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2019 Indiana Hoosiers’ offense by the numbers

2020 Gator Bowl.

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KNOXVILLE — Tennessee (7-5, 5-3 SEC) will play Indiana (8-4, 5-4 Big Ten) in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl to conclude the 2019 season.

The contest will be played Jan. 2 and kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. ET.

Below is a look at Indiana’s offense by the numbers during the 2019 season.

  • Total offense: 443.6 (31st nationally)
  • Passing yards per game: 308.7 (13th nationally)
  • Rushing yards per game: 134.9 (100th nationally)
  • 3rd conversions: .482 (11th nationally; 79 conversions/164 attempts)
  • 4th down conversions: .438 (97th nationally; 7 conversions/16 attempts)
  • Red zone offense: .847 (57th nationally; 50 scores/59 attempts — 23 rushing TDs, 15 passing TDs, 12 field goals)
  • Interceptions thrown: 8 (40th nationally; 439 passing attempts)
  • First downs: 287 (24th nationally; 162 passing, 99 rushing, 26 penalty)
  • Sacks allowed: 23 (58th nationally)
  • Time of possession: 34 (5th nationally)
  • Turnovers lost: 14 (29th nationally; 8 INTs, 6 fumbles lost)

2019 Indiana schedule

vs. Ball State (W, 34-24)
vs. Eastern Illinois (W, 52-0)
vs. Ohio St. (L, 51-10)
vs. UConn (W, 38-3)
at Michigan State (L, 40-31)
vs. Rutgers (W, 35-0)
at Maryland (W, 34-28)
at Nebraska (W, 38-31)
vs. Northwestern (W, 34-3)
at Penn St. (L, 34-27)
vs. Michigan (L, 39-14)
at Purdue (W, 44-41 2OT)

Jeremy Pruitt details what the turning point was in Tennessee’s 2019 season

2019 Tennessee football.

KNOXVILLE — Tennessee started the 2019 season losing back-to-back home games to Georgia State and BYU.

The Vols then won one game (Chattanooga) in its first five contests. With a 1-4 start to the season, making a bowl game was a tough task.

However, Tennessee came together as a team and finished the regular season with five consecutive wins and a 7-5 overall record.

Tennessee has now accepted an invitation to play Indiana in the TaxSlayer Bowl on Jan. 2.

After accepting the bowl invite, Jeremy Pruitt discussed what the turning point was in Tennessee’s season.

“With the two off weeks this year, we were 1-3 heading into the first off week,” Pruitt said. “We had a disappointing start early in the year, and I feel like our seniors and our coaching staff did a fantastic job keeping this group together.

“We have a very young and inexperienced team and they stayed together and showed a lot of resiliency and fight and hung in there and we found a way to win ball games down the stretch. I’m really proud of the opportunity this team has presented itself with and giving these seniors the opportunity to play one more time.”

Phillip Fulmer discusses Tennessee’s process of accepting Gator Bowl invite

2020 Gator Bowl: Tennessee-Indiana

KNOXVILLE — Tennessee will conclude the 2019 season with a matchup against Indiana in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.

Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. ET on Jan. 2 at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Fla.

Following the announcement of the Tennessee-Indiana matchup, UT’s Director of Athletics Phillip Fulmer discussed the Vols playing in the Gator Bowl and how close they were in heading to the Music City Bowl.

“Nashville would have been a fantastic destination,” Fulmer said. “It is a great venue, a great place and in-state. The conference commissioner, in the end, makes the decision to ask for our preferences and we went back and forth a couple of times of what was best, and at the end I think we landed in the right place for this football team for this particular time.”

Fulmer also mentioned that the Gator Bowl is getting “the hottest team” as the Vols have won five consecutive contests.

“It played out very well,” Fulmer said. “There’s a process in place, starting with the College Football Playoff, things kind of fell where they did and being in the group that we were in, I think the Gator Bowl got the hottest team right now.”