Rutgers Scarlet Knights

RUTGERS WOUND UP WITH A PERFECT SEASON AND THE NATION'S LONGEST WINNING STREAK, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO BOWLS, THE KNIGHTS ARE SPINNING THEIR WHEELS

Rutgers, winner of 18 straight games, was looking forward to the dawn of a new era when it scheduled Penn State. Instead the Scarlet Knights were taught a harsh lesson in expecting too much too soon

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Throughout the 1980s the Atlantic 10 has had little balance, scant television exposure and almost no chance of attracting the region's top talent—in short, all the headaches that the Big East dealt with long ago....