but 16. The two combined for 270 yards, 15 receptions and a pair of touchdowns but Wilson would be quick to point out he kicked in both of those scores.

The young receivers are not getting as much run as people would have hoped for but it has been an odd season, no spring ball, no traditional camp, odd practices in place due to minimizing contact tracing, it is hard to look at numbers this year and make grand decisions about who is looking good and who might need some more seasoning.

When it comes to tight ends, it was the Luke Farrell and Jeremy Ruckert show. Neither tight end had a reception in this one, so some things feel like old times, but survive and advance.

All five starting offensive linemen played every snap in this game. There is no way to spin this, none of the back-ups saw anything outside of special units. Four of the five starters have 300 snaps under the belts, only with Harry Miller missing four of them due to getting a little dinged up in a game earlier this season.

This is the position group I was most curious about after the game, to see how the snaps broke down. Jonathon Cooper and Tommy Togiai led the Buckeyes in terms of snaps as both players were north of 40 snaps (Coop had more than 50). Beyond that, there was a split that saw many players in the 20s and 30s. One of the bigger surprises is that Zach Harrison was held to just 30 snaps in this one. While that was good for fourth on the defensive line, he just has not gotten out there and seen extensive playing time as he is not even to 100 snaps on the season, so is averaging just shy of 25 snaps per game.

Pete Werner played nearly every snap in this game, only off the field for three defensive plays. Baron Browning was not far behind at 55. Ohio State took the run away from the Hoosiers and Indiana would only run the ball 16 times in this game, so the Buckeyes had to get a little creative here. Justin Hilliard had 13 snaps, Teradja Mitchell had 12 and because of that, Tuf Borland saw his snap counts go down a bit.

Shaun Wade, Sevyn Banks and Marcus Hooker were credited with 68 of 68 snaps in this game. The other two DBs that played were Marcus Williamson and Josh Proctor who had identical 46 snaps.

Now, the question is, will the Buckeyes look to make some changes or share the load a little bit more over the next three games. It is easy to sit here at 35-thousand feet and be critical of the secondary in looking at the 4th quarter of the game, look at the stat book and really looking at the season as a whole.

Is this a case where Ohio State has its best players out there in the rotation and they are who they are? Are there young guys who might be close to ready? Let's face it, Illinois, Michigan State and Michigan are not tearing it up in the throw game.

What is fair is to say, the pass defense is not where it has been in past years, anyone can see that one. You better believe that there will be a lot of tense meetings on the defensive side of the ball as the Buckeyes have to fix some things with only a few weeks left in the season.