WKU Game Notes
Troy Game Notes
Sun Belt Conference Weekly Notes
Rainey On a Rampage
Monday Press Conference Transcript
Press Conference Video - Coach Taggart
Press Conference Video - Bobby Rainey
WKU looks to close out the 2010 season on a high note when it visits Troy at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the 2010 season finale. The Trojans are looking to pick up their sixth win of the season and stay in the Sun Belt Conference championship race.
Finishing Strong - The Hilltoppers come into Saturday's game looking to do something it hasn't done since 2006 - go into the off season with a victory. WKU closed out the '06 campaign with a 24-14 win over Austin Peay in its last season as a member of the Football Championship Subdivision. In fact, only five time since 1990 have the Toppers won their season finale. That included a win in the 2002 I-AA National Championship game.
Rainey Runs - Junior Bobby Rainey has done it all for WKU this season, but added to that list of accomplishments last week against Middle Tennessee. Rainey carried a school-record 45 times for a career-best 248 yards and two touchdowns against the Blue Raiders. In the process, he broke both the WKU and Sun Belt Conference records for rushing attempts in a season. Now with 313 carries, he bested the previous WKU mark of 303 set by Jon Frazier in 2002, and the league mark of 307 established by Patrick Cobb of North Texas in 2003. With 1,492 yards on the season, he is third on both the WKU and SBC single-season rushing list.
Boyd Blocks - Before last Saturday, WKU had not blocked a punt since it did so at Troy on Nov. 8, 2008. Freshman Bar'ee Boyd was able to get his hands on two MTSU punts in the first quarter last week. His first set WKU up at the 24-yard line for its first touchdown of the game. The second - one Blue Raider possession later - was recovered by Derrius Brooks in the end zone for a touchdown. It was the first time WKU had returned a blocked punt for a touchdown since 2007 when it did so against Eastern Kentucky. Boyd's efforts on those two kicks earned him Sun Belt Conference Special Teams Player of the Week.
Majors Closing In On 100 Again - Entering his final game in a Hilltopper uniform, senior linebacker Thomas Majors is closing in on 100 tackles for the second straight year. The Nashville, Tenn., native enters the game at Troy with 94 total tackles on the year after posting a game-high nine last week. His 8.5 tackles per game rank sixth in the Sun Belt. Majors finished with 101 stops in 2009 - his first season on the Hill.
Power of One - Each of WKU's last three games have been decided by one point - a 17-16 loss to Florida Atlantic, a 36-35 overtime win at Arkansas State and a 27-26 loss to Middle Tennessee. The last time WKU played in three one-point games in the same season was in 1984. It lost all three of those games.
