Indications of great expectations: The Scarlet Knights lead 28-0 at the half against Buffalo. (Yeah, it’s only Buffalo.) Rice has two TDs on the ground and Tiquan Underwood has two long TDs on passes by Teel. Still, Coach Schiano is not happy. Missed TD pass by Teel, fumble by Rice and “not tackling like our guys should be tackling.” RU also had a missed FG by Ito from 40 yards out. “We need to play our game,” he says.
---------------
Early in the second half, Buffalo is forced to go on 4th and 2 on the 12 yard line and fail on a pass into the end zone. RU takes over and goes on offense.
Jeremy Ito missed a second field goal from 54 yards out with 6 minutes to go in the third quarter.
Buffalo gets a FG to prevent the shutout. RU still leads 28-3 but nothing midway through the third quarter will make Schiano any happier as RU didn’t come out an dominate its weaker rival as it should have.
But then a couple of passes (putting Teel over 300 yards for the game) and a long run (41 yards) by Ray Rice (number 3 for the game) and RU goes up 35-3. And there’s still the fourth quarter to play.
38 yard field goal by Ito makes it 38-3 with about 6 minutes in the game.
---------------
Mike Teel finished with 16 of 23, 328 yards passing for two TDs and no interceptions.
Ray Rice ended the night with 25 carries, 184 yards, and 3 TDs. He is just 16 yards shy of becoming the #1 rusher in Rutgers history in this, his 26th career game. He also has 28 career TDs. (He did lose one fumble, however.)
Tiquan Underwood caught 10 passes for 248 yards (a school single game record) and 2 TDs.
Jeremy Ito made only one of three attempts on field goals but converted all five extra points.
The second and third team offense and defense were on the field for most of the fourth quarter.
---------------
(Governor Corzine was wise enough to show up 10 minutes after kickoff. Sure, he missed two RU Ray Rice scores, but then again he didn’t get introduced early and booed.)
---------------
Final score is RU 38, Buffalo 3
The complete story and stats are here.
---------------
Next up for RU will be Navy. They play Friday night, September 7 at RU.
No comments:
Post a Comment