Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Host Marshall on Senior Day
November 08, 2004 | Football
Nov. 8, 2004
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Marshall (5-4, 5-1) at Bowling Green (7-2, 5-1) Saturday, November 13 - Noon Doyt L. Perry Stadium (28,599) Series Record: BGSU leads 30-14-3 Last Meeting: at Marshall 37, BGSU 31 (9/29/01)
First and Ten
Saturday's MAC TV Game of the Week will be shown live by FSN-Ohio, ESPN GamePlan, Comcast Sports Net Chicago, Empire Sports Network in upstate New York and Comcast Local in Michigan.
The Falcons have clinched their fourth straight 7-plus win season, a feat that was last accomplished at BGSU from 1982-1995. BGSU is rated 26th in this week's ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and also received votes in the AP Poll.
BGSU holds a 19-7 lead in the series, but will meet for the first time since the 2001 season. In their last visit to Perry Stadium, Marshall took home a 20-13 win in 2000.
Sophomore quarterback Omar Jacobs, who is in his first year as the Falcons' starting signal caller, is currently the national leader in TD passes (27), second in points responsible for (20.67) and total offense (340.9), fourth in completions per game (24.8), and fourth in passing efficiency (170.1). He also has the fewest interceptions in the nation for a player with 300 pass attempts or more with two and has been sacked just four times in 321 passing attempts.
The Falcons are the top team in the MAC in total offense averaging 492.2 yards per game and are converting on a league-high 50 % on third down.
BGSU leads the MAC averaging 320.9 yards in the air and 42.6 points per game. BG is second in the league in scoring defense allowing just 18.1 points per game.
BGSU and Ball State have committed the fewest turnovers in the nation with five. BGSU leads the MAC and is sixth nationally in turnover margin at +1.22 per game.
BGSU has won 17 straight games at home in the regular season (since 2001) with the Falcons' lone blemish in Perry Stadium coming in last year's MAC Championship game against Miami.
Junior P.J. Pope, this week's co-MAC West Offensive Player of the Week pick last year, had a career-high 205 yards rushing against WMU. He leads all league running backs in yards per carry (7.0) and receiving yards (352).
SENIOR DAY
Fifteen members of the BGSU football team will be playing their final game in Perry Stadium. This class enters the final two weeks of the season with the best winning percentage (35-11, .761) of any graduating group in the MAC just ahead of Marshall (35-12, .744). The members of this year's senior class include:
Jovon Burkes, LB Detroit, Mich. T.J. Carswell, DB Irwinton, Ga. Todd DiBacco, TE Monaca, Pa. Andy Grubb, OL Leipsic, Ohio Andrew Hart, OL Mentor, Ohio James Hawkins, WR Cleveland, Ohio Cole Magner, WR Palmer, Alaska Cornelius McGrady, WR, Reynoldsburg, Ohio Scott Mruczkowski, OL Garfield Heights, Ohio Ryan Newble, DE Brownsville, Tenn. Keon Newson, DB Decatur, Ga. Gavin Powell, LS Defiance, Ohio Daniel Sayles, LB Warner Robins, Ga. Shaun Suisham, K Wallaceburg, Ont. Andy Wenstrup, OL Cincinnati, Ohio
