Indiana Buries Howard 55-0 with a 41-point First Half
Six completions. Four touchdowns. Zero points allowed. Josh Hoover was 6 of 11 for 145 yards and handed Indiana a 55-0 win over Howard that was settled by halftime. It was 27-0 with 6:07 left in the second quarter and 41-0 at the break.
Charlie Becker did most of the early damage, catching touchdown passes of 34, 6 and 41 yards. Shazz Preston added a 39-yarder in between. The only thing that went wrong in the first half was a missed extra point after Becker's 6-yarder (so 13-0 instead of 14-0, and nobody lost sleep). Rolijah Hardy then returned an interception 19 yards for a touchdown, and Turbo Richard ran in from 14 yards out with 1:30 left to make it 41-0.
The second half was Grant Wilson's. He was 2 of 2 for 54 yards, and both completions were touchdowns, a 3-yarder to Davion Chandler and a 51-yarder to Nick Marsh, and that was the last score of the game with 6:03 left in the third quarter. Indiana finished with 505 yards, 296 of them on the ground on 46 carries, and had 5 sacks. Howard never scored. Indiana's one lost fumble was the closest thing to bad news all day, and take away the pick-six and the whole thing is still 48-0.
Indiana is 2-0 and Howard is 0-1. For fantasy, this was a Becker game: 29.1 points on three catches, which is a lot of points per catch. Hoover's 31.6 on only 11 attempts is the kind of efficiency you do not plan on.