Howard is averaging 6.5 yards per carry, but has yet to play a defense at the level of Wake Forest.
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Next up the Hoosiers, only No. 1 ranked Ohio State.
For the Demon Deacons, wins over Elon of the FCS and Army sandwich a 30-17 loss at Syracuse – a game they led at halftime. “But games like this are bringing us closer together, showing us that we’ve got to keep fighting throughout the game”. Be it Wake Forest, Wofford or Wisconsin on the opposing sideline, a 21-point lead with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter shouldn’t come down to a dropped pass in the end zone in the dying seconds of the game.
ABOUT INDIANA (3-0): Defensive coordinator Brian Knorr served on the coaching staff at Wake Forest from 2008-2013 and faces his former team for the first time, but he isn’t treating Saturday’s game differently than he would any other.
“The cool thing about where we’re at right now is that we’re really not clicking at the level we know we can”, Sudfelt said. His 14-yard keeper with 6:25 left cut Indiana’s lead to 31-17, and a 29-yard scoring pass to Tabari Hines with 2:33 left pulled the Deacons within 31-24. The only problem for the Hoosiers is they have also given up a ton of points. In the opening drive of the 4Q, Kendall Hinton was facing pressure from Darius Latham and tossed it towards the sidelines where Indiana’s Tony Fields was waiting.
Howard is coming off a season-high 203 yards in last week’s 38-35 victory over Western Kentucky and showed no signs of slowing late in the game.
Wake Forest will have the tough task of slowing down the Indiana offense.
The Hoosiers’ 4-0 start is their best since 1990, and the sixth time in program history that they’ve opened a season with four consecutive wins.
A RIVALRY? Wilson – a native North Carolinian who played for UNC in the early 1980s – didn’t exactly shy away from some strong comments he reportedly made over the summer to a group of Hoosiers fans. “I feel like as the game goes on I get stronger”, Howard told reporters.
– BIG TEN-ACC CHALLENGE: The Demon Deacons haven’t played a Big Ten school since losing to Purdue in 2003, and are 3-9 against schools in that conference at the time.
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Of Indiana’s eight forced turnovers this season, seven have been turned directly into touchdowns, including each of the last six. Knorr landed at Indiana during the staff shuffle that followed Grobe’s resignation and Clawson’s hiring.
