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Conference Champions: 1935, 1936, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2001, 2006 RAIDERS FOOTBALL 47 All-Americans 11 Bowl Games 6 Freshman All-Americans 20 Conference Players of the Year 12 Conference Championships MIDDLE TENNESSEE (6-3; 5-1) vs UTEP (1-8; 1-4) ON THE AIR • • • Sat., 11/10/2018 2 PM CT Sun Bowl (51,500) El Paso, TX TELEVISION ESPN+ Andy Morgan (play-by-play) MIDDLE TENNESSEE UTEP QUICK HITTERS Trevor Vi atoe (analyst) BLUE RAIDERS MINERS Middle Tennessee’s 5-1 C-USA start is its best since joining the league in 2013. RADIO Team is averaging 227 yards rushing a game BLUE RAIDER NETWORK Chip Walters (play-by-play), 28th year over the last two contests. Wes Counts (analyst), 3rd year Brent Stocks ll has 24 wins as the QB at MT Wayne Groce (spo er), 38th year which ranks as the 4th most in school history THE BASICS Nashville: 102.5 FM and the most in the Rick Stocks ll era. Mid-state: 89.5 FM Record ...................6-3 (5-1) Record ...................1-8 (1-4) Local: 100.5 FM, 101.9 FM, 1450 AM Last Game........ 11/2/2018 Last Game........ 11/3/2018 In the last 22 home C-USA games, MT has a Na onal: Sirius: 975 (app and web player) vs WKU, 29-10 at Rice, W, 34-26 mark of 19-3 TuneIn App: Search Middle Tennessee Coach ........... Rick Stocks ll Coach ............... Dana Dimel Over the last six games, MT has outscored the Career Record: ........ 85-75 Career Record: ...........31-47 opposi on 82-42 in the second half Career Conf. Rec: ... 63-36 UTEP Record: ...............1-8 points 72 mes under Rick Stocks ll. The Blue The MT defense has three touchdowns in Raiders had 10 games of 30 or more points in STATISTICAL LEADERS 2018 to rank 7th na onally 2016 to set a new single-season high under Senior WR Patrick Smith has 40 recep ons Rushing .....Chaton Mobley Rushing ..............Q. Wadley Rick Stocks ll. The previous mark was nine 56 a , 326 yds, 3 TD 90 a , 475 yds, 5 TD which is a new single-season high for the in 2009. Passing ......Brent Stocks ll Passing ........... Kai Locksley former walk-on. His previous best season was Middle Tennessee’s 61 points scored against 189-280-5, 1946 yds, 17 TD ......... 68-131-4, 772 yds, 2 TD 2017 when he had 29 recep ons. Receiving .................. Ty Lee Receiving ........Warren Redix UTM went down as the most by the Blue Raid- 41 rec, 463 yds, 4 TD 29 rec, 378 yds, 0 TD WR Ty Lee has hauled in at least one recep- ers since scoring 77 in a win over FAU in 2016. Tackling ......R. Blankenship Tackling .......A.J. Hotchkins on in 35 straight games which is ed for the MT has been bowl eligible 10 mes in the last 71 tackles 91 tackles second longest streak in MT history and is the 13 years (7 straight years) and has reached a Sacks ................DQ Thomas Sacks ....................Mike Sota 9th longest current streak in the country. 5.0 sacks 4.5 sacks bowl game a school-record three straight years. INTs ................ Wesley Bush INTs ...................... 2 players In MT’s last 25 wins, it has averaged 508.2 The 2018 season is the 104th for Blue Raider 3 Intercep ons 1 Intercep on yards of total off ense and allowed 377.4. football and the 20th at the FBS level. S Wesley Bush leads the team with 3 inter- INSIDE THE SERIES cep ons and ranks 23rd na onally FBS HEAD COACHES SONS PLAYING FBS Overall ..................... 2-1 MT Most MT Pts ................... 48 MT is 31-15 all- me in C-USA play and is Coach (School) Son (School) In the Boro .....................2-0 Most UTEP Pts ............... 24 averaging 196.0 yards rushing per game. In El Paso ........................0-1 3 Points or Less .............0-1 Bill Clark (UAB) Jacob (UAB) Current Streak .............. W1 7 Points or Less ...........0-1 Middle Tennessee is 27-7 in its last 34 home Mike MacIntyre (Colorado) Jay (Colorado) Long Win Streak ...............1 Biggest Win .............. 31 pts games. Phillip Montgomery (Tulsa) Cannon (Tulsa In their last 54 conference games, the Blue Ken Niumatalolo (Navy) Ali’i (Utah) ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Raiders have a mark of 37-17. Gary Pa erson (TCU) Blake (TCU) Shipping Address ..................................1672 Greenland Drive Over the last 78 games, the Blue Raiders have Rick Stocksࢼ ll (MTSU) Brent (MTSU) Murfreesboro, TN 37132 come up with 80 intercep ons. The team had Dabo Swinney (Clemson) Will (Clemson) Phone ........................................................................615.898.2968 Bobby Wilder (ODU) Derek (ODU) Web site .........................................................GoBlueRaiders.com 15 picks in 2013 by eight diff erent players, 13 Associate AD/Communica ons ........................ Mark Owens in 2014, 17 in 2015, 11 in 2016 but just fi ve Email ............................................owens@goblueraiders.com in 2017. There have been 89 known players in Divi- Offi ce ....................................................................615.898.5057 sion I-A (FBS) history who have played for their Consecu ve Start Leader: Carlos Johnson Cell .........................................................................615.631.9520 head-coaching fathers in college. There are Twi er ...............................................................@MarkOwens5 (23). seven ac ve in 2018 with the Stocks ll com- Associate (secondary football) ...........................Tony S nne Under Rick Stocks ll, the Blue Raiders have bina on the only head coach and star ng QB. Assistant ......................................................................Eric Beovich been involved in 23 games that were decided Social Media Coord./Photographer ............ Brent Beerends in the fi nal minute of regula on or over me. Media Specialists/Video .................................Nathan Wallach The team is 13-10 in those games and have Video Intern ...............................................................Bailey White A RAIDER WIN WOULD ... Staff Writer ........................................................... Josh Vardaman won nine of the last 13. Interns ..........J. Johnson, B. English, T. Schiefelbein, H. Huntley Rick Stocks ll is third on the school’s all- me Be the 580th all- me for the program Students .......Tyler Lamb, Anthony Fiorella, Devin P. Grimes wins list with 85 victories. Give the Blue Raiders their fi rst-ever 6-1 start MT_FB @MTAthle cs @MT_FB In 160 games under Rick Stocks ll, the Blue in C-USA play Raiders are +13 in turnover margin. Give them at least 7 wins in a season for the BlueRaiderAthle cs GoBlueRaidersTV Middle Tennessee has scored 30 or more 4th straight year Conference Champions: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2001, 2006 CUSA STANDINGS VANDERBILT SECNA L, 7-35 S1 NASHVILLE, TN/VANDERBILT STADIUM/VU leads 16-3 East Division UT-MARTIN ESPN+ W, 61-37 Overall C-USA S8 MURFREESBORO, TN/FLOYD STADIUM/MT LEADS 21-7-1 Middle Tennessee 6-3 5-1 #3 GEORGIA ESPNews L, 7-49 FIU 6-3 4-1 S15 ATHENS, GA/SANFORD STADIUM/UGA LEADS 2-0 Marshall 5-3 3-2 Charlo e 4-5 3-2 FLORIDA ATLANTIC STADIUM/FB W, 25-24 MURFREESBORO, TN/FLOYD STADIUM/MT LEADS 12-4 FAU 4-5 2-3 S29 Old Dominion 2-7 1-5 MARSHALL CBS SN W, 34-24 WKU 1-8 0-5 O5 HUNTINGTON, WV/J. EDWARDS STADIUM/MU LEADS 5-3 FIU beIN L, 21-24 West Division O13 MIAMI, FL/R. SILVA STADIUM/MT LEADS 9-5 Overall C-USA CHARLOTTE (HC) ESPN3 W, 21-13 UAB 8-1 6-0 O20 MURFREESBORO, TN/FLOYD STADIUM/MT LEADS 3-0 Louisiana Tech 6-3 4-1 OLD DOMINION ESPN+ W, 51-17 North Texas 7-2 3-2 O27 NORFOLK, VA/BALLARD STADIUM/MT LEADS 3-0 Southern Miss 4-4 3-2 WKU CBS SN W, 29-10 UTSA 3-6 2-3 N2 MURFREESBORO, TN/FLOYD STADIUM/MT LEADS 35-32-1 UTEP 1-8 1-4 UTEP ESPN+ 2 PM Rice 1-9 0-6 N10 EL PASO, TX/SUN BOWL STADIUM/MT LEADS 2-1 KENTUCKY TBA TBA UPCOMING CUSA SCHEDULE N17 LEXINGTON, KY/KROGER FIELD/UK LEADS 2-0 UAB ESPN3 2 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 N24 MURFREESBORO, TN/FLOYD STADIUM/TIED 3-3 Charlo e at Marshall FIU at UTSA WKU at Florida Atlan c Rice at Louisiana Tech A LOOK AT THE SERIES Middle Tennessee at UTEP This will be just the fourth mee ng in a series COLLEGEPRESSBOX.COM North Texas at Old Dominion Southern Miss at UAB that began in 2013. The Blue Raiders own a CollegePressBox.com is the offi cial media slim 2-1 advantage in the series but are 0-1 in website for Conference USA football. Ac- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 El Paso. MT won the 2013 game in Murfrees- cess and download weekly game notes, FIU at Charlo e boro, 48-17, then fell to the Miners in El Paso opponent notes, quotes, depth charts, Florida Atlan c at North Texas Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss in 2014, 24-21. The Blue Raiders won last year complete fi nal game books, media guides, UTSA at Marshall at Floyd Stadium, 30-3. head shots, and more for the conference Middle Tennessee at Kentucky and each of its 14-member schools. VMI at Old Dominion Rice at LSU GOOD IN NOVEMBER The site also has a complete list of confer- UAB at Texas A&M Under Rick Stocks ll, the Blue Raiders have ence beat writers, radio broadcasters, and UTEP at WKU enjoyed success down the fi nal stretch of the much more. season in November. Over its last 24 games in Apply for access at www.collegepress- the month of November, the Blue Raiders are box.com/password. ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS 18-6 and have won 10 of its last 13.