No. 22 Indiana faces Indiana State in matchup of unbeatens

A pair of undefeated teams will meet when No. 22 Indiana hosts FCS opponent Indiana State in Bloomington on Friday evening.The two teams faced off most recently in 2023, when the host Hoosiers routed their intrastate neighbors 41-7.The Sycamores have opened their season with two straight wins for the first time since 1986. After beating McKendree 41-24 in the opener, they downed Eastern Illinois 38-14 last weekend.”It’s great to be 2-0,” Indiana State coach Curt Mallory said. “That’s something to really be proud of. I thought the team came out, made a lot of improvement from Week 1 to Week 2. It was a very physical game.””They’re doing a nice job on offense, scoring 40 points a game,” said Indiana coach Curt Cignetti, who led the Hoosiers to a school-record 11 wins and a College Football Playoff berth in 2024, his first season in Bloomington. “They’re fairly balanced. They’re doing a nice job throwing the ball.”Defensively, they’re doing a nice job, as well. I’m sure they’re going to come in excited to play, and I want to see us play a clean game.”Indiana (2-0) enters the game off a 56-9 victory over Kennesaw State last weekend after topping Old Dominion 27-14 in the season opener. Cignetti said there’s still work to be done, however.”Saturday, we definitely took a step forward, but it was far from clean,” he said. “Still a lot of areas (we) must improve. You always have to improve. The players want to look at the score and feel like, ‘Yeah, OK, we’re there.’ But we’re not.”Cignetti pointed out that the Indiana defense allowed nine plays of 15 yards or more and consecutive drives of 63, 64, 44 and 50 yards to a Kennesaw State team playing up-tempo.

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