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WKU Football vs. Old Dominion
Postgame Notes
Oct. 25, 2014
Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium; Bowling Green, Ky.
FINAL SCORE: WKU 66, Old Dominion 51
Team Records and Series Notes
- WKU won its first league game as a member of Conference USA, improving to 3-4 overall on the season and 1-3 in conference play. Old Dominion dropped its fourth-straight game to fall to 3-5 with a 1-4 mark in C-USA.
- The Hilltoppers take a 1-0 lead in the series after meeting the Monarchs for the first time.
Team Notes
- Playing on Feix Field for the first time since the death of legendary WKU player and coach Jimmy Feix, the Hilltoppers scored 66 points in the victory, the uniform number Feix wore as a WKU player.
- WKU's game captains were Cameron Clemmons, Cam Thomas, Willie McNeal and Terran Williams.
- WKU won the toss and elected to receive. WKU went on to score on its opening drive.
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- WKU scored on its opening drive for the fourth straight game and for the fifth time in seven games this season. WKU has scored on the opening drive on 14-of-19 occasions with Jeff Brohm on the WKU sideline.
- WKU extended its FBS-best streak of 34-point performances to nine games, a streak dating back to Nov. 23, 2013
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- WKU has now scored at least 30 points in nine-straight games for the first time in school history
- The 2014 Hilltoppers are the only team in school history to open the season with seven-straight 30+ point games.
- The 117 combined points between WKU and ODU were tied for the most combined points in a WKU game, tying the 2009 contest between WKU and North Texas in Denton, Tx.
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- It was tied for the second most combined points in Conference USA history, bested only by the 124 combined points between East Carolina (65) and Marshall (59) in a game on Nov. 23, 2012.
- The Hilltoppers' 66 points were their highest single-game total in the FBS era
- WKU scored in all three phases of the game for the first time since doing so against Morgan State on 09/21/13
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- WKU has scored four defensive touchdowns this season, with three going for 80+ yards
- WKU's 21 first-quarter points were its most in the opening frame since scoring 21 against Morgan State on 09/21/13
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- WKU's 42 first-half points tied an FBS record which it also set in the 2013 contest versus Morgan State
- WKU has racked up at least 400 yards of offense in nine-straight games.
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- The Hilltoppers racked up 601 yards in the game, their third performance of 600 or more yards in 2014
- WKU has had at least eight different players catch a pass in every game this season.
- WKU has had at least 249 yards of total offense in the first half of every game this season. WKU has also had at least 100 yards of total offense in the first and second quarter of every game this season.
- WKU's 88.5 completion percentage through the air (23-of-26), all by Brandon Doughty, ranks fourth in Conference USA history for a single game by a team.
Player Notes
- Senior quarterback Brandon Doughty completed 23-of-26 passes for 371 yards and five touchdowns.
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- Doughty broke his own single-season record for passing yards (2,857 in 2013) in the game, upping his season total to 2,871 just seven games into the season
- Doughty's 5 TD passes upped his season total to 24, a new WKU single-season record
- Doughty's 5 TD passes in the first half set a school record for TD passes in a half
- Doughty had 210 yards passing and four touchdowns before throwing his second incompletion
- Doughty has thrown multiple touchdown passes in every game this season and in eight straight games overall. He has now thrown for at least three TDs six times in his career and four times this season
- Doughty, who became the first quarterback in school history with three-straight 300-yard games in the game with UAB, extended that streak to five games today. Doughty's five-straight 300-yard outings currently ranks second among active FBS streaks
- Doughty has completed at least 20 passes in nine-consecutive games dating back to Nov. 23, 2013.
- Junior wide receiver Jared Dangerfield had 8 catches for 95 yards and a TD
- Junior running back Leon Allen rushed for a career high 182 yards and two touchdowns on a career high 32 carries
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- Allen eclipsed the 100-yard rushing mark for the fifth time in his career
- Allen scored multiple TDs for the second-straight week
- Junior wide receiver Antwane Grant caught 4 passes for 61 yards and score two touchdowns
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- Grant's two scores marked his first career multi-touchdown game
- Grant has tallied at least 50 receiving yards in every game this season
- Redshirt senior wide receiver Joel German scored his first career TD on a career long 45-yard reception
- Redshirt freshman Kylen Towner's 94-yard kickoff return TD was the first of his career and WKU's first since John Evans raced 90 yards for a TD at Middle Tennessee State on Oct. 6, 2011
- Redshirt freshman Juwan Gardner recorded his first career interception and returned it 96 yards for a fourth-quarter TD
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- Gardner's interception return was the longest defensive play in school history
- Redshirt senior defensive back Cam Thomas intercepted his first pass of the season and 10th of his career
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- Thomas became the seventh player in WKU history to intercept 10 passes in his career
