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A New Standard Set


IUHoosiers.com

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Indiana football fans can perhaps now subscribe to this happy supposition:

As long as head coach Tom Allen and his staff are in Bloomington, the Hoosiers are going to field a very competitive defense.

The 2018 season constitutes quite a test of that hypothesis. IU graduated seven defensive starters from its 2017 unit. Now there are 13 freshmen or sophomores on the defensive two-deep chart heading into Saturday's noon kickoff at Rutgers.

But the youthful Hoosiers currently rank 29th nationally in total defense, allowing just 329.