Indiana Stays Perfect, 47-15 at Rutgers
Indiana led 37-0 before Rutgers ran a single play that counted, and the Hoosiers walked away 5-0 with a 47-15 win. Rutgers falls to 1-4.
Josh Hoover threw four touchdown passes, two of them to Charlie Becker (9 and 3 yards), one to Davion Chandler (2 yards) and one to Nick Marsh (12 yards). Turbo Richard added a 14-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, and Nico Radicic kicked a 39-yard field goal in the first. The Hoosiers missed an extra point along the way, and they still scored 37 straight points. It was 23-0 at halftime and 37-0 after Becker's second touchdown with 5:36 left in the third.
Rutgers finally got on the board when AJ Surace found Ben Black III for 53 yards. Clay Thevenin added a 1-yard run with a two-point conversion, which made it 37-15, and Indiana answered with a 1-yard Lee Beebe Jr. run and a 48-yard Radicic field goal.
The yardage was as lopsided as the score: 595 for Indiana against 254 for Rutgers, and 331 rushing yards to 59. Richard alone had 204 of those on 13 carries. Neither team threw an interception or lost a fumble, so there were no turnovers to blame.
Take Richard out of the picture and Indiana still threw for 264 yards, so there was no single thing to stop. The Hoosiers had four sacks, Rutgers had one, and the Scarlet Knights were held to 59 rushing yards on 35 carries, under two yards a try. A team that cannot run and cannot get to the quarterback has a long afternoon, and the score reflects it.
For fantasy, this was an Indiana buffet: Hoover had 33.7 points, Becker 30.7 and Richard 27.8, and all three had season highs.