Date: Saturday, Sept. 28Contest: Ga. Southern (1-2, 0-1) at Chattanooga (0-4, 0-0)

Time: 6 p.m.

Place: Finley Stadium in

Chattanooga

THE GAME: Georgia Southern holds a 14-1 advantage in the series with Chattanooga that started in 1984 … The Eagles have won five straight overall and six of seven in Chattanooga … UTC’s only win in the series was a 23-21 victory in 1996 in Chattanooga … GSU claimed the 2001 contest by posting a 70-7 victory in Statesboro … The Eagles are 4-1 in Finley Stadium with two wins coming in the I-AA national championship game in 1999 and 2000 … GSU has won 14 of its last 17 road games.

THE COACHES: Georgia Southern head coach Mike Sewak (Virginia ’81) ) is in his first season with the Eagles and has a record of 1-2 … He spent the last five seasons as the Eagles’ offensive coordinator, helping the club to a 62-10 record during that time … Chattanooga head coach Donnie Kirkpatrick (Lenoir-Rhyne ’82) is in his third season as head coach of the Mocs and has an all-time record of 8-18.

GAME NOTES: Georgia Southern, coming off a 14-7 home loss to Wofford last week, will travel to Chattanooga to face the Mocs . . . UTC faced its fourth non-conference opponent last week and fell to Gardner-Webb, 26-24, on a last-second field goal . . . This will be UTC’s SoCon opener . . . The Mocs are 0-4 for the first time since 1971 . . . Georgia Southern has the top rushing offense in I-AA, averaging 368.0 yards per game . . . UTC is ninth in the SoCon in rushing defense, allowing 228.8 yards per game . . . UTC’s Jeremy Grier is third in the SoCon in receptions per game at 5.5 . . . GSU’s Jermaine Austin leads the SoCon in rushing yards per game at 110.

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