Rutgers football has a huge opportunity in front of it against Indiana.
The Hoosiers are a mess in head coach Tom Allen’s seventh season in Bloomington. They rank in the bottom 25 nationally in multiple categories on both sides of the ball, are on their second offensive coordinator and have yet to establish a starting quarterback. They’ve lost their first three Big Ten games by a combined score of 119-27, needed four overtimes to beat Akron and are virtually eliminated from postseason contention barring a complete transformation in their final six games.
Schiano’s viewpoint comes after reviewing the tape of the Hoosiers and seeing their “unique ... stout” defensive line, their “strong, fast, tough, instinctual” star Aaron Casey who is “one of the top five linebackers in the league,” their “excellent” head coach and assistants Bob Bostad and Rod Carey .
Tayven Jackson — the younger brother of former Indiana basketball star Trayce Jackson-Davis — and Brendan Sorsby split reps during Indiana’s 52-7 loss to Michigan last weekend, continuing a trend that started in the fourth week of the season when Sorsby relieved Jackson late in a blowout loss to Maryland. Allen did not declare a starter on Monday, saying only that the person picked to play against Rutgers will be “the guy” and that Indiana is “not going to rotate back and forth.”Monday.
Last season, Rutgers fired offensive coordinator Sean Gleeson at the bye week and rotated Wimsatt and Evan Simon regularly at quarterback during the first half of the season. The Scarlet Knights’ only Big Ten win that campaign came against ... the Hoosiers, who they defeated 24-17 win in Piscataway behind a breakout performance from running back Samuel Brown.
But none of it — the bowl bid possibility, the pecking order of the Big Ten East — will be on the Scarlet Knights’ minds.
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