And yet, if three possessions had gone for TD's instead of drive ending mistakes, the score may have been 28-6. Yeah, I get it, they didn't, but what would the collective group be saying if that was the result? Pretty happy...right? Better to make the mistakes against UNI, learn, and improve for the next game.
The success of the offense style used during the UNI game is sensitive to "big" mistakes. That's the problem. Mistakes are going to happen. Just as an example, if your offense averages one drive-ending type mistake per 10 plays, and the offense style takes 10+ plays to score a TD...well...you see the potential problem.
Yes, mistakes killed the ISU drives, but when you run an offense that always has to string a bunch of plays together to score, drives are going to be killed by mistakes.