Missouri State Game Notes 2020-21 Game Notes Rick Kindhart Director of Athletics Communications Office: (417) 836-4585 MISSOURI STATE Cell: (417) 849-5865 Email: [email protected] 2020-21 BEARS SCHEDULE MISSOURI STATE AT CENTRAL ARKANSAS GAME 2 SEPTEMBER Sat. 12 at (5) Oklahoma SoonerSports.TV ................L, 0-48 DATE: Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020 Sat. 26 at (11) Central Arkansas ..................... 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. (Central) OCTOBER LOCATION: First Security Field at Estes Stadium (9,500) Sat. 17 (11) Central Arkansas (HC) ..............7:00 p.m. Conway, Arkansas SPRING GAMES SERIES: Series tied, 4-4 TBA at South Dakota* ........................................ TBA Last Meeting: MSU 33, UCA 31 (9/20/14) TBA Youngstown State* ...................................TBA TV: ESPN3 (John Liddle, Shea Walker) TBA at North Dakota* ......................................... TBA RADIO: KWTO 101.3 FM | MSU Bears Radio Network TBA Southern Illinois* ......................................TBA Missouri State #11 Central Ark. (Art Hains, Dennis Heim) TBA at Indiana State* ......................................... TBA BEARS BEARS TBA North Dakota State* .................................TBA LIVE STATS: UCASports.com TBA Illinois State* .............................................TBA 0-1 1-1 STICKETS: TicketReturn.com | (501) 852-2234 TBA at Northern Iowa* ....................................... TBA * Missouri Valley Football Conference games (order to be determined) FOLLOW THE BEARS Home games (bold) at Robert W. Plaster Stadium, Springfield All times Central and subject to change. @MoStateFootball MissouriStateBears.com /MissouriStBears Valley-Football.org SERIES HISTORY /MoStateFootball #MSUBears | #BearsUnite Missouri State Record vs. Central Arkansas ..................4-4 at Home ......................................................................3-2 at Conway ..................................................................1-2 FIRST AND TEN First Meeting ........................9/24/37 (at Springfield), L 0-26 ♦ Missouri State continues its three-game fall slate on Saturday when it travels to Conway, Ark., to take on UCA Last Meeting ........................ 9/20/14 (at Conway), W 33-31 (1-1) at 7 p.m. in the first of two meetings this season between the two teams. ♦ Over the last 15 seasons, Missouri State has accumulated eight wins when allowing 30 or more points. Two STATS FCS TOP 25 POLL of those wins have come over UCA -- first with a 42-38 win at Plaster Stadium (9/22/07) and then later with a 1. North Dakota State (147) .......................0-0 3675 last-second field goal clinching a 33-31 win at Estes Stadium (9/20/14) in the most-recent meeting. 2. James Madison .......................................0-0 3411 ♦ In the last meeting between MSU and UCA at Estes Stadium (9/20/14), Marcelo Bonani’s 53-yard field goal 3. Northern Iowa .........................................0-0 3269 as time expired lifted the visitors to a 33-31 victory. Missouri State accumulated 593 yards of total offense in the 4. Weber State ...........................................0-0 3198 contest, the club’s second-highest total over the last seven seasons (624 vs. Indiana State, 10/28/17). 5. South Dakota State ..............................0-0 2911 ♦ The Bears have 3 true freshmen players from the state of Arkansas -- P.J. Hall (S, Little Rock, Ark.), Bryant 6. Montana State ........................................0-0 2884 Ullrich (ILB, Harrison, Ark.) and Hunter Wood (WR, Springdale, Ark.). 7. Montana ..................................................0-0 2753 ♦ Jordan Murray (Jr., Lee’s Summit, Mo.) has recorded a pass reception in 22 consecutive games, tied for the 8. Villanova .................................................0-0 2499 fifth-longest streak in program history. In 2018, Murray broke the Bears freshman receiving record with 33 catches 9. Illinois State ..........................................0-0 2471 for 378 yards while earning FCS Freshman All-America honors. Murray caught 24 passes for 280 yards last 10. Kennesaw State .....................................0-0 2178 season with a team-high 5 touchdown catches. 11. Central Arkansas ..................................1-1 2093 ♦ Lorenzo Thomas (Sr., Jasper, Texas) currently ranks 18th on Missouri State’s career receiving yards list 12. Sacramento State ....................................0-0 2085 13. Austin Peay .............................................0-1 2030 (1,077) and needs 73 yards to catch Tyler Currie (2017-19) at the No. 17 spot. Thomas now has 89 receptions in 14. Nicholls State ..........................................0-0 1392 33 career games. 15. Furman ....................................................0-0 1239 ♦ Missouri State is a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference which has produced eight of the last 16. Wofford ....................................................0-0 1089 nine national champions at the NCAA Division I FCS level. The MVFC has five teams ranked in the FCS presea- 17. Albany ....................................................0-0 825 son Top 25 -- including four of the top nine -- with two additional teams receiving votes. 18. Eastern Washington ...............................0-0 817 ♦ The Bears have been one of the least-penalized teams in the FCS the last four years in a row. Last season, 19. North Carolina A&T ................................0-0 809 Missouri State was flagged 59 times for 496 yards (11 games), which ranked 19th and 17th, respectively among 20. New Hampshire ......................................0-0 759 all FCS programs. In terms of number of times penalized per game, MSU previously ranked 18th nationally in 21. Southeastern Louisiana ..........................0-0 652 2018 (4.91), 7th in 2017 (3.45), and 7th in 2016 (4.36). 22. Sam Houston State .................................0-0 597 ♦ Defensive lineman Eric Johnson (Sr., Plainfiled, Ill.) and safety Titus Wall (Sr., Plano, Texas) have appeared 23. Monmouth ................................................0-0 577 in 34 consecutive games for the Bears to lead the squad, while wide receiver Damoriea Vick (Jr., Oklahoma City, 24. Southern Illinois ...................................0-0 568 Okla.) has made a team-high 22 consecutive starts. 25. Southeast Missouri State .......................0-0 499 ♦ Missouri State started 5 freshmen in the season opener at Oklahoma, including a pair of true freshmen -- Preseason poll (8/25/20). Missouri State opponents in bold. Kellen Porter (RB, St. Louis, Mo.) and Grant Goodson (OL, Norman, Okla.). Likewise, the Bears starting rotation Others Receiving Votes: Jacksonville State (357), Florida A&M at OU included 4 transfers -- Jaden Johnson (RFr., QB, Memphis, Tenn.), Isaiah Sayles (DE, San Antonio, (301), Citadel (283), Central Connecticut State (200), Towson Texas), I.K. Ahumibe (DT, Cerritos, Calif.) and Jeremy Webb (CB, East Mims, Fla.). Johnson was the first MSU (199), Dartmouth (195), Yale (193), Delaware (193), Princeton freshman to start at QB since 2011, while Webb snagged an interception against the Sooners in his Bears debut. (143), San Diego (104), North Dakota (66), South Carolina State ♦ In 2019, linebacker Tyler Lovelace (Sr., Lee’s Summit, Mo.) ranked 3rd nationally with 3 fumble recoveries. In (25), Alcorn State (22), Houston Baptist (19), Richmond (18), his MSU career, Lovelace now has 5 total recoveries which puts him two away from breaking into the Bears’ top Chattanooga (16), Holy Cross (15), Elon (15), UIW (15), UT Martin (14), Youngstown State (12), Portland State (12), McNeese (10), 10 in career fumble takeaways. UC Davis (9), Maine (7), Duquesne (5), Charleston Southern (4), ♦ Grant Burkett (RFr., Allen, Texas) made his MSU debut with a 40.1 punting average at Oklahoma on 9 Eastern Kentucky (2). attempts. His long for the day was a 50-yarder on the fourth punt of his collegiate career. ♦ With 151 wins since 2001, Central Arkansas is the winningest college football team in the state of Arkansas in that span, at any level. UCA’s best outing was an 11-3 record in 2005 when the Bears reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Playoffs and tied the school record for victories. They won 10 Division I games en route to a 10-3 record in 2016, including an FCS Playoff victory vs. Illinois State, and had another 10-2 season in 2017. Game 2 - Missouri State at Central Arkansas Sept. 26, 2020 Missouri State Game Notes MISSOURI STATE QUICK FACTS OFFENSE TWO DEEP Missouri State University Pos. No. Name Ht. Wt. Yr. Exp. Hometown Notes Founded ....................................................................................1905 LT 79 Daniel Allen* 6-5 300 Sr. 1L Miami, Okla. Started 12 straight G, including 6 straight at LT Location ....................................................................Springfield, Mo. 76 Jake Swope 6-7 290 RFr. 1SQ West Plains, Mo. Returning squad member | redshirted in 2019 Address ............................................................ 901 S. National Ave. .................................................................Springfield, MO 65897 LG 78 Charles Carter* 6-5 305 Sr. 1L/4SQ Belton, Mo. 5th-year squadman | 3 career starts (1 in 2019) Enrollment (Fall 2019) ............................................................26,001 50 Paul Sogialofa 6-5 325 Jr. TR Pago Pago, Samoa Transfer from Modesto (Calif.) JC University Website ................................................MissouriState.edu OC 72 Derek Kohler** 6-3 300 Jr. 2L/3SQ Platte City, Mo. Has started