There wasn’t much time for Joe Harasymiak to rest during Rutgers football’s bye week. The Scarlet Knights’ defensive coordinator went to work breaking down the unit and rebuilding it, looking for ways to improve a defense that had struggled to find any consistency for four consecutive games amid a mountain of injuries.

Rutgers needed three plays to get into the end zone, with Athan Kaliakmanis hitting Ian Strong for a four-yard touchdown pass that pushed the Scarlet Knights ahead. The defense, beleaguered for most of the season,