BLOOMINGTON — Although Indiana managed to score touchdowns on eight of its first 10 possessions Saturday night, en route to a statement-making 63-10 home victory over No. 8 Illinois , the 17th-ranked Hoosiers needed a special teams spark to kick their scoring into motion.

“We were talking about it all week, how in big games, I just like to make plays for the team, and I felt like that was a big play, and I just did my job coming off the edge,” Indiana junior defensive back D’Angelo Ponds said of his early first quarter punt block and score that gave the Hoosiers a 7-0 lead they’d ride the rest of Saturday night’s beatdown. “It was a good play called by the coaches.

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