Chattanooga Football Halftime Notes
The Citadel at No. 15 Chattanooga
Finley Stadium (20,668) - Chattanooga, Tenn.
Saturday - Oct. 1, 2011
TEAM
- The Mocs allowed 28 unanswered points in the final 21 minutes of the game to fall to The Citadel 28-27...UTC drops to 2-3 overall and 0-2 in the Southern Conference...the Bulldogs improve to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in the SoCon.
- UTC allowed 62 yards of total offense and no points in the first half...206 yards in the second half.
- The Mocs scored a TD on their first two trips to the Red Zone...The Citadel had allowed just one Red Zone TD in 10 opponent trips on the year coming into today's game.
- Chattanooga's second TD was a 6-play, 85-yard drive, capped off by a 60-yard TD strike from Coleman to true freshman Ron Moore. It is the longest drive in terms of yards this season.
- UTC is 6-3 when leading after the first quarter, 8-4 when leading at the half and 10-3 when leading after the third quarter under Huesman.
- The Citadel came into today's game with the No. 5 ranked scoring defense in the country, allowing just 14.3 ppg and no more than 18 points in any one game...UTC scored 24 points in the first half.
- The Citadel picked off B.J. Coleman in the third quarter...starting from the Mocs' 20-yard line, UTC allowed its first offensive touchdown (5:21) in over eight quarters, dating back to the first half (0:16) of the Eastern Kentucky game...it was also the first Red-Zone score allowed by UTC since the first half of the Jacksonville State game on Sept. 10.
- Tonight's attendance is 10,727. It is the 10th largest crowd in Finley Stadium history. Eight of the 12 home games in the Russ Huesman era have topped the 10,000-mark. Prior to his arrival in 2009, Chattanooga had just five crowds of 10,000 or more at Finley Stadium.
INDIVIDUAL
WR - Marlon Anthony - SO
- Six catches for 56 yards.
- Tied a career-high for catches and set a new mark for receiving yards.
WR - Joel Bradford - SR - Preseason All-American
- Six catches for 53 yards.
- Moves into the top-10 in receiving yards at UTC with his first catch today...now has 1,720 career yards, passing Jeremy Grier (2001-03) and Vince Stafford (1970-72) for 9th place all-time at UTC.
QB - B.J. Coleman - SR - Walter Payton Award Candidtate
- 19-33 for one TD and two INTs...253 passing yards.
- Gave the Mocs a 7-0 lead with his first rushing TD of the season (2 yards) in the first quarter. It was his seventh rushing TD of his career.
- Moves up to No. 2 all-time at UTC in career passing yards, topping Kenyon Earl (1991-94). With 6,614 career passing yards he is now 616 yards shy of Chris Sanders' (1999
-2000) school record of 7,230.
- Tied Chris Sanders (1999-2000) for the Mocs all-time record with his 49th career TD pass today. Coleman has six TD throws this season.
- 20th career 200-yard passing game.
LB - Ryan Consiglio - SR
- 10 tackles, including two for a loss.
- Third game this season with 10+ tackles...12th of his career.
LB - Wes Dothard - LB
- Career-high 12 tackles.
- Also had a sack, two TFLs and forced a fumble.
- Third straight game with 10+ tackles.
- Third straight game with a career-high in tackles.
WR - Ron Moore - FR
- True freshman seeing his first career action.
- First catch was a 60-yard TD strike...second catch was a 52-yard strike late in the
second half.
- Finished with two receptions for 112 yards and one TD.
K - Nick Pollard - FR
- Went 2-2 on FGs...hitting from 29 and 21 yards.
- 6-6 from 29 yards and in this season...0-4 from 30+ yards.
