[Sly Fox]

Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia


KSU Football Official Site

Owl Howl - KSU Board


Public Institution
Enrollment: 32,500
Non-Football Athletic Affiliation: A-Sun
Nickname: Owls
Famous Alumni: Ryan Secrest, Golfer Larry Nelson, Alex & Stephen Kendrick and Third Day's Mac Powell



Brian Bohannon
2nd Season as KSU Head Coach



Fifth Third Bank Stadium
Opened in 2010 - Seats 8300


2016 Schedule/Results

• SEP 03 - 7:00 P.M. - EAST TENNESSEE STATE ............... L, 17-20
  SEP 10 - 7:00 P.M. - POINT ........................................... W, 49-3
  SEP 24 - 1:00 P.M. - @ DUQUESNE ............................... W, 36-28
  OCT 01 - 3:00 P.M. - @ FURMAN ................................... W, 52-42
  OCT 08 - 1:00 P.M. - MISSOURI S&T .............................. W 49-16
  OCT 15 - 7:00 P.M. - LIBERTY* (Homecoming)

Key Players

• 
  #3 Chandler Burks
  5' 10" 189 lbs Sophomore Quarterback
  Thru 5 Games: 33-of-54 for 556 Yards with 5 TDs & 1 INT + 71 Carries for 320 Yards with 8 Rushing TDs
  
  
  
  #33 Darnell Holland
  5' 10" 186 lbs Sophomore Running Back
  Thru 5 Games: 23 carries for 231 Yards (10.0 YPC) with 3 TDs + 6 Catches for 118 Yards
  
  
  
  #15 Justin Sumpter
  6' 3" 217 lbs Sophomore Receiver
  Thru 5 Games: 25 Catches for 468 Yards and 6 TDs
  
  
  
  #57 Tonarious Portress
  5' 11" 239 lbs Junior Defensive Lineman (JUCO Transfer)
  Thru 5 Games: Averaging 26 Tacles including 7 for Loss + 1 Sack + 1 Forced Fumble
  
  
  
  #59 Desmond Johnson
  6' 2" 230 lbs Redshirt Freshman Defensive Lineman
  Thru 5 Games: 12 Tackles including 6.5 for Loss with 5 Sacks
  
  
  
  #23 Dante Blackmon
  5' 11" 181 lbs Senior Defensive Back
  Thru 5 Games: 9 Tackles with 5 INTs + 6 Passes Broken Up + 1 Fumble Recovery

[thepostman]

With their schedule it's hard to get a good feel of hoq good or bad they are.

[Sly Fox]

I agree. The win vs. Furman does look nice. But having to struggle to a victory over D2 Missouri S&T doesn't put much fear in the hearts of anyone.

That offense will be a challenge to manage primarily because we don't face anything like it on the rest of our schedule. Think VMI different back in the day.

[LUnpretty11]

I thought their stadium sat 15,000? This game concerns me.

[Jonathan Carone]

Furman is horrible this year so that win isn't that impressive.

KSU didn't take the jump I thought they would. They're a mid road Big South school we should beat by two scores.

What concerns me is us, not KSU.

[thepostman]

Our shortfalls is why I believe it'll be close throughout.

[BJWilliams]

Thanks again Sly...this weekend has been interesting thanks to Hurricane Matthew basically defying all the forecast models...we lost power at my job and after power was restored, had to spend most of yesterday throwing out all of our perishables save produce and didn't even get to open for customers until around 6 PM. I'll be back on it for next week.

[thepostman]

Oh suuuuuure blame the storm.

I'm kidding BJ. Glad you're safe.

[olldflame]

Furman is horrible this year so that win isn't that impressive.

KSU didn't take the jump I thought they would. They're a mid road Big South school we should beat by two scores.

What concerns me is us, not KSU.

Furman has a horrible record this year (0-5) but they have played a killer schedule They hung with Michigan State, lost close ones to Chatty and El Cid (both undefeated and ranked) and spotted KSU a 42 point lead before closing it to 7 and losing by 10

Because of who they have played, it's tough to get a real handle on how good KSU is I'm glad we have the extra week to prepare for the option History seems to show that is helpful

[VAGolf]

I love how people are drawing conclusions about KSU, from a close three quarters against a D2.

Do I need to remind you that we struggled with Brevard for three quarters...the year we made playoffs? Don't read too much into it.

When we played GSU last year, we had more fans than they did...and it was their homecoming. I know we have a fairly strong presence in Atlanta...so, it will be interesting to see what kind of crowd we'll have. We'll actually be in ATL Saturday, but we're headed out that morning unfortunately.

[BJWilliams]

Oh suuuuuure blame the storm.

I'm kidding BJ. Glad you're safe.

Thanks postie...I literally had no time to put it together yesterday like I usually could because we were so busy emptying everything out. Im just glad it didnt flood the store.

[A Sea of Red]

7 notables from today's press conference

http://www.aseaofred.com/7-notables-fro ... onference/

[LUnpretty11]

What is the best way to protect a decimated O-line? Up-tempo pace and quick plays i.e. bubble screens. Fast pace will give the big fellas the help they need to stay fresh and take the pressure off dominating the LOS. Fingers crossed.

[BJWilliams]

I see all these positive things being said about Kennesaw State and I can only think one thing...

They can be beaten. As obvious as that may sound, there is no reason to be intimidated by them. We need a lot of new faces to step up (even if it means burning a couple redshirts in the process), but I still think we can end our disturbing trend in first road meetings with new Big South members.

[LUnpretty11]

Intimidation is not even close to being in the equation. Their athletic department is chalking this up as the biggest home game in program history. Liberty is still very much favored to win this game.

[olldflame]

I see all these positive things being said about Kennesaw State and I can only think one thing...

They can be beaten. As obvious as that may sound, there is no reason to be intimidated by them. We need a lot of new faces to step up (even if it means burning a couple redshirts in the process), but I still think we can end our disturbing trend in first road meetings with new Big South members.

Sometimes I just have to BJ What redshirts are you possibly thinking would help us enough at this point to play them There are 2 OL, Zapata and Burroughs, but while they have potential, neither is really ready Any "new faces" that would step up would more likely be walkons, but more likely we will struggle through with the guys who have been playing and pray noone else gets hurt I can't think of any other position where we are so thin we would even consider burning a redshirt at this point

[flamesfilmguy]

I'll be on the sideline for this one. Glad our game is at 12:30 so I can attend. anyone else coming down to Gods country for the game that might want to catch two CFB games in one day?

[Purple Haize]

I'll be on the sideline for this one. Glad our game is at 12:30 so I can attend. anyone else coming down to Gods countiry for the game that might want to catch two CFB games in one day?

The game is in West Virginia?

[flamesfilmguy]

Georgia, The heart of the south, God's Country .

[Purple Haize]

Georgia, The heart of the south, God's Country .

You worship a false god obviously

[BJWilliams]

What's funny is I was the DJ at a wedding in May and when I introduced the bridal party I introduced the folks form West Virginia as being from God's Country

[SumItUp]

It's always about BJ

[rtb72]

Since BJ brought it up (and i'm glad he is safe); NC got hammered. i've been deployed since last Sunday to Princeville and Lumberton and many of our citizens can use all the prayers you can muster. It's really bad, almost to the extent of Floyd in 99'.

As for the Kstate game. I feel pretty good about our chances...mainly because of our D. Last year they ran the ball fairly effectively against us, but we survived. I really think our run defense is better than last year. BUT...we are on the road and LU has never been a guarantee when we aren't at home. Winning by two scores is possible if we show up.

[BJWilliams]

We had major sections of some neighborhoods with houses declared unlivable after Matthew because of the level of flooding that we went through. If you watched the evening news on the local affiliates all week, you saw house after house with the first floor basically gutted because of the floodwaters destroying everything...and the single story houses where people basically lost everything they had...many lives both here and in NC have been significantly changed and itll take a very long time to get back to something even close to normal. All that because the system tracked only 100 miles off the forecasted track heading into the day last Saturday

Back to the game...As is always the case with an option team, we HAVE to be assignment sound, especially with a good runner in Burks triggering the offense for them.

[LUDad]

We have the speed on defense to contain their running game. The question is, once they get to the runner will they actually wrap-up the guy and tackle him. If we start tackling and Calvert will start taking the low hanging fruit after Shells takes the top off the defense, I think we can run the table. Fortunately, Calvery has a few games to gain experience before we get to CSU & CCU.