Indiana Hoosiers at North Texas Mean Green Preview

The Indiana Hoosiers (1-2) travel to Denton, Texas for their first true road matchup of the season to face the North Texas Mean Green (0-3) on Saturday.

The game is at 7 p.m. at Apogee Stadium and can be seen on ESPN 3.

The Hoosiers are coming off their first win of the season while the Mean Green just got demolished by Alabama 41-0, the No. 2 team in the nation, last Saturday.

This will be the first time the Mean Green has played against a Big Ten opponent.  It also is the second game in the new stadium that opened this year.

The Mean Green is coming off of a 3-9 season and is led by a first year coach.  Their best players from last season graduated or have been kicked off the team.

Expect Indiana to keep the offense going this week.  The Mean Green have given up 41 points in two of the three games this season, and the third game they gave up 48 points.  Indiana should score often and early.  North Texas has been routed in the first quarters of their first three games. They have been losing by a combined score of 48-7 in the first quarter; burying them in a hole that they haven't been able to overcome in 2011.  Indiana was up 21-7 after the first quarter versus South Carolina State last week.

Expect big days from sophomore quarterback Ed Wright-Baker and 6-foot-5 receiver Demarlo Belcher for the Hoosiers.

Saturday will also be the Hoosiers last non-conference test as they open the Big Ten season next weekend at noon against Penn State in Memorial Stadium.

Prediction:

Indiana 45  North Texas 24