WEEK 10: MURRAY STATE • NOV.UT 1 • ROY STEWARTMARTIN STADIUM 4-5 OVERALL • 3-3 OVC FOOTBALL 2014 Week 10: UT MARTIN AT MURRAY STATE (4-5, 3-3) (3-5, 1-3) ROY STEWART STADIUM • MURRAY, KY. NOV. 1, 2014 • 1 p.m. CST SIDE-BY-SIDE stat comparison UTM ALL-TIME VS. MSU BROADCAST INFORMATION Murray State leads 35-17-1 Television: OVC Digital Network Last Meeting .......................Nov. 2, 2013 Game Result ...............@UTM 45, MSU 17 OVCDigitalNetwork.com Streak .......................................UTM W3 26.8 Points/Game 38.2 First Meeting......................Oct. 17, 1924 Radio: Skyhawk Radio Network (WCMT 101.3 FM) 22.1 First Downs/Gm 23.3 UTM vs. MSU in Murray ............... 7-19-1 Play-by-Play: Tom Britt 190.4 Rushing Yds/Gm 174.6 UTM vs. MSU in Martin ..................10-16 Color: Chris Brinkley 221.1 Passing Yds/Gm 281.0 PLAYER TO WATCH 411.6 Total Off ense/Gm 455.6 Sideline: John Abel #24 Abou Toure 17.2 Kick Return Avg. 22.1 RB • Framingham, Mass. HEAD COACHES 5.2 Punt Return Avg. 14.5 Toure carried the UTM Head Coach MSU Head Coach 38.0 Net Punting Avg. 34.4 ball 13 times for 114 yards (8.8 yard average) Jason Simpson Chris Hatcher 7-84 INT-Return Yds 4-75 and scored a pair of Southern Miss, 1995 Valdosta State, 1995 touchdowns in the big 18-10 Fumbles-Lost 16-9 37-7 win over Austin Career: 56-44 (9th yr.) Career: 121-53 (15th yr.) 61.1 Penalty Yds/Gm 60.5 Peay last Saturday. It was At UTM: Same At MSU: 27-26 (5 yrs.) his fi fth career 100-plus 31:35 Time of Poss./Gm 20:55 yard outing and third of 2014 SCHEDULe the season, as he also 48-122 (39%) 3rd Down Conv. 49-112 (44%) accomplished the feat against Cumberland (123 August 9-17 (53%) 4th Down Conv. 5-14 (36%) yards) and Tennessee 17-115 Sacks By-Yards 19-90 Tech (career-high 128 30 at Kentucky L 59-14 yards). 29-35 (83%) Red Zone Scoring 25-33 (76%) Despite the fact that September Toure spent last season as 24-35 (69%) Red Zone TD 20-33 (61%) a backup, he became the 24th UT Martin player to 6 at Central Arkansas L 26-24 reach the 1,000 career rushing yard mark on Oct. 11 CUMBERLAND W 63-7 18 at Tennessee State. He now has 1,161 career SETTING THE STAGE rushing yards in 20 games with the Skyhawks. 20 EASTERN KENTUCKY* L 49-24 27 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI* L 31-27 •Th e last time these two teams met in Murray, the Skyhawks claimed a 66-59 win in one of the wildest Ohio Valley Conference games in recent memory. Anchored by quarterbacks Derek Carr (UT Martin) and Casey October Brockman (Murray State), the two teams set an OVC record for combined points in a conference game. Carr established a new NCAA Football Championship Subdivision record with a passing effi ciency rating of 243.78 4 at Jacksonville State* L 38-14 aft er going 42-for-46 for 560 yards and seven touchdowns, while Brockman set an OVC record with eight 9 TENNESSEE TECH* W 17-10 touchdown passes aft er going 45-for-67 for 537 yards. 18 at Tennessee State* W 21-16 •UT Martin has won eight of the last nine in this series since 2005, including three of the last four in Roy 25 AUSTIN PEAY* (HC) W 37-7 Stewart Stadium (the only loss coming in 2010). Skyhawk head coach Jason Simpson is 7-1 against the Racers, as his teams have averaged 49.3 points per game in those eight contests. Under Simpson, UT Martin has tallied November three of the program’s eight highest scoring games against Murray State (76 points in 2007, 66 points in 2012 and 1 at Murray State* 1 p.m. 63 points in 2008). 8 at Mississippi State 3 p.m. •Th e Skyhawks enter the game as winners of three straight and will try for their fi rst four-game winning streak 22 at Eastern Illinois* 12 p.m. since Oct. 6 through Nov. 3, 2012. UT Martin has had seven winning streaks of at least three games since joining the FCS ranks in 1992 - six of which have occurred under coach Jason Simpson. *OVC Contest •UT Martin is coming off a big 37-7 home victory over Austin Peay last weekend. Th e win - combined with All Times CST and Subject to Change victories over Tennessee Tech and Tennessee State in the previous two weeks - earned the Skyhawks the 2014 Sgt. York Trophy, which is awarded to the team with the best record in the quadrangular series against OVC schools located in Tennessee. Dylan Favre (season-high 205 passing yards and two touchdowns off the bench) and Abou Toure (114 rushing yards, two touchdowns) guided UT Martin off ensively while Preseason All-American Tony FOOTBALL CONTACTS Bell’s game-high 12 tackles and two sacks paced the Skyhawk defense. Ryne Rickman • Sports Information Director (731) 881-7632 • [email protected] •Murray State set a single-game school scoring record with its 86-29 win over Division-II opponent Kentucky Alex Boggis • Asst. Sports Information Director Wesleyan. Th e Racers piled up 720 yards of total off ense (408 rushing, 312 passing) and scored 45 unanswered points in the second half en route to the victory. Th e highest scoring off ense in the league is headed by quarterback (731) 881-7694 • [email protected] KD Humphries, who set an OVC record for completions (48) against Tennessee Tech and threw six touchdowns Tom Via • Sports Information Intern against Southeast Missouri earlier this season. Meanwhile, the Racer defense boasts Jonathan Jackson, the OVC’s (731) 881-7694 • [email protected] top tackler with 10.9 stops per game. WEEK 10: MURRAY STATE • NOV. 1 • ROY STEWART STADIUM 4-5 OVERALL • 3-3 OVC SKYHAWK TIDBITS WEEKLY TELECONFERENCE UTMSports.com. Th e site features updated FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING During the 2014 regular season, a weekly schedules, rosters, player information, scores and All three players who scored touchdowns for UT teleconference featuring the league’s head coaches statistics. Th e Skyhawks can be found on social Martin against Tennessee State found the endzone will be held every Tuesday morning at 10 CST. For media sites: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with for the fi rst time in their careers. Reuben Duckworth information on how to access the call, please contact the username UTMSports. A new Twitter gameday had a 10-yard run for a score, Keith Jones had a 42- Kyle Schwartz in the OVC Office (615-690-6685 or account has also been launched (@UTM_Gameday). yard interception return for a touchdown and Corey [email protected]). Rogers hauled in a seven-yard touchdown reception. SKYHAWKS IN PRINT Call Opens .......................................... 9:55 a.m. Th e name of our institution is the University of HISTORICAL DEFENSIVE FEAT Chris Hatcher, Murray State ....................10:00 Tennessee at Martin and if abbreviated, should be Th e Skyhawks have held an Ohio Valley Watson Brown, Tennessee Tech ..............10:07 referred to as UT Martin. Th e University of Tennessee Conference opponent to 16 points or less in back-to- Kim Dameron, Eastern Illinois ...............10:14 at Martin should be used as the fi rst reference in a back games, marking the fi rst time that feat has been John Grass, Jacksonville State ..................10:21 news story. UT Martin should be used in subsequent accomplished since the fi nal two games of the 2010 Tom Matukewicz, SE Missouri ................10:28 references and UTM is acceptable in headlines. season (UT Martin defeating Austin Peay 28-12 on Kirby Cannon, Austin Peay .....................10:35 Tennessee-Martin, UT-Martin, UT or Martin Nov. 6, UT Martin defeating Tennessee State 37-0 on Jason Simpson, UT Martin ......................10:42 should never be used. Th e description Skyhawks Nov. 13). Rod Reed, Tennessee State .......................10:49 should be used to represent all UT Martin athletic Dean Hood, Eastern Kentucky ................10:56 teams. Hawks should never be used. BELL BECOMES PROGRAM’S All-TIME SACK LEADER POSTGAME AVAILABILITIES SGT. YORK TROPHY COMES Senior linebacker Tony Bell became UT Martin’s Players and coaches will be available for interviews BACK TO UT MARTIN all-time sacks leader in the 17-10 win over Tennessee in the multipurpose room of the Bob Carroll With a 37-7 win over Austin Peay, the Skyhawks Tech on Oct. 9. He had two sacks (bringing his career Football Building, aft er a brief cooling-off period at clinched the Sgt. York Trophy, which is in its eighth total to 18) and three tackles for loss while tallying the conclusion of each home game. year and is presented by Delta Dental of Tennessee. eight total tackles in the game. He passed Emanuel Media will be provided full stat packages upon Th e Sgt. York Trophy goes to the winner of the McNeil (17 sacks from 1985-88) as UT Martin’s sack completion of each home game. Skyhawk head coach quadrangular season series between the four OVC king. Jason Simpson and selected players will be made football playing schools located in the state of Bell’s best games of the season occured in a three available upon request. Tennessee (Austin Peay, Tennessee State, Tennessee week span. He compiled a game-high 11 tackles – Requests for players will be taken near the end of Tech and UT Martin).