2014 GEORGIA STATE FOOTBALL Game 4 GEORGIA STATE (1-2) at WASHINGTON (3-0)
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2014 GEORGIA STATE FOOTBALL Game 4 GEORGIA STATE (1-2) at WASHINGTON (3-0) If using against a Saturday, Sept. 20 • 6 p.m. ET • Pac-12 Network black background please convert ® to white Husky Stadium • Seattle , Wash. GAME COVERAGE: Television coverage is on the Pac-12 Network. FACTS WASHINGTON GEORGIA STATE Announcers are J.B. Long, Anthony Herron and Ashley Adamson. Every 2014 Records 3-0, 0-0 Pac-12 1-2, 0-1 SBC Georgia State game this season will be televised, including every Sun Belt Nickname Huskies Panthers Conference game on one of the ESPN platforms. Radio coverage is available on the Grady Health System Georgia State Location Seattle, Wash. Atlanta, Ga. Radio Network, including Atlanta flagship 1340 The Fan 3. Dave Cohen Enrollment 43,307 32,000 is in his 32nd season as the play-by-play voice of Georgia State athletics, Affiliation FBS FBS while Harper LeBel and Brandon Leak join him from the booth, and Sam Conference Pac-12 Sun Belt Crenshaw adds sideline coverage. Head Coach Chris Petersen Trent Miles Alma Mater UC Davis, 1988 Indiana State, 1987 THE KICKOFF: Georgia State’s first road trip of 2014 will be a trek across the country as the Panthers play at Washington Saturday at 6 p.m. at Record at School 3-0 (1st year) 1-14 (2nd year) Husky Stadium. Career Record 95-12 (9th year) 21-50 (7th year) Georgia State is 1-2 overall, 0-1 in the Sun Belt Conference after a 48-38 Series Record First meeting loss to Air Force in which the Panthers trailed 31-10 at the half but scored 28 second-half points as part of the highest combined scoring game in (Maine, Rhode Island) and Texas (UTSA, Houston, Texas State) and at West GSU history. Virginia. Washington is off to a 3-0 start under first-year head coach Chris Petersen, and the Huskies are coming off a 44-19 victory over Illinois. MILES, FOUR OTHERS WITH WASHINGTON TIES: Georgia State Georgia State quarterback Nick Arbuckle leads the Sun Belt in passing head coach Trent Miles spent three seasons (2005-07) as an assistant coach yards (373.7 pg) and total offense (382.3 pg), ranking in the NCAA top at Washington before earning his first head coaching position at Indiana five in both categories. As a team, the Panthers lead the league in passing State. Miles coached the Huskies’ running backs under then-head coach offense (eighth in NCAA) and are second in scoring (35.7) and total offense Tyrone Willingham and offensive coordinator Tim Lappano, who is now (523.7). Georgia State also averages 150.0 yards rushing per game. Miles’ wide receivers coach at Georgia State. Arbuckle’s top targets include wide receivers Robert Davis (16 Lappano was the Huskies’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks receptions, 202 yards) and LynQuez Blair (15 receptions, 212 yards, 3 TD) coach from 2005-08 before moving to the Detroit Lions. That Washington and tight end Joel Ruiz (15 receptions, 223, yards, 2 TD). Ruiz is tied for staff also included GSU secondary/special teams coach J.D. Williams (2005- second nationally among tight ends in receptions per game (5.0) and is 08), and quarterbacks coach Luke Huard, who was a graduate assistant at second in yards per game (74.3). UW in 2007-08. Huard’s brothers, former quarterbacks Damon and Brock, Linebacker Joseph Peterson leads the Georgia State defense, averaging are also familiar to Husky fans. GSU graduate assistant Ronnie Fouch 13.0 tackles per game to rank second in the Sun Belt and third nationally. lettered at Washington in 2008 and ‘09 as a backup quarterback behind He is GSU’s career tackling leader with 207. current NFL signal caller Jake Locker. Senior punter Matt Hubbard has a career average of 42.0 yards per kick, while place-kicker Wil Lutz is Georgia State’s career leader in points by ARBUCKLE SHARES SUN BELT AWARD: Nick Arbuckle tied the kicking with 102. Georgia State single-game record with 414 yards passing and accounted for three touchdowns in the Panthers’ 48-38 loss to Air Force. He was GEORGIA STATE VS. WASHINGTON: Georgia State is facing named Co-Offensive Player of the Week in the Sun Belt Conference (with Washington and a school from the Pac-12 for the first time. Washington is Georgia Southern quarterback Kevin Ellison), and he was also honored as one two opponents from the so-called Power Five conferences on the GSU Sun Belt Player of the Week by Athlon. schedule this year; the Panthers will play at Clemson Nov. 22. Georgia State Arbuckle completed 26 of 42 passes, including a pair of second-half is 0-4 vs. Power Five opponents, falling to Alabama twice, Tennessee and touchdown passes to LynQuez Blair, covering 15 and 13 yards. He added a West Virginia. one-yard touchdown run in the third quarter. The trip to Washington is Georgia State’s first venture west of the Rocky Arbuckle hooked up with Kyler Neal for a 73-yard completion that is Mountains and easily the longest road trip in the Panthers’ brief history. the sixth-longest pass play in school history. Previously, Georgia State has left the Southeast for games in New England The junior from Camarillo, Calif., led the Panthers to 549 yards of total 2014 SCHEDULE & RESULTS (All times Eastern) Date Opponent Time TV Site Series Result Aug. 27 ABILENE CHRISTIAN 7 p.m. ESPNU GEORGIA DOME 1-0 hW 38-37 Sept. 6 NEW MEXICO STATE 2 p.m. ESPN3 GEORGIA DOME 0-1 hL 31-34 Sept. 13 AIR FORCE 2 p.m. ESPN3 GEORGIA DOME 0-1 hL 38-48 Sept. 20 at Washington (rv/rv) 6 p.m. Pac-12 Seattle, Wash. 0-0 Oct. 4 at UL Lafayette 7 p.m. TBA Lafayette, La. 0-1 Oct. 11 ARKANSAS STATE (Homecoming) 2 p.m. TBA GEORGIA DOME 0-1 Oct. 18 at South Alabama TBA TBA Mobile, Ala. 0-1 Oct. 25 GEORGIA SOUTHERN TBA TBA GEORGIA DOME 0-0 Nov. 1 at Appalachian State TBA TBA Boone, N.C. 0-0 Nov. 8 at Troy 3 p.m. TBA Troy, Ala. 0-1 Nov. 22 at Clemson (22/24) TBA TBA Clemson, S.C. 0-0 Nov. 29 TEXAS STATE 2 p.m. TBA GEORGIA DOME 0-1 2014 GEORGIA STATE FOOTBALL NOTES, PAGE 2 GAME 4: GSU VS. WASHINGTON GENERAL INFORMATION offense, the second-highest total in school Even against Air Force, Arbuckle rallied the Full Name Georgia State University history. Panthers for 28 fourth-quarter points. Location Atlanta, GA TACKLES RECORD FOR JOE PETE: Junior WHAT A DEBUT FOR ARBUCKLE: Founded 1913 inside linebacker Joseph Peterson recorded 13 Quarterback Nick Arbuckle made an impres- Enrollment 32,000 tackles against Air Force to raise his career total sive debut in his first game in a Georgia State Nickname Panthers to a Georgia State-record 207. He surpassed uniform, leading the Panthers to a 38-37, come- Colors Blue & White the previous Panther mark of 199 by Robert from-behind win over Abilene Christian. The Ferguson. junior college transfer from Pierce (Calif.) College Affiliation NCAA Division I FBS The 6-0, 225-pounder is leading the Panthers completed 31 of 47 passes for 413 yards and Conference Sun Belt Conference in tackles for the third straight season, averaging four touchdowns and rallied the Panthers from a President Mark P. Becker 13.0 hits per game to rank second in the Sun Belt nine-point deficit in the final five minutes. After Director of Athletics Charlie Cobb Conference and third in the NCAA. In 2013 he hitting Joel Ruiz with a 12-yard TD pass with was also third in the Sun Belt with 9.4 tackles per 4:31 left. Arbuckle drove the Panthers 72 yards game, setting the GSU season record with 103 on 13 plays in the final 2:41, setting up Wil Lutz’s COACHING STAFF hits. winning field goal with 4 seconds left. Head Coach Trent Miles After earning honorable mention All-Sun More on Arbuckle’s debut: Assistant Head Coach/ Harold Etheridge Belt honors last fall, Peterson entered 2014 as a • Tied the school record with four touchdown Offensive Line preseason all-conference pick. passes, joining Ronnie Bell, Kelton Hill and Peterson opened the 2014 season with a Offensive Coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski Drew Little (twice); game-high 11 tackles against Abilene Christian, Defensive Coordinator Jesse Minter • Passed for 413 yards, one shy of the school plus a key interception in the fourth quarter that record of 414 yards by Drew Little vs. Old Wide Receivers Tim Lappano helped swing the momentum in Georgia State’s Dominion in 2010. Running Backs Brock Lough favor and set up the Panthers’ comeback. Against • Set the Georgia State record with 438 yards Quarterbacks Luke Huard New Mexico State, he collected 15 tackles--one of total offense; shy of the GSU single-game record that he set Defensive Line Shannon Jackson last year against Troy. • Converted two fourth downs on the game- Linebackers/Recruiting Coord. P.J. Volker winning drive, connecting with Joel Ruiz Secondary/Special Teams J.D. Williams HERE’S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON: Senior for 12 yards on 4th-and-5 from the GSU linebacker Jarrell Robinson became Georgia 24 and with LynQuez Blair for 24 yards on Graduate Assistants Ronnie Fouch (off.), 4th-and-19 from the GSU 27. Koby Kraemer (rec.) Tom Moak (off.), State’s career leader in tackles for loss with his Liam Smith (def.), Jay Volker (def.) tackle behind the line of scrimmage against Air • Covered the final 30 yards of the game- winning drive with his legs, rushing 13 yards Strength & Conditioning Ben Pollard Force.