A Sea Of Red

Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville, Alabama


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Burgess Snow Field at JSU Stadium
Opened in 1947 - Seats 24,000



Rich Rodriguez
2nd Season as JSU Head Coach


2023 Schedule/Results

Aug 26 - UTEP* ............................... W 17-14
Sep 02 - East Tennessee St ............. W 49-3
Sep 09 - @ Coastal Carolina ............ L 16-30
Sep 23 - Eastern Michigan .............. W 21-0
Sep 28 - @ Sam Houston* .............. W 35-28 OT
Oct 04 - @ MTSU* ........................... W 45-30
Oct 10 - Liberty* .............................. 6:30 PM CT
Oct 17 - WKU*
Oct 25 - @ FIU*
Nov 04 - @ South Carolina
Nov 18 - Louisiana Tech*
Nov 25 - @ New Mexico State*

They're on a roll since the loss @ Coastal.

Also, are looking at their stadium... are those dorms that link to the concourse/stadium tower? Great design if so...

Key Players


#7 Logan Smothers
6' 2" 200 lbs Junior Quarterback
Thru 6 Games: 50-of-84 (59%) for 523 Yards with 5 TDs & 1 INT + 57 Carries for 240 Yards (4.2 YPC) with 5 Rushing TDs



#5 Malik Jackson
5' 10" 180 lbs Senior Running Back
Thru 6 Games: 98 Carries for 558 Yards (5.7 YPC) with 4 TDs + 12 Catches for 64 Yards



#14 Perry Carter
5' 10" 175 lbs Senior Receiver
Thru 6 Games: 13 Catches for 227 Yards (17 YPR) with 2 TDs



#91 Chris Hardie
6' 2" 270 lbs Junior Defensive Lineman
Thru 6 Games: 36 Tackles including 9.0 for Loss with 3.5 Sacks + 1 INT



#10 Quae Drake
6' 1" 225 lbs Senior Linebacker
Thru 6 Games: Team-Leading 43 Tackles including 2.5 for Loss + 1 INT

Just noticed that the line has moved to 7 for LU in this one. Hoping there is a good reason that the line moved +2 points from the open.
This one is a bit scary in how we match up.
Their commitment to the up-tempo running game is a bit worrisome for our front 7. Being thin already, we may get worn down by the 2nd half. I hope we deflate the ball a little on our end and do the same, without tempo.

Tuesday night football...weird

jmclaughlin wrote: Their commitment to the up-tempo running game is a bit worrisome for our front 7. Being thin already, we may get worn down by the 2nd half. I hope we deflate the ball a little on our end and do the same, without tempo.

Agreed - this one makes me nervous for this reason. Liberty is thin up front and has been inconsistent in stuffing the run or keeping QBs in the pocket this year. Jax State has struggled through the air, so hopefully the DBs can handle some extra stress and the defense can stuff some extra hats in the box.

Getting a healthy Cooley and Lucas back would be a huge boost for establishing the run early and limiting possessions, but I haven't heard much about the status of either beyond HCJC's "hopefully" comments in the weekly presser.

Agreed on that... I also am nervous about this game for two main reasons: 1) our kicking game is very suspect right now. Hard to win close games if you can't convert FGs from inside of 40yds. 2) Item 1 doesn't matter if you're scoring TDs and we've done plenty of that through the first few weeks of the season. We looked not so good last Thursday though with two drives stalling in the red zone, one at the 5yd line. Both ended up with 0 points because of Item 1.

If KSalt shows up tonight and the offense has their head in the game, I'll feel better about our chances. If we play like last week though, I think we're going to be disappointed with the result.

Gonna be a tough game this one, they are performing way better this season that I thought they would, fair enough. If we win the battle in the trenches and cut down on the penalties, I think we will come away with the victory.

Flames 27 JSU 21.

Both of the QBs they rotate are dual threat. Rich Rod loves him some mobile QBs.

JSU has the worst parking for of any school I have visited. With their parking, they should have never been invited to FBS.

ballcoach15 wrote: ↑October 10th, 2023, 3:37 pm JSU has the worst parking for of any school I have visited. With their parking, they should have never been invited to FBS.

You couldn't find a place to park your bicycle? Man. it must be terrible.

Poor planning. I should have came to campus on my bicycle.

Have the same feeling I had before the FIU game, they have a lot of grown men on that team. Hopefully they look like Tarzan and play like Jane.

Good guys 31
JSU 20

We are underway!

Jax State defers and we are on offense first.

Gamecocks defense came out fired up. We came out flat and go 3 & out.

JSU will start out their first possession at the 50 with Zion Webb starting at QB

Kobe Singleton with the INT!

Joker time!

Another 3 & out for the Flames

JSU goes for it on 4th & 3 and we don't cover RB out of backfield to keep the drive alive.

Smothers with the pass down to the 1 and they are flying into their next plays

Smothers, the Nebarska trasnfer QB, keeps it on the bootleg to put JSU up 7-0 with 7:48 to go in 1st Quarter

Well we are starting just as terrible as we finished last game.

Terrible on offense and defense right now

KSalt on the keeper helps LU avoid three straight 3 & Outs.

Salter is 0-for-4 passing to start the game.

Liberty fleaflicker to CJ Daniels but PI in the endzone.

CJ then lets one bounce off his hands in the endzone. Ugh.

We are about to go for it on 4th & 1 at their 15.

KSalt gets it up the middle.