“Nobody ever died for dear old Rutgers” go the lyrics of the song, but it sure seems that the RU football team has died. They have managed to lose what momentum they had after defeating Navy to go 6-2 and are now a depressing 6-4 having dropped games to the University of Southern Florida and Louisville.
Number 23 Louisville hammered the Knights into submission with a 56-5 drubbing Friday night. With this loss the Knights hopes for a bowl game may have gone up in smoke. It’s not that they lost but the margin of the defeat that may have doomed their chances.
Despite jumping out to a 3-0 lead the Scarlet Knights were never really in the game. There were some positive highlights on an individual basis, but the offense failed to move the ball consistently (they had only 9 first downs and were 1 for 13 on third down conversions) and the defense spent far too much time on the field against an overpowering Louisville squad.
You can read the official RU take on the game here and then check out the game stats here.
The Scarlet Knights next game is on November 26 against Cincinnati at RU. The bye week gives them a chance to lick their wounds and ponder what might have been.
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Yeah, it was pretty sad, but at least is serves as a warm up for another year of Gary Waters basketball... ugh.
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