Indiana University Athletics
Game Notes: Indiana Hosts Northwestern
10/29/2019 8:30:00 AM | Football
Setting The Scene
• After sweeping its two-game road stretch, RV/RV Indiana (6-2, 3-2 B1G East) welcomes Northwestern (1-6, 0-5 B1G West) to Memorial Stadium (52,656; FieldTurf) on Saturday, Nov. 2. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. EDT on FS1.
• The Hoosiers received 18 votes in the Amway Coaches Poll and four votes in the AP Top 25.
• Saturday is the first November night game in Memorial Stadium history.
• IU will unveil a statue of the late George Taliaferro in the George Taliaferro Plaza outside Memorial Stadium's North End Zone on Friday. Taliaferro passed away on Oct. 8, 2018, at the age of 91.
• Indiana will wear Taliaferro's No. 44 on the left side of their helmets on Saturday.
• The two teams are meeting for the first time since 2016 and for the first time in Bloomington since 2010.
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.
• Pat Fitzgerald owns a 97-76 (.561) record is in his 14th season as Northwestern head coach. Fitzgerald led the Wildcats to the 2018 Big Ten West Division title. The 2008 College Football Hall of Fame inductee starred at linebacker for NU (1993-96).
News & Notes
• Indiana is bowl eligible for the third time in five seasons.
• IU is off to its best eight-game start since opening with a 7-1 mark in 1993.
• The Hoosiers earned their first victory over Nebraska since Oct. 17, 1959, with a 38-31 in Lincoln last weekend.
• Indiana has won three-straight conference games for the first time since a four-game winning streak in 1993.
• IU posted a 3-0 October record, its first perfect October since 1993 (4-0).
• The Hoosiers reached 30 points for the seventh time in its first eight games, a program record, and for the fifth time in as many games, its longest streak since the final four games of 2015 and the first two games of 2016.
• With two fumble recoveries against the Cornhuskers, Indiana has a takeaway in 24 of its last 26 games and has two multi-takeaway games in 2019, in back-to-back weeks.
• Junior wideout Whop Philyor tops the Big Ten with 57 receptions (T-6th nationally) and 737 yards (14th nationally).
• Philyor is the only FBS player with three double-digit reception games in 2019.
•Redshirt junior Peyton Ramsey was selected to the Davey O'Brien Award's Great 8 list and was a Manning Award Star of the Week after he threw for a career-high 351 yards and totaled a career-best 393 yards vs. Nebraska.
• IU's offense is 1st in the B1G in passing (312.8, 11th), sacks allowed (1.38, T-22nd) and completions (212, 5th), 2nd in total yards (450.5, 31st), completion % (69.7, 8th), 1st downs (24.8, 18th) and pass attempts (304, T-13th), T-3rd in pass TDs (19, T-19th), 4th in TOP (33:32, 11th) and 3rd downs (47.7, 15th), and 5th in scoring (34.0, 35th) and pass efficiency (154.9, 23rd).
• Stevie Scott III ranks 6th actively among FBS players in career attempts (17.5), 14th in rushing yards per game (87.9) and 24th in all-purpose yards per game (101.5).
• Ramsey is 2nd in completion percentage (67.0), and Logan Justus is second in field goal percentage (89.3).
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