Rutgers Rolls Howard 58-7 Behind Antwan Raymond
Howard scored once, a 75-yard run by Eden James, and it cut Rutgers' lead to 21-7 with 4:15 left in the first quarter. Rutgers then outscored Howard 37-0.
The Scarlet Knights had gotten there fast. Dylan Lonergan hit Ben Black III from 16 yards, then KJ Duff for 77, then Antwan Raymond ran in from 18, and it was 21-0 before the first quarter was done. Howard's run came 13 seconds later and was the last time anybody wondered about the score. Raymond scored again from a yard out, Dane Pizzaro kicked a 29-yard field goal, Raymond scored once more from 13 yards, and a 47-yard Pizzaro field goal with 25 seconds left in the half made it 41-7.
Clay Thevenin's four-yard run in the third quarter and another Pizzaro field goal, from 40 yards, made it 51-7. AJ Surace threw a nine-yard touchdown to Vernon Allen III early in the fourth to bring it to 58-7.
The Scarlet Knights piled up 539 total yards, 271 on the ground over 46 carries and 268 through the air, with no turnovers, and they sacked Howard four times. Raymond had 16 carries for 140 yards and three touchdowns, and Lonergan was a tidy 12 of 17 for 214 yards.
Rutgers is 1-3, and after three losses to start the year a 51-point win is the kind of result that is good for a week or two. Howard is 0-2. Fantasy-wise, Raymond (32.0 points) and Duff (24.1) did the damage and Lonergan (21.9) finished the top three.