BLAZER FOOTBALL ® VALDOSTAVALDOSTA STATESTATE GAME 11 • NOVEMBER 30, 2019 VALDOSTA STATE BLAZER FOOTBALL GAME NOTES 2019 Schedule/Results #1 Blazers Battle #20 West Florida in 9/7 at Albany State W, 38-3 9/14 OHIO DOMINICAN W, 48-21 NCAA Second Round Saturday Afternoon 9/21 #20 WEST ALABAMA* W, 44-27 9/28 at Shorter* W, 44-7 Game #11 10/5 MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE* W,42-17 Date: November 30, 2019 Valdosta, Ga. 10/12 at Delta State* W, 34-13 Location: Time: 1 p.m. 10/19 FLORIDA TECH* (Homecoming) W, 55-28 Stadium: Bazemore-Hyder (10,500) 10/26 at North Greenville* W, 25-20 11/9 #20 WEST FLORIDA* W, 26-21 BLAZERS ARGONAUTS Gameday Social Media 11/16 at West Georgia* W, 42-14 On Twitter: @BlazerAthletics 10-0, 8-0 GSC 9-2, 7-1 GSC Facebook: @ValdostaStateBlazers 11/30 #20 WEST FLORIDA - NCAA 2nd Rd. 1 p.m. In the Polls In the Polls Live Stats: www.vstateblazers.com 12/7 NCAA Quarterfinal Round TBA AFCA/D2Football 1/1 AFCA/D2Football 20/19 12/14 NCAA Semifinal Round TBA Coaches Coaches Where to Listen / Watch 12/21 NCAA Championship (McKinney, Texas) TBA Head Coach Gary Goff Head Coach Pete Shinnick Radio: 92.1 FM WDDQ School Record 10-0 (1st) School Record 31-17 (4th) TV: None Career Record 48-50 (9th) Career Record 200-97 (26th) Internet Radio: talk921.com Goff vs. UWF 1-0 vs. VSU 1-4 Video: vstateblazers.com Blazers On The Air Rushing Att/Yds/TDs Rushing Att/Yds/TDs Jamar Thompkins 86/678/7 Anthony Johnson 106/468/4 Series History Series Record: VSU leads 4-0 Seth McGill 94/524/8 Shomari Mason 54/416/5 Radio • TALK 92.1 FM Streaks: VSU won last four meetings Passing Comp/Att/Yds/TDs Passing Comp/Att/Yds/TDs Last Five: VSU, 4-0 Spencer Van Horn, PXP Rogan Wells 153/206/1771/15 Austin Reed 182/319/2604/27 Wade Beale, color analyst Last Ten: VSU, 4-0 Ivory Durham 16/30/0/2 Receiving Rec./Yds/TDs First Meeting: VSU 40-28 (10/24/16) Receiving Rec./Yds/TDs Quentin Randolph 32/674/7 Last Meeting: VSU 26-21 (11/09/19) Brian Saunds 44/729/5 Tate Lehtio 55/653/3 Last VSU win: 26-21 (11/09/19) Streaming Audio/Video Lio’undre Gallimore 30/419/4 Tackles TT/TFL/Sacks/INT Last UWF win: None Available from the football Tackles TT/TFL/Sacks/INT Chan Ferguson 64/5.5/05/1 Lagest VSU win: 48-21 (11/03/18) schedule at www.vstateblazers.com Cory Roberts 36/1.5/0/4 Trent Archie 64/9/5.5/0 Largest UWF win: None Live Stats • www.vstateblazers.com Available from football schedule on vstateblazers.com OPENING DRIVE SETTING THE SCENE Blazers On The Internet The top-ranked Valdosta State football team hosts No. 20 West Florida for the second time in four WWW.VSTATEBLAZERS.COM weeks in the second round of the 2019 NCAA Division II Football Playoffs Saturday at 1 p.m. at Baze- more-Hyder Stadium. VSU won the previous meeting on Nov. 9, 2019, 26-21. The official website of Valdosta State Athletics is where ROAD TO MCKINNEY STARTS HERE you can find everything relating to the Blazer football VSU begins its 2019 NCAA Division II playoffs at home with Gulf South Conference rival West Florida team. There, you can find schedules, results, rosters, in the second round of the playoffs. This marks the first time since Nov. 28, 2015, in a 27-20 loss to West Georgia in Carrollton, VSU has played a conference foe in the playoffs. The 2015 game also bios, statistics and game notes always will be up to was in the second round. VSU is 3-7 all-time in the NCAA Tournament against teams from the GSC date. and 1-3 against current members of the GSC. The Blazers have won four-straight playoff games, each coming last season en route to the program’s fourth national championship. VSU is 26-12 all-time in the NCAA Championship with titles in 2004, 2007, 20102 and 2018. The 26 wins in the FACEBOOK/@VALDOSTASTATEBLAZERS NCAA postseason ranks fifth-most all-time in NCAA Division II and third-most among current D2 Fans and media can stay up-to-date institutions. If the Blazers were to beat West Florida, they would host the winner of the No. 2-seed with releases, news and photo gallleries Lenoir-Rhyne vs. Carson-Newman game on Saturday, Dec. 7. The winner of that game would then await to see if it would host the Dec. 14 National Semifinal round matchup as the four remaining on the official facebook fan page of teams are reseeded for the Dec. 14 games. The 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship is Valdosta State Athletics scheduled for Dec. 21 and broadcast on ESPNU. STREAKS VSU won its Gulf South Conference record 25th-straight game, with a 42-14 win at West Georgia on TWITTER/BLAZERATHLETICS Nov. 16, for its fourth undefeated season in school history and the eighth Gulf South Conference ti- Followers of the blazerathletics twitter tle. Along with the 255-straight wins, VSU has won 13-straight home games with the win over West Florida on Nov. 9. The 13-straight home victories is second-most currently in NCAA Division II behind feed will have access to in-game up Lenoir-Rhyne, while the Blazers have won 21-straight regular season wins for third all-time in the GSC. dates,scores from games, along with North Alabama (1993-96) is second with 22-straight regular season wins, while VSU has the most all- breaking news and schedule updates. time regular season wins in a row in GSC history with 35 from 2000-03. LAST TIME OUT FOR THE BLAZERS VSU won its eighth Gulf South Conference title with a 42-14 win at West Georgia on Nov. 16 as the team rushed for five touchdowns, tying its season-high. VSU tallied 325 yards on the ground, INSTAGRAM/VALDOSTASTATEATHLETICS marking the fourth time of rushing for over 300 yards in a game this season. Sophomore running Fans can access social media content, back Jamar Thompkins had 129 yards on the ground on nine carries with three rushing touchdowns graphics and more through Instagram for to lead the team. Defensively, VSU held UWG to just 16 yards rushing and 390 total yards, while stopping the Wolves four times in the red zone. Sophomore defensive lineman Thomas Incoom and all of Valdosta State athletics at the above sophomore linebacker Jackson Bull were all over the backfield as they combined for 4.5 sacks for link. 32 yards and five tackles for loss for 33 yards and two forced fumbles in the game. VSU tallied a season-high six sacks in the game for 37 yards and seven tackles for loss for 39 yards. GAME 11 VS #20 WEST FLORIDA • NOVEMBER 30, 2019 1 BLAZER FOOTBALL ® 2019 Schedule/Opponents/Highlights at Albany State The Blazers scored on their first four possessions for a 28-3 lead The Blazers when . In Under at hatime and blaked the Golden Rams in the second half for a 2019 Goff September 1 38-3 win in the season-opener. VSU quarterback Rogan Wells Following a loss 0-0 0-0 Albany, Ga. was 23 of 26 passing for 215 yards and two touchdowns as he At home 5-0 5-0 W, 38-3 was named GSC Player of the Week. Wells’ 88.4 percent compel- On the road 5-0 5-0 tion percentage marked the fifth-best all-time in program history. Neutral site 0-0 0-0 Against GSC Opponents 7-0 7-0 OHIO DOMINICAN VSU used a reverse pass from backup quarterback Ivory Durham vs. Non-Conference Opponents 2-0 2-0 vs. Ranked teams 2-0 2-0 September 14 for a 58-yard touchdown pass on the first play from scrimmage in a 48-21 win over Ohio Dominican in the 2019 home-opener. VSU vs. In-State teams 3-0 3-0 Valdosta, Ga. dominated the game to the tune of a 587-223 yard advantage in In the NCAA Playoffs 0-0 0-0 W, 48-21 total offense, as VSU won its school-record 17th-straight game. On natural grass 2-0 2-0 On artificial turf 8-0 8-0 In day games 1-0 1-0 In the first matchup of ranked teams, the Blazers forced five turn- In home day games 1-0 1-0 #20 WEST ALABAMA overs and used a pick-six to pull away from West Alabama for a In road day games 0-0 0-0 September 21 44-27 lead. Sophomore Aaron Dawson had the pick-six, while In night games 8-0 8-0 Valdosta, Ga. junior quarterback Rogan Wells passed for two scores, ran for In neutral site games 0-0 0-0 one and caught one on the Philly Special pass from junior wide In August 0-0 0-0 W, 44-27 receiver Brian Saunds. In September 4-0 4-0 In October 4-0 4-0 VSU tallied a school-record 446 yards on the ground as sopho- In November 2-0 2-0 at Shorter mores Jamar Thompkins and Ivory Durham each rushed for over In December 0-0 0-0 September 28 100 yards, while the VSU “D” held Shorter to just 106 yards of Leading after 1st quarter 8-0 8-0 Rome, Ga.