Illinois beat #231 Evansville by 39.
Northwestern beat #304 New Orleans by 30.
Minnesota beat #229 Nebraska-Omaha by 28.
Fairleigh Dickinson is ranked #258. If those are teams we want to be fighting with for #12 or 11 in the conference standings, I'd love to see a similar kind of effort, like how we crushed them last year. OTOH Iowa only beat #266 UMKC by 14.
As much as you can draw a conclusion from a one-game sample, a single-digit win would be pretty discouraging.