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WKU Football vs. UAB
Postgame Notes
Oct. 4, 2014
Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium; Bowling Green, Ky.
FINAL SCORE: UAB 42, WKU 39
Team Records and Series Notes
- WKU falls to 2-3 on the season with an 0-2 mark in Conference USA play while UAB improves to 3-2 with a 1-1 mark in the league.
- WKU and UAB have each won three games each amongst the six all-time meetings.
Team Notes
- WKU's captains for the game were Willie McNeal, Gavin Rocker, Cam Clemmons and Cam Thomas
- WKU extended its FBS-best streak of 34-point performances to seven games, a streak dating back to Nov. 23, 2013
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- WKU's current streak marks just the fourth time in school history it has scored 30+ in seven-straight games
- The 2014 Hilltoppers joined the 1997 WKU squad as the only two teams in program history to start the season with five-straight 30+ games
- WKU has five 30-point games in 2014 - only eight Hilltopper teams have recorded more than five 30-point performances through entire seasons in WKU history
- With WKU's 39 points against UAB, it has now scored 215 points this season, which is tied the highest point total through five games in school history
- WKU has racked up at least 400 yards of offense in seven-straight games after totaling 503 against the Blazers
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- WKU has had at least 100 yards in 21 of 24 total quarters in 2014
- WKU tallied 205 yards in the first quarter, marking the fourth quarter with 200+ yards in 2014
- WKU had four TD drives of under three minutes in the contest, upping their season total to 15
- WKU has had at least eight different players catch a pass in every game this season
- WKU has now had an individual record at least 100 all-purpose yards in 49 straight games dating back to Oct. 9, 2010 as running back Anthony `Ace' Wales eclipsed the mark against UAB with 151 all-purpose yards
Player Notes
- Senior QB Brandon Doughty finished the game 25-of-37 for 319 yards and two touchdowns
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- Doughty became the first quarterback in school history with three-straight 300-yard games
- Doughty owns four of Conference USA's 11 300-yard passing performances in 2014
- Doughty has completed at least 20 passes in seven-consecutive games dating back to Nov. 23, 2013
- Doughty upped his touchdown pass total to 16 after throwing for 14 TDs in all of 2013
- Doughty started the game 14-for-14 with 177 yards and a TD. He didn't throw an incompletion until the 10:26 mark of the second quarter
- Doughty's 319 yards passing were the most by a UAB opponent this season
- Senior WR Willie McNeal upped his career reception total to 140, moving him into fourth place in WKU history
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- McNeal has at least one catch in 25-straight games and at least four catches in 10-straight games
- Sophomore WR Taywan Taylor scored his second-career TD on a 15-yard pass from Doughty in the first quarter
- Junior wide receiver Antwane Grant reeled in five catches for 51 yards and scored his third TD of the season
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- Grant has at least 50 receiving yards in every game this season
- Sophomore RB Anthony `Ace' Wales racked up a career highs in rushing yards (138), TDs (3) and carries (14)
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- Wales' 75-yard TD run in the first quarter was the longest by a Hilltopper in the FBS era and the longest since Stephen Willis scampered 86 yards for a TD against Troy on Nov. 10, 2007
- Wales became the third different WKU player to score three TDs in a single game since the 2013 season
- Wales' three first-half TD runs were the most by a WKU player since Antonio Andrews scored four first-half TDs against Morgan State on Sept. 21, 2013
- Redshirt senior DB Ricardo Singh snagged his first-career INT and returned it 85 yards for a go-ahead TD as third quarter expired
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- Singh's 85-yard interception return was the third longest in school history and longest since Lamont Meachem returned a pick 85 yards against Kentucky State on Sept. 19, 1981
- Redshirt senior DB Cam Thomas recovered the third fumble of his career and returned it 37 yards in the fourth quarter
- Junior linebacker Daqual Randall tallied a career-high 15 tackles and forced his first career fumble
- Redshirt junior DL Gavin Rocker recorded his sixth-career sack to force an errant UAB field goal attempt
- Redshirt junior DL Bryan Shorter recorded a sack for the fourth time in the past five games
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- Shorter has recorded a tackle for loss in all five games this season, with lost yardage totaling 36
- Junior LB Nick Dejon Brown piled up a career high 11 tackles. He now has 28 tackles over his last three games
- Redshirt junior DB Prince Charles Iworah forced his first career fumble in the first quarter
- Redshirt senior DB Rico Brown recovered his first career fumble in the first quarter
