WKU Football: Gameday Information for Game 9 Against Florida Atlantic
After a tough rivalry loss last week, WKU Football returns to the Houch to take on Lane Kiffin’s Owls in a CUSA East division elimination…
After a tough rivalry loss last week, WKU Football returns to the Houch to take on Lane Kiffin’s Owls in a CUSA East division elimination game.
If you need to know any of the game information, look no further — we have you covered.
Location
Houchens Industries L.T. Smith Stadium
Time
3:00 p.m. CT
Weather Forecast
TV
-Nate Gatter (Play by Play) & Brandon Doughty (Analyst) on the call
Radio
-Randy Lee (Play by Play) & Leo Peckenpaugh (Analyst) & Terry Obee (Reporter) on the call
Gameday Information
*If you bring 3 non-perishable food items you can get one free ticket to the game
Betting Lines from Sportsline.com
WKU -1.5
Over/ Under: 51
Moneyline: WKU -123
Current Records
WKU: 5–3 (4–1 in Conference USA)
FAU: 5–3 (4–1 in Conference USA)
Last Week
WKU traveled to Marshall for the Moonshine Throwdown. WKU committed turnovers on their first two offensive drives that resulted in two Marshall touchdowns as WKU fell behind 17–0 early. WKU would add a score to cut the lead to 10 but Marshall would add a field goal to lead 20–7 at the half. The Tops would fall behind as much as 16 but would rally scoring touchdowns by Ty Storey & Gaej Walker following a field goal by Cory Munson to tie the game at 23 with 6:19 remaining. Both teams would sputter on their next drives and Marshall would take over at their own 13 with 1:21 remaining. Marshall would then quickly march into field goal range as Justin Rohrwasser would drill a 53 yarder as time expired to send WKU home with a heartbreaking 26–23 loss moving them to 5–3 on the season.
FAU visited hapless ODU. The Owls jumped all over the Monarchs scoring 14 first-quarter points which would be more than enough as the Owls outgained ODU 430–204 in what turned out to be a 41–3 route of the Monarchs moving to 5–3 on the season.
Coaches
Tyson Helton- 1st Season- 5–3 Overall
Lane Kiffin- 3rd season at FAU- 21–13. 8th season Overall 56–34.
Series
Last Meeting
Last November WKU traveled down to Boca Raton to face FAU. Despite only being down 10–9 at the half, familiar struggles persisted in the second half as FAU ran for 315 yards and WKU’s offense couldn’t finish drives in a 34–15 defeat moving WKU to 1–9 on the season.
Relevant Reading
Injury Report by USA Today
For WKU:
LB- Eli Brown- Out- Foot
RB- Jakairi Moses- Out- Knee
QB- Steven Duncan- Out- Foot
DT- Jeremy Darvin- Questionable- Ankle
DT- Lichon Terrell- Questionable- Ankle
For FAU
QB- Chris Robison- Probable- Shoulder
RB- Malcolm Davidson- Questionable- Leg
WR- Adrian Bryant- Questionable- Ribs
WR- Eyin Cole- Out- Knee
P- Sebastian Riella- Out- Knee
Excitement Level — 8
If the Tops would have won last week this game would have been a 10 but we’ll have to settle for an eight now. FAU is still one of WKU’s top challengers for the east division and the loser effectively is eliminated from Conference Title supremacy. Add in the fact that the winner will clinch bowl eligibility with a win and the Lane Kiffin factor and this is probably the best remaining home game of the season. We’ll see if Tyson Helton can get his team back on track before an out of conference opportunity against reeling Arkansas next week.
Go Tops. We’ll be in Bowling Green for the big matchup providing live coverage and reaction. If you’re making the trip to campus, please send us your tailgating and in-game pictures via Twitter at @TheTowelRackWKU or on our Facebook page and we’ll share.