Indiana Shuts Out Western Kentucky, 38-0
Zero points, 188 yards and an 0-3 record. That was Western Kentucky's day at Indiana, and Indiana did not make it hard on itself. Indiana won 38-0 and made it look routine.
The first quarter was scoreless. Then Josh Hoover threw a 26-yard touchdown to Davion Chandler at 9:51 of the second quarter, and Lee Beebe Jr. ran in from a yard out with 0:37 left in the half to make it 14-0. Indiana opened the third with a 21-yard field goal from Paddy McAteer, and one minute later the game was gone. Hoover hit Charlie Becker on a 79-yard touchdown at 10:43 (that one play out-gained Western Kentucky's whole rushing day of 68 yards), Beebe scored again from 2 yards at 1:38, and Turbo Richard's 25-yard run at 7:10 of the fourth finished it at 38-0.
The yardage was as lopsided as the score. Indiana piled up 513 yards (280 passing, 233 rushing) to Western Kentucky's 188 (120 passing, 68 rushing on 28 carries). Western Kentucky threw an interception, and Indiana did not throw one or lose a fumble. Indiana's defense had one sack, Western Kentucky's two. Indiana ran 41 times, and its three rushing touchdowns (Beebe twice, Richard once) all came from 25 yards or closer. Chandler's 26-yarder, the first score of the day, was the only one of Hoover's two touchdown passes that was not a Becker special.
Indiana is 3-0 and Western Kentucky is 0-3, and Western Kentucky is still looking for its first win. For fantasy, the top three were all Indiana players: Becker with 23.7 points, Hoover with 23.1 and Richard with 20.9.