It didn't...but as we've seen throughout Allen's tenure, his teams live and die off their emotion and energy.
At the time of McFadden's penalty (shouldn't even have been a penalty!, let alone targeting)... we were up 14-0, crowd, team, everything was like a lightning rod. That play should have resulted in 4th and long, and caused a punt, which likely would have set IU up with good field position. Our offense was rolling at that point, again...electric energy...we likely would have put some points on the board...so 17 or 21 to 0...with crazy energy.
Instead...horrible call is made...that same possession, UC's running back immediately starts to gash our defense, Ridder "all of a sudden" has time to make throws, they run it down our throat and score a touchdown. Pretty much all the energy is gone, stadium is quiet, everyone "knows" what's coming at that point.
The rest of the game their running back gashes us, and their QB has time to throw.
Obviously UC was going to get some things figured out in that game at some point, but the difference between figuring it out at some point in the 2nd or 3rd quarter, and being down by 20 ish points, is VERY, VERY different from immediately figuring it out in the first quarter, scoring a TD, and only being down 7.
It took the energy out of the game on our end, gave it to them, and put tons of pressure on Penix and our offense, that was not there before the penalty.
I don't like that Allen's teams are so fragile with their emotion and energy, but they are. And that call broke us, without question.