Postgame notes: 2022 Nebraska vs. Indiana football

Courtesy of Nebraska Athletics

• With its win, Nebraska cut Indiana’s lead in the all-time series to 10-9-3. The Huskers are 2-1 against the
  Hoosiers as Big Ten foes, while Indiana dropped to 8-6-2 against Nebraska in Lincoln.
• Nebraska improved to 84-23-4 all-time on Homecoming and is 8-2 against Big Ten teams on
  Homecoming
• Nebraska improved to 49-10 all-time in home night games at Memorial Stadium, including 8-4 against
  Big Ten teams.
• Nebraska scored a touchdown on its first possession of the evening, marching 72 yards in just three
  plays to take a 7-0 lead. It marked the fourth time in five games Nebraska has scored on its opening
  possession.
• True freshman cornerback Malcolm Hartzog made his first career start in tonight’s game. Hartzog had
  played in all four games, primarily on special teams.
• Hartzog had a 30-yard blocked punt return for a touchdown in the second quarter on a punt blocked by
  Chris Kolarevic. It marked Nebraska’s first blocked punt return for a touchdown since Justin Blatchford
  had a 25-yard return of a blocked punt for a touchdown at Baylor on Oct. 31, 2009.
• Kolarevic’s blocked punt was NU’s second of the season (Javin Wright vs. North Dakota).
• The blocked punt touchdown marked Nebraska’s first special teams touchdown of any kind since JD
  Spielman had a 76-yard punt return touchdown vs. South Alabama on Aug. 31, 2019.
• Nebraska had both a rushing and passing touchdown against Indiana and has had a rushing TD and
  passing TD in all five games this season. The previous time the Huskers had both a rushing and passing
  touchdown in each of a season’s first five games was in 2016.
• Receiver Trey Palmer caught eight passes for a career-high 157 yards, including a 71-yard touchdown in
  the fourth quarter. Palmer bettered his previous career high of 92 yards vs. Oklahoma. Palmer has had
  at least 68 receiving yards in each of Nebraska’s five games.
• The 71-yard touchdown pass from Casey Thompson to Palmer was the longest pass play of the season
  for Nebraska and the Huskers’ longest pass play since a 72-yard touchdown reception by Samori Toure
  last year against Ohio State.
• Palmer’s 100-yard receiving game marked the third different Husker with a 100-yard receiving effort in
  2022 (Isaiah Garcia-Castaneda vs. Northwestern; Marcus Washington vs. Georgia Southern).
• Running back Anthony Grant carried 32 times for 136 yards. It marked Grant’s fourth 100-yard rushing
  effort in five games this season. Grant is the first Husker with four 100-yard rushing games in a season
  since Devine Ozigbo had five 100-yard games in 2018.
• Grant’s 32 carries were a career high and he is the first Husker to have 30 carries in a game since Tre
  Bryant had 31 carries against Arkansas State on Sept. 2, 2017.
• Receiver Oliver Martin caught a 34-yard touchdown pass on Nebraska’s opening drive for his first TD
  catch of the season and the second of his Husker career. Martin finished the game with three catches
  for 65 yards, marking season highs in both categories.
• Nebraska edge rusher Garrett Nelson made his 25th consecutive start on Saturday. Nelson had a career-
  high two sacks for 18 yards, bettering his previous best of 1.5 sacks at Purdue in 2020.
• Nebraska linebacker Luke Reimer finished with five tackles. Reimer increased his career tackle total to
  203 to become the 41st Husker with more than 200 career tackles.
• Reimer had a third-quarter interception, marking his second career interception (2021 vs. Buffalo), and
  he also had a career-high two pass breakups.