If Rutgers wins against Louisville on Thursday night on ESPN, the Scarlet Knights will go bowling for a fourth straight year.
“The bottom line is, if we don’t prepare well and we don’t play well enough to give ourselves a chance to win, there there’s no point in even talking about that,” Rutgers QB Mike Teel [...]

Count former NFL quarterbacks Joe Theismann and Phil Simms among those who feel Plaxico Burress should be punished for his crimes.
“Sooner or later, the National Football League is going to have to take a stance on athletes regarding conduct,” Theismann, who led the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XVII, said [...]

Erin Andrews will once again grace the Rutgers campus with her presence when she appears on the sideline for Thursday night’s ESPN game against Louisville. Read my story about Senior Night here. When Andrews last appeared at RU for the season opening loss to North Carolina, a couple of young Rutgers employees ran out onto [...]

As Mike Teel and his fellow Rutgers seniors head into their final home game Thursday against Louisville, Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano knows emotions will be running high.
The senior Scarlet Knights will play their final game at Rutgers Stadium and as if that weren’t enough, the game will be televised nationally on ESPN and it [...]

Having won its fifth straight game Saturday with a 30-3 victory over Army, Rutgers became bowl eligible.
Next up for the Scarlet Knights (6-5, 4-2 Big East) is a Dec. 4 tilt with Louisville at Rutgers Stadium (ESPN). The Cardinals (5-6, 1-5) need to win this game to become bowl eligible, while Rutgers will [...]

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A committee appointed to conduct an independent review of the Rutgers University athletic program has issued a report sharply critical of the school’s athletic director and its president and board of governors for failing to properly oversee “an increasingly successful and fiscally complex athletics program.”

The nine-member Athletics Review Committee found [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Greg Schiano agrees with President-elect Barack Obama on at least one thing.
College football needs a playoff system.
“I don’t want to disagree with the President Elect, so whatever he says goes,” Schiano, the Rutgers football coach, said during his press conference Monday that aired live on SNY.
Obama endorsed a playoff system during an [...]

Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano won’t be able to watch today’s Ravens-Giants game up the New Jersey Turnpike, but he will be rooting for Ray Rice.
“I’m real excited for Ray,” Schiano said Sunday morning in a conference call. “I got to see him when we played Navy. He came to our hotel on Friday night. [...]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mike Teel threw for 294 yards and two touchdowns to help surging Rutgers rout South Florida 49-16 on Saturday for the Scarlet Knights’ fourth consecutive victory.
Kenny Britt had his fourth straight 100-yard game receiving, scoring on a 93-yard pass play early in the fourth quarter. Rutgers (5-5, 4-2 Big East) [...]

THIS WEEKEND’S GAMES
Friday
Cincinnati at Louisville, 8 p.m., ESPN2
Saturday
Rutgers at South Florida, noon, SNY
UConn at Syracuse, 7 p.m, ESPNU
Here’s my feature on Kordell Young and Joe Martinek….Read the full story here.