Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Purdue Boilermakers Match Player Stats On Oct 12, 2013

No. 24 Nebraska 44, Purdue 7: Ameer Abdullah ran for 126 yards and a touchdown while Imani Cross added a pair of short scores as the Cornhuskers cruised in their first road contest of the season.

Ron Kellogg III threw for 141 yards and connected with Quincy Enunwa for an 8-yard, fourth-quarter touchdown pass. King Frazier added a 3-yard score late for Nebraska (5-1, 2-0 Big Ten), which won its eighth consecutive regular-season conference game in the first meeting between the schools since 1954.

Freshman Danny Etling went 14-for-35 for 184 yards with a touchdown in his first career start for Purdue (1-5, 0-2), which matched its worst start since 2009. The Boilermakers mustered only 216 yards of offense against a Nebraska defense permitting an average of 445.4 yards through its first five contests.

Purdue went three-and-out on three of its first four drives, and Etling threw his only interception on the other as the Cornhuskers raced out to a 14-0 first-quarter advantage on the strength of 3-yard TD run from Tommy Armstrong Jr. and a 1-yard plunge by Cross. Abdullah stretched the lead to 21 with a 28-yard second-quarter scamper.

Cross scored from 2 yards out and Nebraska defensive end Randy Gregory tackled Etling in the end zone after a wild scramble to expand the margin to 30-0 in the third quarter. Enunwa and Frazier added their fourth-quarter scores, but Etling broke up the Cornhuskersกฏ first shutout bid since 2009 on a 55-yard strike to DeAngelo Yancey with 39 seconds remaining.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Abdullah became the 28th Nebraska player to rush for 2,000 yards in his career, but only the 12th to do so before the end of his junior season. กญ Purdue started each of its first 13 possessions inside its own 25-yard line. กญ Cornhuskers CB Stanley Jean-Baptiste was ejected from the game for targeting Boilermakers RB Dalyn Dawkins on a pass in the flat midway through the second quarter.