This is it y'all, it is the real one, the end, the
be-all, winner take all, knock-down (the goalpost), drag-out (and ram 'em
through a team bus), Eagle Creek Water chugginest, place a crack within the
rockinest, most heatedly anticipated higher initiate work and tailgate seven
hours, complete best pairing OF ALL TIME within the Sun Belt this season.
Get the popcorn prepared.
Start Time: 7:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, Oct. 22
Location: Captain Kidd Brewer bowl, Boone, North
geographical area
TV: ESPNU
Radio: Georgia Southern here, App State here
Records: Georgia Southern (5-1, 3-0 Sun Belt), App State
(5-1, 2-0)
Forecast: Clear skies, sixty degrees at kickoff falling
to around fifty by game's finish
Appalachian State Outlook: The Mountaineers had
additional queries coming back into 2015 than their southern rivals, however
they've quickly place those away with a 5-1 begin. Last week's game
against ULM
looked to be a contest once App went down 17-14, instead they reeled off forty
two unreciprocated for an additional straightforward V.
You could say geographic region is Hot Hot Hot.
Like Georgia Southern, a P5 blowout stands against 5
massive wins against conference and lower-division foes.
Reputations prevail and casual follows would possibly
still think about the unfold once it involves App State. this can be currently
a run-first team. The Eagles lead the state in rushing; App is tenth. Exhibit
A: The Mountaineers rush fifty times last week, diode by dynamic back Marcux
Cox, whereas QB Taylor Lamb threw simply fifteen passes.
The powerful half is once they do pass it's extremely
effective. Lamb sports fifteen touchdowns against five interceptions with
nine.6 yards per try. Lamb are going to be trying to retaliate quite simply
last year's loss. His father, Bobby Lamb, quarterbacked the Furman Paladins to
a defeat against Georgia Southern within the 1985 I-AA national title game.
Lamb is additionally App's third-leading rusher with 234
yards on the bottom. Overall, the Mountaineers lead the conference with a pair
of,941 offensive yards, with the Eagles second at a pair of,791.
Defense has been a robust purpose for the Mountaineers to
mention the smallest amount. Exhibit B: They've allowed four touchdowns within
the last four games whereas grading 3 themselves (hat tip to our App State
author Thomas Sherrill for the info). App's D offers up simply 109 yards per
game and three.2 per carry, smart for eleventh within the nation. they're going
to want as of that Th night.
Other stuff: App State defensive back and team captain Doug
playwright was ejected from the ULM game for targeting. as a result of it
happened within the half he'll be out there. additional on it later. Elsewhere,
center Jesse Chapman is listed as probable.
Kidd Brewer bowl isn't a straightforward place to play.
whereas it will not be all that cold it'll be high within the mountains with a
deranged crowd all wearing black and prepared to pounce.
Georgia Southern Outlook: Head Coach Willie Fritz was
asked postgame regarding dashing for 507 yards against NM State. i could not
facilitate however laugh once his response enclosed, "that's troublesome
to try and do."
Understatement of the year. Then again, its become older
hat for the Eagles. They slashed App State for 408 last season and ran up quite
600 against Georgia State.
What Southern hasn't done well is balance. Quarterback
Kevin Ellison's throw to Wesley Fields last week was the primary Georgia
Southern passing score in additional than a year, that is unbelievable
considering the team's 8-2 record therein span. Fritz keeps vocation passes
trying to feature a replacement dimension, mostly to no avail.
But once you have Matt Breida, you do not really want to
pass. Watch him shut the gap on his quarterback to throw a block on this TD run:
Ellison ain't slow y'all.
On paper, App holds the sting on defense. Southern is
thirty ninth in total defense, whereas App ranks fifth. Let's hope (well,
betting on your perspective) that is not the distinction within the game.
Other stuff: 2 Eagle linebackers were ejected for targeting
against NMSU: Ironhead Gallon and William Bussey. as a result of their plays
happened within the last half, they're going to be out the primary 1/2 this
game. I will not get into my personal feelings that, however it makes fully no
sense and also the rule has to be revised.
Also, Senior safety Matt Dobson is questionable for the
sport.
Both the Eagles and Mountaineers sport a defender with 5
interceptions (Antonio Glover for GSU, Latrell chemist for App), tied for third
nationwide.
Is it the de facto Sun Belt title game? Let's place it this way:
These groups ar 19-2 in conference play since connection the Sun Belt. one in
every of those losses came once they compete one another last year.
Prediction: I
actually have no plan who's reaching to win this game and neither does one. it
is a competition and a dark game with 2 mostly untested programs.
That said, till one thing changes you have gotta go
together with the famed entity. Take the defensive champion Eagles and also the
points in what, apparently, could be a gentle upset.
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