{"id":261586,"date":"2026-09-08T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/rutgers-makes-major-qb-change-following-stunning-umass-upset\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:14:11","slug":"rutgers-makes-major-qb-change-following-stunning-umass-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/rutgers-makes-major-qb-change-following-stunning-umass-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers makes major QB change following stunning UMass upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Perhaps the most shocking upset in college football was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/colleges\/rutgers_scarlet_knights\/68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rutgers<\/a> losing to UMass in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Rutgers went in as a heavy favorite, and UMass hadn&#8217;t won a game since October 2024, yet the Minutemen stunned the Scarlet Knights in New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To make things worse, Rutgers paid over $1 million to UMass for the game, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/greg_schianos_buyout_amount_looms_large_after_rutgers_shocking_loss_to_umass\/s1_13132_44257057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano&#8217;s seat<\/a> is scorching hot after one week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Rutgers announced a change at QB for Week 2, according to ESPN&#8217;s Pete Thamel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/rutgers_makes_major_qb_change_following_stunning_umass_upset\/s1_13132_44276988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most shocking upset in college football was Rutgers losing to UMass in Week 1. Rutgers went in as a heavy favorite, and UMass hadn&#8217;t won a game since October 2024, yet the Minutemen stunned the Scarlet Knights in New Jersey.\u00a0 To make things worse, Rutgers paid over $1 million to UMass for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}