Game 5
South Alabama Jaguars (1-3, 1-0 Sun Belt)
at Appalachian State Mountaineers (2-1, 0-0 Sun Belt)

Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 • 2:30 pm CDT
Kidd Brewer Stadium (30,000 capacity/FieldTurf)
Boone, N.C.

Media Information
Television
ESPN+
Harrison Battle (pxp)
Pierre Banks (analysis)
Radio
USA Football Radio Network
(flagship 96.1 FM/99.5 FM The Jag in Mobile)
J.D. Byars (pxp)
Pat Greenwood (analysis)
Tommy Hicks (sidelines)
On the web
• Live Twitter updates available at:
@WeAreSouth_JAGS
• Live stats available at:
http://statb.us/v/sala/230977
• Live audio available at:
http://www.iheart.com/live/995-the-jag-mobile-7117/

The Rankings
South Alabama
Associated Press — n/a
Coaches — n/a
Sagarin — 137th

Appalachian State
Associated Press — n/a
Coaches — RV (38th)
Sagarin — 38th

Series History
Overall: Series tied 1-1
In Mobile: APP leads 1-0
In Boone: USA leads 1-0
Neutral: n/a
Series Streak: APP — 1
First Meeting: USA, 47-21, on Oct. 4, 2014, in Boone
Last Meeting: APP, 34-27, on Dec. 5, 2015, in Mobile

The Coaches
South Alabama
Steve Campbell (Troy '88)
Record at USA — 1-3 (1st season)
Career record — 160-56 (20th season)
Career NCAA record — 61-26 (8th season)
Career Sun Belt record — 1-0
Record vs. APP — 0-0
Appalachian State
Scott Satterfield (Appalachian State '96)
Record at APP — 43-23 (6th season)
Career Record — same
Record vs. USA — 1-1

Opening Kick
• South hits the road for the first time in Sun Belt Conference play.
• It will also be the Jaguars' initial afternoon kickoff this fall.
• It's the first of four matchups for the Jags against teams from the league's East Division.
• Appalachian State is the first of three Sun Belt schools the Jaguars will face in a five-week span currently receiving votes in the coaches poll.
• The Jags have played away from home in conference action just twice in September, splitting contests at Idaho (W, 2014) and Louisiana (L, 2016).
• South is 1-2 all-time in the Tar Heel State, winning at App State in 2014 after dropping games to North Carolina State in Raleigh during the 2011 and '12 campaigns.

South Alabama-Appalachian St. Series Notes
• The road team has won each of the first two meetings in the series.
• The winning squad has scored 30-plus points on both occasions.
• The Jags were the first-ever Sun Belt opponent to visit Boone in the 2014 matchup.

Notes From The Last Appalachian St. Meeting
• The Mountaineers scored 10 points in the final seven minutes of the contest to hand the Jags their third straight defeat to conclude the 2015 season, preventing South from going to a postseason bowl for the second year in a row.
• Down 24-7 at the half after being outgained 344-155 over the opening 30 minutes, the Jaguars scored the first 20 points after the break with the last of those — on a 41-yard Aleem Sunanon field goal with just under 10 minutes left — giving USA it's only lead of the night.
• The Jaguar defense forced a season-high four turnovers, including two in the second half that led to 10 points.
• Xavier Johnson led the Jag offense with 112 yards on 18 carries, his third 100-yard effort over the final five outings of the year.
• App State's Zach Matics remains the only opponent in South's first nine-plus seasons of competition to connect on two 50-yard field goals in the same game.

Notes On Campbell's Coaching/Playing Career
• Campbell's 160-56 mark as a head coach includes going 33-15 over the last four years at Central Arkansas, where he guided the Bears to back-to-back NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoff appearances.
• He has led two programs to national championships — Delta (Miss.) State in 2000 at the NCAA Division II level and Mississippi Gulf Coast C.C. to the 2007 National Junior College Athletic Association crown.
• In 19 seasons no team coached by Campbell has finished below .500.
• Campbell has coached on the staffs of Pat Dye (Auburn graduate assistant, 1988-89) and Jackie Sherrill (Mississippi State assistant, 2003).
• Campbell and Jaguar coordinators Kenny Edenfield and Greg Stewart were teammates on Troy's 1987 NCAA Division II national championship squad.

Show Me The Way
WR Jamarius Way recorded his second straight 100-yard contest at Memphis last time out after posting game-high totals with both 10 catches and 185 receiving yards, setting a career high in the latter category for the second week in a row.  He entered play with three receptions of 20 or more yards but had four such catches against the Tigers — three of those came on Jaguar touchdown drives — and also followed his fourth-quarter scoring catch with a reception for the two-point conversion for South's final points of the night.  With the performance Way became just the third Jag in program history to record multiple 100-yard receiving games in two different seasons, and the first to ever have more than one outing with 150-plus yards in the same campaign.

Orth Moves Jaguar Offense
Evan Orth tied a school game record with 360 yards passing against the Tigers, completing 24-of-32 attempts with a career-best three touchdowns.  The senior finished with 369 yards of total offense — the second-highest total posted in a contest in the program's record books — while leading South's offense to season-high figures of 467 yards and an average of 6.9 yards per play.  It was the first time a Jag quarterback has thrown for 300 or more yards since Cole Garvin had 343 in a defeat of Arkansas State on Nov. 11 last fall, and the first occasion one has tossed three touchdowns since Dallas Davis accomplished the feat in an Oct. 21 win over ULM three weeks prior.

Senior Safety Has Double-Digit Stops Again
Nigel Lawrence was credited with a game-high-tying 11 stops in the Memphis game, marking the third time in four contests he has led team in tackles.  It was also the third outing this fall that the senior — who is the only individual in the Sun Belt averaging 10 or more tackles per outing entering this contest — has recorded a double-digit total in the category; that equals the number of times Lawrence posted 10-plus stops in 33 games his first three seasons with the program.

Baker Back In Business
Kawaan Baker scored his team-leading sixth and seventh touchdowns of the season, the third time this fall he has reached the end zone on multiple occasions in a game and the second in which he has done so both via a rush and a reception.  With seven touchdowns in the Jags's first four games this fall, the sophomore wideout has already entered the top 10 in the school's season record books.

Making His Mark
Junior RB Tra Minter has also crossed the goal line in consecutive outings after scoring on a 2-yard run in the second quarter last time out.  The team's leading rusher in each of those contests after gaining 35 yards against the Tiger defense, Minter has recorded three touchdowns the last two weeks after reaching the end zone just twice all last season.

Drive Time
Each of the Jaguar offense's first four scoring drives in the Memphis game covered at least 75 yards, the first time the unit has accomplished the feat since putting together four scoring marches of 75-plus yards at ULM on Nov. 5, 2016.  The Jags took a 7-0 lead when Baker capped their opening possession with a 13-yard touchdown run, marking the first occasion the Jags have scored on their initial drive since defeating the Warhawks on Oct. 21 last fall.

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