NORMAL, Ill. — For the third-straight week, Indiana State football battled a nationally ranked team, falling to No. 8 Illinois State 24-13, in front of a sellout crowd at Hancock Stadium Saturday night.
The Sycamores reeled off 13 unanswered points in the second half to close the gap but a 24-0 Redbird lead was too much to overcome as Indiana State fell to 0-4 on the season and 0-1 in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
"We came out and we kept fighting and battling," head coach Curt Mallory said of his team. "Illinois State is too good of a football team to put ourselves in a hole like we did but I'm proud of our guys for the way they battled in the second half.