• After six weeks of the 2021 season and 701 days since going 5-0 at home in 2019, the top-ranked UWF football program returns to Blue Wahoos Stadium where it will play host to #12 West Georgia Saturday evening.
ABOUT UWF
• UWF enters week seven of the 2021 season at 5-0 and ranked No. 1 in the country. The Argonauts have been the consensus No. 1 team in the country the entire season.
• The Argos average 44.8 points per game (4th nationally) on 461.5 yards of total offense, led by 315 yards through the air. Dating back to the national championship game in 2019, UWF has scored at least 35 points in its last six games, establishing a new school record.
• UWF's defense has been outstanding the past six quarters, holding opponents to 13 points and just 474 yards of total offense - 79 yards per quarter..
ABOUT WEST GEORGIA
• West Georgia is 5-1 overall with a 3-1 mark in GSC play, and moved up one spot to number 12 in this week's AFCA Division II Coaches Poll. The Wolves rebounded from a 38-20 loss to West Alabama with a 40-21 win over Mississippi College last week.
• QB Harrison Frost has been the star for UWG this season, passing for a GSC-best 1,956 yards (326 ypg) with 13 TD to nine different receivers.
• WR Mechane Slade leads the GSC in receiving yards with 567 and in receptions with 39. Slade's receiving yards are 22nd in the country.
THE COACHES
• Pete Shinnick was hired as the first head coach in program history on Feb. 2, 2014. The 1988 Colorado graduate is 40-17 in four seasons at UWF. He is 143-63 in his 19th season as a head coach, with previous stops at UNC Pembroke (50-24 from 2007-13) and Azusa Pacific (53-22 from 1999-2005). Shinnick was named the 2019 D2Football.com Division 2 National Coach of the Year and the 2017 AFCA & D2Football.com D2 National Coach of the Year. He was also the AFCA Region 2 Coach of the Year in 2017.
• David Dean is in his fourth season (fifth year) at West Georgia, where he is 30-12. The veteran coach is 109-39 as a head coach, including 79-27 at Valdosta State from 2007-15 where he won two national titles.
UWF STRONG AT HOME... ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT
• UWF has enjoyed a winning record in three of its four seasons, amassing a 12-7 home mark overall. The Argonauts have been especially successful in night games (5 pm kickoff or later), going 10-2.
• After the 5-0 home record in 2019 and the 63-14 win over Southwest Baptist at Pen Air Field five weeks ago, UWF has the 10th-longest active streak in Division 2.
THE ORIGINAL ARGONAUTS
• Due to a variety of factors, UWF has two student-athletes that have been with the program since the practice season of 2015 - Trent Archie and Rodney Coates.
• Two additional Argos have been around since the inaugural season of 2016 - Ka'Ron Ashley and Marcus Clayton.
