Oct. 3, 2013
WKU Football vs. ULM
Postgame Notes
Oct. 3, 2013
Malone Stadium; Monroe, La.
FINAL SCORE: WKU 31, ULM 10
Team Records and Series Notes
• WKU improves to 4-2 on the season while ULM falls to 2-4. WKU is 1-1 in the Sun Belt Conference while ULM is 0-1 in the league.
• WKU improves to 4-2 or better for the second consecutive season, marking the first time the Hilltoppers have achieved that feat since 2004 and 2005.
• Tonight's game marked a meeting of former national champions. WKU won the 2002 I-AA National Championship while ULM claimed the same title in 1987.
• WKU returns home on Tues. Oct. 15, 2013 at 7:00 pm CT against Louisiana-Lafayette at Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium. The game will be televised by ESPN2. Tickets are available through the WKU Ticket Office by calling 1-800-5-BIG-RED, visiting wkusports.com or visiting the E.A. Diddle Arena Box Office.
Team Notes
• WKU won the coin toss and elected to receive. WKU has opened the game with the ball in each game this season.
• WKU's team captains were Brandon Doughty, Jonathan Dowling, Andrew Jackson and Cam Thomas.
• WKU went six plays for 75 yards and a touchdown on the opening drive of the game, capped by a Doughty touchdown pass to McNeal. It marked the fifth time in six games that WKU has scored on its opening drive of the game.
o WKU had four first downs on its opening six-play drive for a touchdown.
o Doughty is now 17-of-19 for 190 yards and two touchdowns on opening drives of games this season for WKU in his five starts.
• WKU's scoring streak stands at 17 games since being shutout against Alabama (35-0) on Sept. 8, 2012.
• Petrino-led teams have passed for at least 200 yards in 94 of 107 games during his career including 41 of the last 42 games he has coached. • Petrino's teams have forced a turnover in 15 consecutive games.
• Petrino-led teams have passed for a touchdown in 93 of 107 games during his career. WKU ended a two-game stretch without a touchdown pass tonight. • WKU had 11 different players catch a pass in the game.
Player Notes
• Senior running back Antonio Andrews had 155 rushing yards on 27 attempts with one touchdown.
o Andrews is now the national leader in rushing touchdowns with nine.
o Andrews has now caught a pass in 19 consecutive games.
o Andrews has scored a touchdown in 16 of the last 19 games he has played.
o Andrews has posted 132 or more all-purpose yards in 19 straight games.
o Andrews recorded his 24th career game with 100 or more all-purpose yards.
o Andrews has posted 100 or more rushing yards in five straight games.
o Andrews has posted 100 or more rushing yards in 15 of his last 17 games.
o Andrews now has 13 career games with 20 or more rushing attempts.
o Andrews posted his seventh-career performance with 150+ yards rushing.
o Andrews has 25 or more carries in eight of WKU's last 12 games.
• Junior quarterback Brandon Doughty was 24-of-36 for 370 passing yards, a new career high in passing yards for the quarterback.
o Doughty set a new WKU FBS-era individual record with his 370 yards passing in the game.
o Doughty has opened games this season by completing his first five, three, four, seven, nine and eight (tonight vs. ULM) passes of games.
• Sophomore running back Leon Allen caught his first career touchdown pass with 3:07 left in the first quarter. It was his third touchdown of the season of any type and fifth touchdown of any type during his career.
o He added a rushing touchdown in the fourth quarter, the sixth touchdown of any type in his career.
• Senior Cam Thomas had his second interception of the season and sixth career interception.
• Senior linebacker Xavius Boyd reached double figures in tackles for the fifth time in six games this season.
o Boyd led WKU in tackles for the seventh-straight game dating back to the 2012 season.
• Senior Bar'ee Boyd had his first pass breakup of the season during the second quarter. He finished the game with three. He entered the game with one career pass breakup.
o WKU has had a player record three pass breakups in each of the last three meetings with ULM.
• Freshman wide receiver Taywan Taylor has caught a pass in five of six games this season.
• Junior Willie McNeal had two catches for 47 yards. McNeal caught his first touchdown pass of the season and ninth career touchdown. It was the first touchdown catch for McNeal since a touchdown against FAU on Nov. 10, 2012.
• Freshman wide receiver Nicholas Norris has caught a pass in five of six games this season.
• Senior punter Hendrix Brakefield pinned ULM inside the two-yard line twice in the game and for the third and fourth time in the last three games.
o It was the third time in Brakefield's career that he has pinned an opponent inside the five yard line multiple times in a game. He also achieved the feat against MTSU on Oct. 6, 2011 and against Arkansas State on Sept. 29, 2012.
