Kansas didn’t play a role in Saturday’s Indiana-Nebraska game, at least not directly. But the Jayhawks helped provide the play that ultimately kept the Hoosiers undefeated. No. 5 Indiana escaped Lincoln with a 20-17 victory over Nebraska on Saturday, rallying from an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit. The biggest play came with 7:22 remaining, when Indiana faced fourth-and-1 from the Nebraska 44-yard line.
Rather than simply trying to pick up the first down, quarterback Josh Hoover found Nick Marsh wide open for a 44-yard touchdown that gave Indiana the lead for good.
Jalon Daniels, Kansas and Curt Cignetti
After the game, Hoosiers head coach Curt Cignetti revealed where Indiana got the idea: Lance Leipold and Kansas.
Cignetti said he had noticed the play while studying red-zone film from Kansas during the Jalon Daniels era.
“Kansas made that one famous with a guy starting at quarterback for Tampa Bay,” Cignetti said, referring to Daniels. “And that guy’s a good coach.”
Indiana calls the play “Burger King,” and the Hoosiers had previously used a variation of it against Northwestern earlier this season.
But Saturday’s version couldn’t have come at a better time.
Nebraska had taken a 1...