After a bye week, the Georgia Southern football squad is set to return to action this Saturday, Sept. 23 at Indiana in a non-conference match-up that can be seen on Big Ten Network. Here's all you need to know about the game:
Game 3: Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 • 3:30 PM
Location: Bloomington, Ind. (Memorial Stadium; 52,929)
Records:
Georgia Southern: 0-2, 0-0 Sun Belt
Indiana: 1-1, 0-1 Big Ten
Broadcast Information
Television: Big Ten Network
PBP: Lisa Byington;
Analyst: J Lehman
Radio: Georgia Southern Sports Network
PBP: Danny Reed;
Analyst: Terry Harvin;
Sidelines: Russ Brown
GS: GAME NOTES (PDF)
IU: GAME NOTES (PDF)
The Series
• Georgia Southern and Indiana have never met before in football. In fact, this will be Georgia Southern's first football game ever played in the state of Indiana, against a team from Indiana or against a team from the Big Ten Conference.
Colerain Reunion
• It'll be a reunion of sorts Saturday as two high school teammates will be going toe to toe. Georgia Southern redshirt senior running back L.A. Ramsby and Indiana senior linebacker Tegray Scales both attended Colerain High School in Cincinnati, graduating a year apart.
• Ramsby scored at least one touchdown in the final 10 games of the 2014 season, and scored a touchdown in the final nine games of 2015. He has rushed for 1,916 career yards and scored 34 touchdowns thus far, including a team-high eight last year.
• Scales was a SI.com Second-Team All-American after recording 126 stops last year and was the Foster Farms Bowl Defensive Most Valuable Player. Scales entered 2017 ninth on Indiana's career list with 33.5 tackles for loss.
Georgia On Their Mind
• Indiana's roster includes 10 players from the state of Georgia. GS junior linebacker Tomarcio Reese and Indiana redshirt freshman Shaun Bonner both played at Colquitt County High.
Not Shai About Running
• Freshman quarterback Shai Werts has 54 rushing attempts through two games, including 31 against New Hampshire. No Georgia Southern player has had more rushing attempts in a game since Jerick McKinnon carried the rock 32 times in a 2013 game against The Citadel.
• Werts's two-game total is the most since McKinnon rushed a combined 63 times in back-to-back games during the 2013 season (31 vs. Samford on 10/5/13; 32 vs. The Citadel on 10/12/13).
• Werts would have carry the ball 37 times against Indiana to top the highest three-game total as McKinnon had a school-record 90 carries over a three-game span in 2013, as well.
• Three other GS players have had a combined 89 carries in a three-game stretch (Trey Hunter in 2003; Adrian Peterson two separate times in 2000). Peterson also had 88 carries in a three-game stretch in 1999 to round out the top-five stretches in program history.
• While there's a long ways to go, Werts is on pace to carry the ball 324 times over a 12-game regular season schedule, which would blow past the current school record of 290 carries by Chaz Williams in 2002. That total came in 14 games. Before 2002, postseason games were not included in NCAA final football stats and records. Peterson had several seasons with more than 290 carries when adding in the playoff games, but those officially do not count toward his season and career totals.
