Penn State represents Indiana’s second shot during upsetting a top-10 team
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana this week gets a second possibility to hit off a top-10 opponent.
Are a Hoosiers (2-1, 0-1 Big Ten) improved prepared to do to No. 4 Penn State (4-0, 1-0) what they couldn’t do opposite then-No. 2 Ohio State in a deteriorate opener?
Coach Tom Allen believes so.
“Going into Ohio State and diversion one, there were a lot of things we consider are a certain way, a certain clarity we have, and now we know,” Allen said. “We had questions about some positions.”
One doubt was answered this past Saturday when beginner tailback Morgan Ellison rushed for 186 yards in a 52-17 feat over Georgia Southern. Ellison has a team-leading 257 rushing yards and averages 5.8 yards a carry.
“We suspicion Morgan was a good actor and he’s proven he can be a really good using behind during this level,” Allen said. “We are a most improved group currently since we have a improved clarity of who we are and what a strengths are. We know what to concentration on. That gives we confidence.”
That certainty jumped with a win during Virginia, a group that is now 3-1 with a feat during Boise State, and afterwards again by winning Georgia Southern with a rushing conflict that had been blank a initial dual games.
This Saturday’s plea during Penn State is most some-more formidable. Indiana is 0-9 during Beaver Stadium, and 1-19 opposite a Nittany Lions. The Hoosiers’ usually win came in 2013.
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Allen pronounced this is a tougher-minded Indiana team.
“I demeanour during a approach this group has prepared, focused and finished,” he said. “That wasn’t always a box around here. That’s a large step.”
The standing is different for 3 harmed starters, cornerbacks Rashard Fant and A’Shon Riggins and reserve Marcelino Ball.
NOTES: Ellison was named a Big Ten’s beginner of a week. Returner J-Shun Harris won his second Big Ten special teams actor of a week honors. Harris returned a punt 70 yards for a touchdown opposite Georgia Southern. It was a second true diversion he’d scored on a punt return. Only Rob Turner has finished that in propagandize history. Harris leads a Big Ten and ranks third nationally by averaging 26.1 yards per punt return.
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