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Indiana kicker Charles Campbell struggled in last week's win over Idaho. He missed a field goal and had a second miss negated due to a defensive penalty.

“Our guys have bought into it, and you couldn’t see a bigger one than you saw right there at the end.” “He’s a great, great kicker because great kickers make kicks like that when the team needs him, so proud of that guy.” Allen took notice of the kicker’s prolific performance in Saturday’s win and celebrated accordingly, losing his shoe in the bedlam of the moment. Indiana’s kicking defense swarmed WKU kicker Brayden Narveson on both attempts, forcing a miss wide right on the first and cornerback Jaylin Williams blocked the second, which was returned by Bryant Fitzgerald for what was nearly a walk-off score. “I wanted to make sure I got it there, for sure, and just gave it a chance,” Campbell said in a post-game radio interview. You’re supposed to go out there and kick in high-pressure scenarios,” Campbell said.

Indiana football came back to defeat Western Kentucky 33-30 in overtime, moving the Hoosiers' record to 3-0 on the year. Here's what coach Tom Allen said ...

So we've talked about that and we've talked about that and we've talked about that. We've got to get better; I get that, and I understand that, and that's going to be the focus, all the things that the film teaches us. I talked before the game that tackling was going to be big because of the way they make you play, and then stopping the run, which we did up until halftime, and then in the second half of the game -- one of those was a complete misfit by one of our backers that has to make that play. I will say I think playing a lot of guys is a great thing, but we've still got some younger guys that are still making some mistakes in those second reps, and we've got to get better at that, and we will. But at the same time, that to me kind of showed up a little bit, but the bowing up in the score zone, which is inside the 12, and then the red zone is from the 25 to the 12 for us, the way we define it, but our guys did a great job playing great football in that part of the field. So obviously we've got to get things cleaned up to get down there, but we do spend a lot of time on that part of the field to be great in that area because we know if we can force field goals in those situations, we have a chance to win a lot of ballgames. So we used that to talk about, and I got on Charles about that, how it just sets the tone even in that practice. We did have some good runs, but they were doing some things at times, and we've got to have some good answers for that and not get caught in some bad calls, and we know that. So did not do a good enough job, and they got some tempo things at times, and we got some signals -- we were trying to do some things to speed things up, and a couple times for whatever reason our guys didn't get the right signal, so we had to make an adjustment with that so they could see the right signal and tried to even get our guys giving us signals to change some things with that. Ugly at times, but found a way to win the football game, and we've got a lot to learn from and a lot to build off of. Yeah, the thing that they do that really makes it hard is you try to balance the pass game fits where you're trying to help us in the pass game and also stop the run, so trying to borrow back and forth, and they do a good job of stressing you in that area. I'm not saying that at all, but there is a level of recognizing what they can do, and you've just got to get in a that score zone and choke them out.

Indiana's Charles Campbell (93), whose girlfriend is a Red Stepper, poses with the squad after hitting the game winning field goal during the Indiana versus ...