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Sophomore RB Savon Huggins Leads Rutgers in Opener vs Fresno State
Young Back Runs for 131 Yards and Two Scores in First Career Start, Chas Dodd Plays Turnover Free in Win

WEEK 1 ACC SCORES -----#25 Rutgers (1-0, 0-0) 29 @ 24 Fresno State (0-1, 0-0)-----Notre Dame (0-1, 0-1) 17 @ 38 Kansas State (1-0, 1-0)-----Louisville (0-1, 0-1) 23 @ 30 Virginia (1-0, 1-0) -----Wake Forest (0-1, 0-0) 27 @ 41 #12 Virginia Tech (1-0, 0-0)-----New Mexico (0-1, 0-0) 9 @ 42 #19 Miami (1-0, 0-0) -----

Week 1, Season 3
August 24, 2013
Fresno, California

Offense
One of the biggest question coming into this season was how good Rutgers ground game could be now that Jawan Jamison is onto the NFL. Well, fans got their answer on Saturday afternoon when Savon Huggins led his team to a 29-24 win through rainy, wet conditions.

Huggins a red shirt sophomore making his first start, would run for 131 yards and two scores. His first score came on a beautiful 15 yard run where he dragged three Bulldog defenders into the end zone with him. His final score in the 4th quarter would be the eventual game winner, giving RU a 29-17 lead in the 4th quarter.

Senior QB Chas Dodd played turnover free football and threw for just under 300 yards and a score in the game. He connected with redshirt junior Brandon Coleman 7 times for 106 yards. His best performance of his career.

Fresno State fans can't seem to think what if? As their starting QB Greg Watson went down in the 2nd quarter with a strained tricep. His back up Brian Buller did a wonderful job filling in, throwing for 2 scores and almost leading his team back.

Buller would have two long scores in the game, a 43 yard strike to AJ Johnson which was reviewed but upheld, and a 38 yard dime to Victor Dean. The latter brought the Bulldogs to within 5 points, with over 4 minutes left in the game.

Rutgers could have put the game away earlier but the team started just 2/8 on their 3rd down conversions.

Fresno States run game was led by junior Joshua Quezada who began his career at BYU. Quezada took the ball 22 times for 64 yards in his first game at Fresno State.

Defense
The second biggest question coming into the season was how would Rutgers defensive secondary perform with a litany of new players. After one game it is a little tough to tell, though there is definitely some work to do.

Rutgers secondary didn't record an interception to open the season, after recording a school record 23 last season. Twice did they allow a Fresno State wideout get behind them for long scores, this with a back up quarterback in the game. Something that won't fly in the ACC for a very long time.

Leading the way on defense for Rutgers was Darrell Givens and Justin Mills. Givens would record a team high 8 tackles, while Mills recorded 2 sacks in his first career start for the Scarlet Knights.

Fresno State middle linebacker Ryan Boschma was a force with 7 tackles and 4 of them coming in the backfield.

Special Teams
Rutgers and Coach Ross may have to look into going for it on 4th down a lot more often as it seems their sophomore kicker Robby Harrell just doesn't have the leg needed for deep kicks. His long last season was just 42 yards with gusty winds in his favor.

Harrell would finish 3/4 on his kicks, but his miss from 49 yards is worrisome too many.

Fresno State kicker Garrett Swanson was perfect for the Bulldogs, hitting his only attempt from 35 yards, and nailing all 3 of his extra points.

Up Next
The Scarlet Knights make their ACC debut next week vs 1-0 Kansas State. K-State is coming off of a 38-17 home win over ACC foe Notre Dame.

Savon Huggins scores his first TD of the game while dragging 3 Fresno St. defenders with him.


Fresno St. WR AJ Johnson makes a great 43 yd TD catch in the corner, the play was reviewed and confirmed.

Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Fresno State Bulldogs
Aug 24, 2013	1ST	2ND	3RD	4TH	OT	SCORE
#25 Rutgers Scarlet Knights (0-0)	10	13	0	6	-	29
Fresno State Bulldogs (0-0)	10	0	7	7	-	24

Team Stats Comparison
	RUTG	FRES
Total Offense	461	434
Rushing Yards	164	117
Passing Yards	297	274
First Downs	26	17
Punt Return Yards	7	10
Kick Return Yards	104	83
Total Yards	572	527
Turnovers	0	2
3rd Down Conversion	6/15	5/16
4th Down Conversion	0/0	2/2
2-Point Conversion	0/1	0/0
Red Zone Touchdowns/Field Goals	9/3/3	4/1/1
Penalties	3/30	5/45
Possession Time	17:25	14:35

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER SCORING		RUTG	FRES
	(RUTG) R. Harrell, 30 yd FG	3	0
	(FRES) J. Quezada 4 yd run TD (Swanson kick)	3	7
	(RUTG) B. Coleman 13 yd rec TD from C. Dodd (Harrell kick)	10	7
	(FRES) G. Swanson, 35 yd FG	10	10
SECOND QUARTER SCORING		RUTG	FRES
	(RUTG) R. Harrell, 22 yd FG	13	10
	(RUTG) S. Huggins 15 yd run TD (Harrell kick)	20	10
	(RUTG) R. Harrell, 26 yd FG	23	10
THIRD QUARTER SCORING		RUTG	FRES
	(FRES) A. Johnson 43 yd rec TD from B. Buller (Swanson kick)	23	17
FOURTH QUARTER SCORING		RUTG	FRES
	(RUTG) S. Huggins 3 yd run TD (2pt no good)	29	17
	(FRES) V. Dean 38 yd rec TD from B. Buller (Swanson kick)	29	24

Rutgers Scarlet Knights PASSING C/A YDS TD INT Chas Dodd 23/42 297 1 0 RUSHING ATT YDS AVG TD Savon Huggins 27 131 4.8 2 Chas Dodd 5 13 2.6 0 Chris Ball 3 10 3.3 0 Jeremy Deering 1 4 4.0 0 Brandon Coleman 1 6 6.0 0 RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD Brandon Coleman 7 106 15.1 1 Jeremy Deering 5 53 10.5 0 Miles Shuler 4 44 11.0 0 Joel Andrews 3 53 17.6 0 Savon Huggins 3 36 12.0 0 Eric Mason 1 5 5.0 0 DEFENSE TACK SACK INT TD Darrell Givens 8 0.0 0 0 Justin Mills 5 (2FL) 2.0 0 0 Djwany Mera 3 (1FL) 1.0 0 0 KICKING FG XP PTS LONG Robby Harrell 3/4 2/2 11 30

Fresno State Bulldogs PASSING C/A YDS TD INT Greg Watson 9/17 159 0 0 Brian Buller 9/21 158 2 0 Joshua Quezada 0/1 0 0 0 RUSHING ATT YDS AVG TD Joshua Quezada 22 64 2.9 1 Jalen Saunders 2 18 9.0 0 Brent Gordon 2 15 7.5 0 Brian Buller 2 2 1.0 0 AJ Johnson 1 20 20.0 0 RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD AJ Johnson 9 158 17.5 1 Jalen Saunders 4 80 20.0 0 Riley Barnes 2 17 8.5 0 Joshua Quezada 2 10 5.0 0 Victor Dean 1 38 38.0 1 DEFENSE TACK SACK INT TD Scott Green 9 0.0 0 0 Ryan Boschma 7 (4FL) 1.0 0 0 Derron Smith 7 0.0 0 0 KICKING FG XP PTS LONG Garrett Swanson 1/1 3/3 6 35