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The Georgia Southern football team, now on a four-game winning streak, looks to continue its winning ways this Saturday as it travels to Troy, Alabama, to take on the Troy Trojans at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is set for 3:35 p.m. (ET)/2:35 p.m. (CT) and will be broadcast online through ESPN+. 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 9: Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019 • 3:35 PM (ET)/2:35 PM (CT) 
Location: Troy, Ala. (Veterans Memorial Stadium; 30,402)

Records:
Troy: 3-5, 1-3 SBC
Georgia Southern: 5-3, 3-1 SBC

Broadcast Information
Broadcast: ESPN+ (online) 
PBP: Matt Stewart; Analyst: Wayne Gandy

Radio: Georgia Southern Sports Network
PBP: Danny Reed; Analyst: Terry Harvin; Sidelines: Russ Brown

GS: GAME NOTES
TROY: GAME NOTES
GAME DAY PAGE

Inside The Series
Overall: 19th Meeting (Troy leads, 12-6 [7-3 in modern era]) • 3-7 Home (3-3 modern); 3-5 Away (3-1 modern)
Current Streak: Troy, Won 2
Last Meeting: Nov. 10, 2018 (L, 21-35) - Allen E. Paulson Stadium | Statesboro, Ga. 
Facts Maybe Only We Find Interesting: Georgia Southern and Troy have met 18 times on the gridiron with the Trojans holding a 12-6 lead in the series that dates back to 1934 … Outside linebackers coach Jeremy Rowell spent 15 seasons at Troy, including the final six as the defensive coordinator … From 2006-2010, the Trojans won the Sun Belt Conference title outright or shared the title each of those five seasons … Rowell also led Troy to a 19-3 regular season record as a starting quarterback in 1994 and 1995 … The last time the Eagles played at Troy, it was then interim head coach Chad Lunsford's first game at the helm … Cornerback Monquavion Brinson set a new Sun Belt Conference career record for passes defended with three pass break ups at App State and now has 37, moving past Blaise Taylor of Arkansas State, who had 36 from 2014-17 … Georgia Southern is the only FBS program that has six different players who have recorded a 100-yard rushing game this season: Wesley Kennedy III, J.D. King, Matt LaRoche, Justin Tomlin, Shai Werts and Logan Wright … Junior Shai Werts became the seventh player in Eagle history to rack up 2,000 yards passing and 2,000 yards rushing in a career.

Countdown to Kickoff
10: Georgia Southern and Troy have met 10 times in the Eagles' modern era (since 1982) with Troy leading 7-3 in the span. The Eagles have won four of the past six games, however.
9: Nine different players have scored at least one touchdown for the Eagles this season.
8: Troy won all eight contests in the series between 1934-1941.
7: Wesley Kennedy III has seven rushing touchdowns, and eight total, in the four games he's played this season. He's also rushed for more than 115 yards in each of the past three games and has become the first Eagle with three straight games of two+ rushing touchdowns since Matt Breida had four straight in 2015.
6: Georgia Southern has scored a touchdown six different ways this season: rush, pass, interception return, fumble return, punt return and blocked field goal return.
5: Monquavion Brinson (3) and Kindle Vildor (2) combined for five pass break ups at Appalachian State.  Brinson has 31 for his career (4th at GS) while Vildor has 23 (T-6th at GS).
4: Shai Werts is now fourth all-time in Sun Belt Conference history for career rushing yards by a quarterback with 2,016 yards. The record of  2,843 is held by Louisiana's Michael Desormeaux (2005-08).
3: Eagles' outside linebackers coach Jeremy Rowell lost just three games as Troy's starting quarterback in 1994 and 1995.
2: Georgia Southern has won its past two games in the state of Alabama, Montgomery for last year's bowl game and Mobile for a game at South Alabama earlier this season.
1: The 2017 game against Troy was Chad Lunsford's first game as the Eagles' interim head coach.
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ULM - Saturday, Nov. 16
Allen E. Paulson Stadium; TBA

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