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P R E G A M E R E P O R T R U T G E R S @ P E N N S T A T E 8 P . M . , S E P T . 1 9 B T N RUTGERS FACTS COACH Kyle Flood (Iona, '93) COACH'S RECORD 24-17 in his fourth season as Rutgers' head coach; career record: same 2015 RECORD 1-1, 0-0 Big Ten Conference - East RECORD VS. PSU The Nittany Lions lead the all-time series, 23- 2 MOST RECENT MEETING Penn State's defense intercepted Rut- gers five times, while QB Christian Hackenberg completed 25 of 44 passes, including 3 of 4 on the game-winning drive to lift PSU to a close 13-10 victory. GOOD NEWS Rutgers has returned two kickoffs for a touchdown already this sea- son. No other team in the confer- ence has one. BAD NEWS Aside from Leonte Carroo, RU's star WR who was arrested Satur- day night, six other Rutgers play- ers have been kicked off the team over the past two weeks as a re- sult of arrests. DID YOU KNOW? Rutgers has scored 97 points in its first two games, which is the most to open a season since the Scarlet Knights scored 107 in the first two games of the 1993 cam- paign. Their average of 48.5 per game leads the Big Ten so far this season. | LOSING SLEEP Flood suspended leading re- ceiver Leonte Carroo follow- ing a violent incident outside Rutgers' football headquar- ters after a 37-34 loss to Washington State Saturday. Photo Paul Von der Heyden/Rutgers.Rivals.com ROUGH WATERS Amid off-field turmoil, Kyle Flood turns focus to Penn State A-er Penn State's loss to Temple two weeks ago, James Franklin was openly reluctant to enter the Beaver Stadium media room on the following Tuesday. "It was tough to walk into this press conference," Franklin said in his opening. This week's press conference must have been even more di,cult for Rutgers head coach Kyle Flood. Following a 37-34 loss to Washington State – a Pac-12 team that a week before lost, 24-17, to Portland State, a Football Championship Subdivision school – Flood learned that he had more negatives to deal with. Less than an hour a-er the WSU game, star wide receiver Leonte Carroo was involved in an incident out- side of Rutgers' football head- quarters. According to NJ.com, Carroo was arrested by univer- sity police and charged with simple assault in connection with an alleged episode of domestic violence. Police reports claimed he slammed a woman with whom he was romantically involved to the

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