Illinois State Beats Indiana State 17-10 on a Pick-Six
Take away Key Crowell's 48-yard interception return and this game is tied 10-10. That is the whole story of Illinois State's 17-10 win over Indiana State, and it is a story Indiana State has to tell with a lot of yards and not many points. Illinois State is 4-2 now. Indiana State is 2-5.
Indiana State scored first. Brady Allen threw an 8-yard touchdown to Jayden Reed at 9:11 of the first quarter. Michael Cosentino answered with a 22-yard field goal, and Victor Dawson ran in from 3 yards at 10:04 of the second quarter to put Illinois State up 10-7, its first lead. Less than two minutes later, at 8:13, Crowell picked off Allen and went 48 yards the other way, and it was 17-7. Illinois State had scored every point it would score.
Indiana State added one more, a 23-yard Sebastian Lopez field goal with 7:47 left in the fourth, and that was all. Illinois State did not score after the pick-six. The winner's largest deficit was the 7-0 hole to open the game.
The yardage looks like the wrong team won. Indiana State had 360 yards to Illinois State's 287, throwing for 279 of them, and Illinois State threw for 174 and ran for 113. Turnovers settled it: Indiana State gave it away three times (one interception, two lost fumbles) and Illinois State did too (two interceptions, one lost fumble).
For fantasy, all three top scorers came from the losing team. Reed led at 24.8 on nine catches, with Allen and Keshon Singleton behind him.