Rutgers modified its offensive coordinator, discovering a brand new identification, and respiratory hope right into a season that was headed off monitor.
Samuel Brown V had a career-high 101 yards speeding and a landing and Noah Vedral threw for 113 yards and a landing as Rutgers rallied previous Indiana 24-17 on Saturday in Piscataway, N.J.
“At any time when my identify was referred to as, simply to execute my job,” the freshman Brown mentioned of his profession day. “That was just about it.”
It was ok to snap a 21-game convention residence shedding streak for Rutgers (4-3, 1-3 Huge Ten). The final convention residence win was in opposition to Maryland in 2017. It was the longest residence convention sport shedding streak in Huge Ten historical past.
Indiana (3-5, 1-4 Huge Ten) opened the sport with a 93-yard landing return on the kickoff as Jaylin Lucas went untouched to place the Hoosiers up 7-0.
“That’s enormous. We’ve been needing to begin higher,” Indiana coach Tom Allen mentioned. “The freshman is the quickest participant on our staff. He’s a particular expertise and we bought to seek out extra methods to offer him the ball. That’s precisely the way you wish to begin.”
The fast-paced Indiana offense moved proper down the sphere on its first drive of the sport. Quarterback Connor Bazelak capped off the 11-play, 91-yard drive with a 7-yard landing run to offer Indiana the 14-0 lead halfway by the primary quarter.
He was 23 of 41 for 210 yards and a late interception.
Rutgers offense was working below Nunzio Campanile, who's serving as interim offensive coordinator after Sean Gleeason was fired following Rutgers’ loss to Nebraska. With the change and the bye week, the offense responded regardless of being put in an early gap.
“That tempo, you would see in the beginning it took our staff — regardless of how a lot you do various things in observe, it’s laborious to essentially simulate that on the velocity with which they do it,” Rutgers coach Greg Schiano mentioned. “I believe it took us a sequence and a half to get used to it, however then what an unbelievable job the protection did.”
Trailing 14-7, Rutgers acquired the ball to open the second half. Following a 15-play drive that resulted in solely 46 yards, Rutgers settled for a subject purpose. Jude McAtamney matched his career-long with a 49-yarder to make it 14-10.
The Rutgers protection had a 3 and out, and the offense had a methodical drive to take its first lead of the sport at 17-14. Brown had a 2-yard landing run to cap a 12-play, 56-yard drive on the finish of the third.
Rutgers missed a 56-yard subject purpose earlier than Indiana missed a 52-yarder on the following drive. The Scarlet Knights took over by itself 34-yard line with 7:37 left. Christian Braswell had a 12-yard pick-6, giving Rutgers the 24-14 with 5:12 left within the sport.
Indiana hit a 38-yard subject purpose with 1:18 remaining to drag inside a landing, however have been unable to recuperate the onside kick.
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