Hoosiers will need to protect Kurtis Rourke above all other considerations.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The long wait is over. Indiana football begins its new era with coach Curt Cignetti at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday as Florida International visits Memorial Stadium in the season opener.
It's exciting and fans are more engaged than usual. On Cignetti’s radio show on Thursday night, Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson said both season and general ticket sales are up 10%.Here are three keys that will be important to get a victory over FIU. There is also a score prediction at the bottom of the story.You might as well put this as the top key in any game this season, but we’ll knock it out for the first game just to state the importance of it.
Add to that? Indiana’s offensive line has lost guard Nick Kidwell for the season with a knee injury. There will be relatively untested players at the guard spots, though Indiana does have experience elsewhere with tackles Carter Smith and Trey Wedig and center Mike Katic. They need to lead the way to keep Rourke hale and hearty.Given that FIU quarterback Keyone Jenkins is rightfully thought to be the Panthers’ main weapon, this may be considered counterintuitive.
The Panthers scored 64, 74 and 65 points in the first, second and third quarters last season, but they dropped off to just 25 total points in the fourth quarter, a paltry total for 12 games played. FIU was outscored 87-25 in the final period overall.
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