GAME PREVIEW: Eagles Step Out of Conference to Face Aggies
10/21/2019 11:00:00 AM | Football
Georgia Southern to celebrate Homecoming this Saturday
It's Homecoming Week for the Georgia Southern football team as it steps out of conference to host New Mexico State at Allen E. Paulson Stadium Saturday. Kickoff is set for 3:05 p.m. and will be broadcast online on ESPN3. The game will also be available via radio on the Georgia Southern Sports Network. Here's all you need to know about the game:
Game 7: Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019 • 3:05 PM
Location: Statesboro, Ga. (Allen E. Paulson Stadium; 25,000)
HOMECOMING PRESENTED BY INTERNATIONAL DIAMOND CENTER
TEACHER APPRECIATION GAME
Records:
New Mexico State: 0-7
Georgia Southern: 3-3
Broadcast Information
Broadcast: ESPN3 (Online)
PBP: Greg Talbott; Analyst: Danny Waugh; Sidelines: Amy Zimmer
Radio: Georgia Southern Sports Network
PBP: Danny Reed; Analyst: Terry Harvin; Sidelines: Russ Brown
GS: GAME NOTES
NMSU: GAME NOTES
GAME DAY PAGE
GAME DAY ROSTERS (Thursday)
Inside The Series
Overall: Sixth Meeting (GS leads, 4-1) • 1-1 Home; 3-0 Away
Current Streak: GS, Won 1
Last Meeting: Oct. 20, 2018 (W, 48-31) - Aggie Memorial Stadium | Las Cruces, N.M.
Facts Maybe Only We Find Interesting: Georgia Southern leads the all-time series with New Mexico State 4-1 … The last time a game in the series was played in Statesboro, the Aggies picked up their first win in the series with 35-27 victory … This is the final game in a two-game, non-conference series that started in 2018 after the Aggies left the Sun Belt Conference following the 2017 season … The Eagles are averaging 37.8 points per game against the Aggies in the series … Neither team rosters a player from the other teams' state although Georgia Southern's J.D. King and New Mexico State's Chance Cook were teammates at Oklahoma State … Additionally, GS's Emory McKenzie and NMSU's Michael Bowe Jr. were teammates in 2017 at City College of San Francisco … Georgia Southern is 28-8 on Homecoming in the modern era after beating South Alabama last season … Georgia Southern has won 23 straight games at home against a non-conference opponent (including vacated wins and FCS Playoff games) dating back to a Nov. 18, 2006 overtime loss to end the season against Central Arkansas.
10: The Eagles have won 10 of the 11 games in which they have scored 30 or more points under head coach Chad Lunsford.
9: Nine defensive players have started all six games thus far for the Eagles as opposed to just four on the offensive side who hove started every game thus far.
8: The Eagles have lost just eight previous Homecoming games in 36 previous years.
7: Shai Werts needs 134 yards rushing to become the seventh player in Georgia Southern football history to rack up 2,000 yards passing and 2,000 yards rushing in a career.
6: Trailing 14-3 last year against NMSU, Georgia Southern went on to score touchdowns on its next six drives to take a 45-17 lead in the third quarter.
5: Georgia Southern and Coastal Carolina combined to go just 9-for-28 on 3rd downs in the game but were a combined 5-for-5 on 4th down, including 3-for-3 in the overtime periods.
4: Four of Georgia Southern's touchdowns have been 25 yards or longer.
3: Georgia Southern played just its third triple-overtime game in program history last week. The Eagles are now 9-6 all-time in overtime, winners of six of their past seven overtime games. The school record for overtime games in a season is four, coming in 2008.
2: Georgia Southern has failed to force at least one turnover in just two of its past 22 games.
1: The Coastal Carolina game marked the first time this season Tyler Bass hasn't been the team's leading scorer. That honor went to Wesley Kennedy III, who scored 12 points on two touchdowns.
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at No. 22 Appalachian State - Thursday, Oct. 31
Kidd Brewer Stadium; 8 PM
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