HBU Huskies (0-0) at Texas State Bobcats (0-0)
Saturday, Sept. 2 – 6 p.m.
Bobcat Stadium – San Marcos, Texas
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SAN MARCOS, Texas - Despite Hurricane Harvey's effort to thwart the beginning of college football season in the Lone Star State, HBU will kick off the year against FBS foe Texas State as scheduled Saturday at 6 p.m. at Bobcat Stadium. The video broadcast will be available on ESPN3, while HBU's Legacy Sports Network audio broadcast with Lonnie King is available on HBUHuskies.com.
The Huskies (0-0) will be led on offense by the senior running back tandem of
B.J. Kelly and
Terrance Peters. Kelly has rushed for 1,374 yards and 10 touchdowns in his three seasons, while Peters has rushed for 1,308 yards, six touchdowns, and added 235 receiving yards and a score. Peters also has three of the four longest runs in school history with touchdowns of 82, 78 and 51 yards. Senior receiver
Isaiah Hall made 29 catches for 279 yards and a touchdown last year, and senior receiver
Ethan Fry had 17 receptions for 285 yards. HBU will suit up three quarterbacks who have combined for one collegiate snap with sophomore
Jack Swensen, redshirt freshman
Andrew Haidet and true freshman
Bailey Zappe.
HBU's defense is led by All-America senior linebacker
Garrett Dolan, who ranked second nationally last season with 12.3 tackles per game, was a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award for FCS's top defensive player and is on this season's watch list, and is a three-time all-conference selection. He is joined by senior linebacker
Cody Moncure, who made 73 stops last year, all-conference senior cornerback
Derek Broussard and all-conference sophomore defensive end
Andre Walker.
Junior kicker
Alec Chadwick made the longest field goal in Division I football last year with a 60-yarder in the season finale at Incarnate Word, went 16-for-25 on field goal attempts and was perfect on extra points. Senior punter
Christian Guzman enters the season with the third-best average in Southland Conference history. Long snapper
Danny Garza was a preseason all-America third-team selection.
Texas State (0-0) went 2-10 last season and 0-8 in the Sun Belt Conference in its first season under head coach Everett Withers. The Bobcats will be led at quarterback by either Mississippi State transfer Damian Williams or Willie Jones, a true freshman from Beaumont. Robert Brown and Anthony Taylor, who rushed for 25 yards last season, are expected to pace the running backs. Tyler Watts was Texas State's leading receiver last year with 43 catches for 364 yards and a touchdown.
Bryan London anchors the Bobcats' defense, as he ranked third in the nation last season with 141 tackles, while Gabe Loyd recorded 102 stops.
Saturday marks the first meeting on the gridiron between the two schools as HBU begins its fourth season and Texas State enters its 110th. The Bobcats were members of the Southland Conference from 1987-2010.
The Huskies will be on the road for the first four weeks of the season and will have a short turnaround before a meeting with crosstown rival Texas Southern Thursday, Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at BBVA Compass Stadium. HBU then faces Abilene Christian Sept. 16, followed by McNeese Sept. 23 in back-to-back Southland Conference road games.
