Game Notes: Indiana Heads to Maryland

SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana (4-2, 1-2 B1G East) opens a two-game road stretch at Maryland (3-3, 1-2 B1G East) on Saturday, Oct. 19. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. EDT at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium (52,656; FieldTurf) on BTN.
• IU leads the all-time series, 5-2, including a 2-1 mark in College Park.
• The Hoosiers claimed a 34-32 victory in Bloomington last season.
• Redshirt freshman offensive lineman Aidan Rafferty (Kensington) is the lone Hoosier from Maryland.

THE COACHES
• Tom Allen was named Indiana's head coach on Dec. 1, 2016, and made his debut at the 2016 Foster Farms Bowl against Utah. The New Castle, Ind., native joined IU as associate head coach/defense on Jan. 15, 2016. In Allen's two seasons as head coach, 21 Hoosiers have earned All-Big Ten honors and 15 have been drafted or invited to NFL camps.
• Michael Locksley was named Maryland's 37th head football coach in Dec. 2018. The Washington, D.C., native brings over 20 years of coaching experience, including two separate stints with the Terps, totaling 10 years.

NEWS & NOTES
• Indiana posted its second shutout of 2019 in a 35-0 victory against Rutgers last weekend.
• IU is one of three teams with a pair of whitewashings in 2019 - Wisconsin (4) and Florida (2).
• The Hoosiers own four shutouts since the start of the 2017 season, which shares second nationally with Alabama, one behind Wisconsin.
• Indiana scored on the first play of the game at the 14:50 mark, the fastest in Memorial Stadium history.
• IU held RU to 5-of-13 passing for one yard, the lowest output for an FBS team this season and the lowest IU has yielded against a Big Ten foe since holding Minnesota to 0 on Oct. 19, 1985.
• The Hoosiers kept the Scarlet Knights to 75 total yards, their fewest allowed dating back to 1966.
• Rutgers did not convert on 11 3rd-down attempts, the first time on record that Indiana did not allow a 3rd-down conversion.
• Whop Philyor reached double-digit receptions (10) and the century mark (182) for the second time in as many weeks.
• He is one of 12 receivers and two in the conference to record a pair of games in double figures.
• The Tampa Plant graduate's 6.8 grabs per game lead the B1G (T-10th nationally), his 92.2 yards per game sit second (15th) and his three scores share ninth.
• Indiana is T-1st in the B1G in sacks allowed (1.33, T-25th), 2nd in pass offense (302.8, 17th), 3rd in 3rd-down conversions (48.8, 14th), completion percentage (70.0, 13th), pass TDs (15, T-18th) and 1st downs (23.7, T-37th), 4th in time of possession (33:22, 13th), and 5th in total offense (438.2) and pass efficiency (156.1, 25th).
• IU is T-2nd in the B1G in defensive TDs (2, T-5th nationally), 3rd in opponent 3rd-down conversions (27.5, 7th), 5th in total defense (282.7, 13th) and pass defense (161.8, 10th), and 6th in scoring defense (19.7, 29th), pass defense efficiency (112.6, 19th), opponent 1st downs (16.5, 18th) and TFLs (7.3, T-26th).
• Fifth-year senior Logan Justus is one of just seven kickers in the nation perfect (7 FGs, 23 PATs) on the year.

Players Mentioned

Logan Justus

Whop Philyor

Aidan Rafferty

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