Not so unsung heroes

Play this trivia game.\nName five starters on the offensive line. \nGive up?\nThey are junior tackles Bobby Brandt, Enoch DeMar and A.C. Myler; sophomore guard Anthony Oakley; senior center Craig Osika.\nIf that was impossible, learn them. Quick. Because these players were key to the Hoosiers offensive stomping of Wisconsin last Saturday. More specifically, they helped Big Ten Player of the Week senior running back Levron Williams to a record-setting day.\nBut this group has not let the new attention interrupt their modesty.\n"No one ever focuses on the offensive line," Osika said. We're pretty much the guys that go out there, do the job and don't get any recognition. I don't think the focus is going to change. It's always going to be on the skilled guys and the defense and we just go out there and do our part."\nAfter Saturday's game, the five linemen got recognition from coach Cam Cameron, senior quarterback Antwaan Randle El and Williams.\nAll three gave credit to the offensive line for helping IU rack up 449 rushing yards against Wisconsin. The blocking job and the holes they created attributed to the Hoosiers breaking down the Badgers nine-man front, set up namely to prevent the run.\nWilliams rushed for 280 yards. Randle El had 105. The three other backs combined for the remaining 74 yards.\n"Our goal was to go in there, try to block them, try to give Levron a chance to make some runs, try to get Antwaan a chance to make some plays, and they did," Myler said. "We felt that we were doing well, and we felt that we were giving them the chance they needed to make plays. We were getting our push, we were maintaining our blocks. We felt that we played very well. It was a good game overall across the front, all five guys."\nThe offense came under attack after the first three games, where the usually explosive offense was a dud. Going into the Big Ten season last year, the Hoosiers totaled 114 points in three games.\nThis season, IU's point total after three games was under 50 percent of that with 54 points.\n"I knew we were capable of doing that, because we did a lot of it last year," Osika said. "To tell you the truth for the first three games, I was a little disappointed, because it is basically the same group on the offensive line that came back and we expected to do that every game."\nThe first game against NC State was a debacle, where the offense scored 14 points, and had 106 rushing yards. That's 106 total rushing yards.\nAgainst the Utah Utes, the Hoosiers improved slightly on the ground on the second time out, but we still unable to break 200 yards for rushing. They had 169.\nShowing gradual signs of improvement, the Hoosiers got closer to 200 yards with 197 against Ohio State. \nThen came Wisconsin.\n"I was surprised because you have your tunnel vision (out on the field), and you can't see behind you and can't see the holes that's made," DeMar said. "I was just like wow, (Levron's) running pretty good, so we must be opening some holes. I was very surprised, but I was happy.\n"The thing that set it off was the offensive play, and throwing the ball down the field and showing we have a threat. Then (senior cornerback) Sharrod (Wallace) made that big play and everyone knew we were ready to play."\nThe offensive line expects to come out with the same intensity they had against Wisconsin, and they say there game plan will not change a bit.\n"We firmly believe that we are the best offensive line in the Big Ten, and our goal every week is to go out and prove it," Myler said. "We knew they had a lot of good guys up front, but we knew we could block. We're going to block. There's no reason why we can't continue to score points. \n"Sixty-three points is a lot, but we can continue to score points against people if we continue to do the things that were being coached to do"