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Volleyball Out-Hits Arkansas by 192 Points in a Dominant Sweep
Three days after closing the Bellarmine Classic 2-1,Rutgers opened the Big Ten/SEC Challenge with a massive sweep, beating Arkansas 25-19, 25-20, 25-16 on Tuesday at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville. This one didn’t come down to the serve, though the serve came anyway. Rutgers hit .344 for the match and held Arkansas to .152, and won […]
Rutgers Football Week 1 vs. UMass: Series History & More
Rutgers Football will kick off the 2026 season on Thursday night with a non-conference matchup against UMass. The Scarlet Knights will begin another season in a familiar position — against an inferior opponent as a big favorite at SHI Stadium. The expectation is for Rutgers to begin the season 1-0 once again after what will […]
Get the best of On the Banks on the new SB Nation app
It’s a big day for On the Banks. Today, the SB Nation app is live, and it’s the best way to follow the Scarlet Knights. You can download it by searching SB Nation for iOS or Android. A year ago we made some big changes to our community, including offering fewer ads and the addition […]
Rutgers Football Season Opener vs UMass Preview
Rutgers fans, it’s game week! The Scarlet Knights are set to start this season on Thursday at 6 p.m. at home vs UMass. Rutgers has been named heavy favorites over their week one opponents for some time now. As of Monday, August 31, Rutgers stands as 29.5-point favorites over UMass, according to FanDuel, with the […]
On The Banks Reacts Survey: Will Rutgers Football Go Bowling This Year?
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in Rutgers fans and fans across the country. Throughout the offseason, there has been some back and forth between the Rutgers faithful concerning whether or not the Scarlet Knights will make a bowl game […]
This Week in Field Hockey: Fraticelli Bookends a Split Opening Weekend
No. 17 Rutgers opened the 2026 season 1-1, and the two halves of that record could not have looked less alike. Friday at No. 18 Monmouth produced a 5-1 scoreline that read like a rout and wasn’t one. Sunday at Wagner produced a 7-1 scoreline that was exactly what it looked like. In between, Olivia […]
OTB Staff Predicts Rutgers 2026 Football Record
The kickoff to the Rutgers football season is just under a week away, meaning that it is time for the staff here at OnTheBanks to lock in our final record predictions before the season starts. We have already previewed the offense, defense and special teams; now it is time to predict how they will stack […]
Rutgers Finds Its Goals, Then Watches a Two-Goal Lead Disappear in 3-3 Draw With Providence
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Seventeen days and three states after it opened the season in Knoxville, and three days after the weather took its home opener, Rutgers finally played a home game, and the goal drought that followed it up the coast ended barely two minutes in, but the clean sheet streak also ended in gutwrenching […]
Rutgers Football Special Teams Preview
With four days left until the Rutgers football season is set to kick off, we will finish our roster breakdown series on special teams. Here are the Scarlet Knights expected to start on the all-important third phase of the game, which is even more important in Piscataway than it may be elsewhere in the country. […]
SB Nation Reacts Fan Vote Predicts Ohio State to Win the Big Ten Championship
Recently, SB Nation held a fan vote about who the fans think will win the Big Ten and SEC championships this season. The SEC vote was pretty one-sided, with over 56 percent of fans thinking that Georgia will win the SEC. The Big Ten, on the other hand, was much more hotly contested. Ohio State […]
Volleyball Serves Its Way Past Evansville & Leaves Louisville 2-1
18 hours after taking down the host school, Rutgers closed the Bellarmine Classic against Evansville on Saturday afternoon, winning 25-22, 18-25, 25-22, 25-14 over Evansville at Knights Hall. They won it without hitting better than the team across the net. Evansville finished at .265 to Rutgers’ .254 and had the match’s leading attacker in Lyla […]
Rutgers Athletics Releases Know Before You Go Guide Ahead of the 2026 Season
Rutgers football recently released a Know Before You Go article and video regarding the fan experience for the upcoming season, and it included a few changes to the traditional gameday operations. One of the biggest changes announced in the article is that Johnson Park will no longer be a parking option under the school’s new […]
Volleyball Shakes Off Loss With 3-1 Win Over Bellarmine
Looking to avenge this morning’s collapse against Purdue Fort Wayne, Rutgers got its first win of 2026 on Friday night, beating host Bellarmine 25-15, 22-25, 25-21, 25-19 at Knights Hall The Scarlet Knights needed it. Friday morning they took the first two sets from Purdue Fort Wayne, hit .524 in the second and never trailed […]
Men’s Soccer Crushes Sacred Heart 4-1 in Home Opener
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Jim McElderry brought his first Rutgers team home for the first time on Friday night, and the goal that took 180 minutes to arrive in Washington showed up in 126 seconds. Rutgers beat Sacred Heart 4-1 at Yurcak Field to open a five-game homestand, and it was 1-0 before most of the […]
Rutgers Football 2026 Defensive Preview
The Rutgers football season is about a week away from kicking off, meaning that we have a good idea of who is going to be starting this season. This article will provide a bio for every projected Rutgers defensive starter by Ourlads.com. Note: this list may not be entirely accurate, as we cannot be completely […]
Rutgers Volleyball Blows Two Set Lead in Opening Game Against Purdue Fort Wayne
Rutgers volleyball spent Friday morning at Knights Hall doing most of the things a box score rewards. The Scarlet Knights won the kill count 67-61. They out-hit Purdue Fort Wayne .296 to .293. Across five sets, they scored 113 points to the Mastodons’ 112. They lost anyway. Rutgers took the first two sets and dropped […]
Rutgers Great & Fan Favorite Joins Coaching Staff
A Rutgers fan favorite is back in Piscataway. Legendary Scarlet Knights punter Adam Korsak has joined Rutgers Football coaching staff as a Quality Control/Player Development assistant, according to a report from Brian Fonseca of NJ.com. According to an employment contract obtained by the publication, Korsak joined the staff at the end of the 2025 season. […]
Rutgers Football 2026 Offensive Preview
The Rutgers football season is about a week away from kicking off, meaning that we have a good idea of who is going to be starting this season. This article will provide a bio for every projected Rutgers offensive starter by Ourlads.com. Note: this list may not be entirely accurate, as we cannot be completely […]
The Recruiting Map is very different these days
Does it matter if we “fence the garden” or recruit the “state of Rutgers” anymore? It was in the Chris Ash era that someone started using the phrase “fence the garden”, as in keep Garden State kids home. Clever phrase. It followed Greg Schiano’s catch phrase of “recruiting the state of Rutgers”, meaning the state […]
Rutgers Chose Indiana for its Blackout Game. This is Either Brilliant or Insane.
This is what you dreamed of. The lights go down. SHI Stadium is packed. Everyone is wearing black. The light show starts. “Dream On” is playing. Students are screaming. Alumni are screaming because this is also the homecoming game. It’s also nighttime, which automatically increases the production value of everything tenfold. The whole stadium feels […]
Rutgers Homecoming Matchup vs Indiana Announced as Annual Blackout Game
Rutgers football has announced that its homecoming game against Indiana will also be the team’s annual blackout game after rumors popped up in the off-season that there would be no blackout game this season. The Blackout game in recent years has been a showcase of passion for the Scarlet Knight faithful. Win or lose, the […]
Grabbing the QB brass ring at Rutgers
Like most carousels, it’s often just out of reach Related OTB post on this topic: Does the Lonergan start impact Rutgers’ “developmental program” image? After the news broke on Monday that Dylan Lonergan was named the starter for the UMass game, Andrew considered whether the decision was a knock on Rutgers as, in Greg Schiano’s […]
Rutgers’ 2026 Schedule, Explained Entirely With Cars
Disclaimer: This article is purely for fun and does not intend to unfairly criticize or compare football programs or their athletes. There are plenty of ways to preview a college football schedule. You can talk about returning production. You can analyze recruiting. You can debate the transfer portal. You can look at preseason rankings. Or […]
Lonergan Named Starter; Does It Impact Rutgers “Developmental Program” Image?
Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano has often called his program a “developmental program,” meaning that they look for underrated recruits and develop them to the max of their abilities through their system. There is some merit to this belief, as the program has turned three-stars such as Antwan Raymond and Kwabena Asamoah into superstars. However, […]
Game contracts: how much does it cost to “buy a win”?
Non-conference games aren’t always that cheap A while back – and I wish I could find the actual quote – Greg Schiano was responding to a question about non-conference games. The gist of it was, why is Rutgers playing the schools it’s playing? Why play Howard or Norfolk Sate or Ohio University? Why not a […]
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