No. 25 Football Heads To The Citadel On Saturday

MACON – The Mercer football team will snap the lid on the road portion of its 2023 regular season schedule on Saturday when the 25th-ranked Bears travel to Charleston, S.C., to tangle with The Citadel at Johnson Hagood Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET.

The game is slated to be streamed live on ESPN+ with Dave Weinstein and Jason Kempf handling the duties in the booth. Rick Cameron and the rest of the Mercer Sports Network will call all of the action as well, and fans can listen to that broadcast on The Creek 100.9 FM, or by visiting Sportsmic. A live statistics link is also being provided by The Citadel athletics department.

ABOUT THE GAME
Date: Saturday, November 4 Time: 2 p.m. ET Location: Charleston, S.C.. I Johnson Hagood Stadium TV: ESPN+ Listen Live: 100.9 The Creek I Sportsmic Network Live Statistics: Sidearm Stats Twitter Updates: @MercerFootball

GAME NOTES (PDF)
Mercer	The Citadel	Southern Conference

MERCER/THE CITADEL SERIES
The Citadel leads the all-time series with Mercer, 11-8-1, in head-to-head matchups that date all the way back to the 1906 season. The Bulldogs have also taken five of the nine matchups between the two squads since college football returned to Macon in time for the 2013 season. However, the Bears will ride a 3-game series win streak into Saturday's contest, and have captured two of the last three matchups in Charleston, S.C.

SCOUTING THE CITADEL
The Bulldogs, under the direction of first-year head coach Maurice Drayton, returned 19 starters, including eight on the offensive side of the ball and seven on defense, from last year's team that registered a 4-7 record (3-5 SoCon) and a 6th-place finish in the league's final regular season standings. Among the returnees is placekicker Colby Kintner who led The Citadel with 46 points last season, including an 8-for-10 success rate on field goal attempts. The Citadel remained winless on the season following Saturday's 37-7 loss at Samford. Samford outgained The Citadel 336-90 in the first half alone on the way to lugging a 30-0 advantage into the halftime break, and then hit cruise control the rest of the way out. Samford scored points on five of its six drives in the opening stanza, while The Citadel tacked up its lone score via a 40-yard touchdown pass late in the third quarter.


MERCER D IS HEATING UP
Mercer's stop unit has registered 13 of its 17 takeaways this season over the last five outings, including six in Saturday's upset win over then-No. 10 Western Carolina. The impact of MU's defense has been felt in its ground forces across that span as well. Since the Week 4 loss at Furman, the Bears have yielded just 74.0 rushing yards per game (5 games), and have allowed just one opponent to log more than 86 rushing yards. Western Carolina, who boasted the nation's 16th-best rushing attack last week, was held to just 86 rushing yards on Saturday.

NEXT WEEK FOR THE BEARS
The Bears will culminate Homecoming Week on campus, as well as close out their 2023 regular season schedule, on November 11 when they welcome Southern Conference rival Samford to Macon. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. Get your tickets ahead of time by visiting MercerBears.com/Tickets.

No. 25 Football Heads To The Citadel On Saturday

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