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OPENING KICK
• Following a heartbreaking double-overtime loss to Delta State last week, UWF returns to play against North Greenville on Breast Cancer Awareness Day, with fans encouraged to wear pink. The Argonauts and Crusaders will kick off at Pen Air Field on Saturday night at 4 p.m.
ABOUT UWF
• UWF enters the game at 2-1 on the season and 0-1 in Gulf South Conference action. The Argonauts dropped to No. 14 in the AFCA Top 25 poll and No. 10 in the D2Football.com poll following the 45-42 double overtime loss to Delta State last week.
• UWF is fourth in the country with 493.7 total offense yards per game - 258.3 through the air and 235.3 on the ground. The Argos are third nationally with 8.05 yards per play.
• Junior QB Peewee Jarrett has completed 56 percent of his passes and is eighth in the country with 10 passing touchdowns.
• Shomari Mason and Ra'veion Hargrove lead the UWF rushing attack, which is ranked 14th in the country and second in the GSC with 235.3 ypg. The Argos are third in D2 with 6.9 yards per rush. Mason is 12th nationally with 120.7 ypg and 14th with 7.4 yards per rush. Hargrove averages 8.5 yards per rush with 153 total yards.
• UWF averaged 45.7 points per game and 485.3 yards of total offense in 2021. The squad churned-out 170.0 rushing yards per game while passing for 315.3 ypg - all school records for the five years of its history.
• The Argonauts were the Gulf South Conference Co-Champions and qualified for the NCAA Playoffs for the third time in the last four championship seasons.
• UWF was picked to finish second in the GSC Preseason Coaches Poll and received two of eight possible first-place votes.
SHINNICK APPROACHING COACHING MILESTONES
• Pete Shinnick was hired as the first head coach in program history on Feb. 2, 2014 and has done a marvelous job since day one building the program from the ground up.
• 2022 has the potential to be a very memorable one for UWF head coach Pete Shinnick. He is in his sixth season at UWF (eighth year overall) and 20th as a college head coach, and enters the North Greenville game at 149-66 (.695) overall and 46-20 (.703) at UWF. He currently ranks eighth among active D2 head coaches in career victories.
• 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.
• He is 13-9 all-time in the postseason - 9-4 in the Division II Playoffs and 4-5 in the NAIA Playoffs while at Azusa Pacific from 1999-2005.
SHINNICK TEAMS STRONG AFTER A LOSS
• Pete Shinnick has lost 64 games in his career, with 51 of those coming before the end of a season. As a result, he is 36-14 (.720) after a loss during his 20-year head coaching career. He is 10-5 at UWF and 8-2 in the team's last 10 following a loss
ABOUT NORTH GREENVILLE
• North Greenville is 2-2 on the season and among a group of four GSC teams at 1-0. The Crusaders are on a 2-game winning streak after beating Mississippi College, 41-19, two weeks ago and Findlay, 34-27, last week. They opened the season with losses to Furman (52-0) and #13 Newberry (29-22).
• Freshman QB Dylan Ramirez has started the last three games & thrown for 735 yards (245.0 per game) with five TD & one interception.
• RB Corey Watkins has back-to-back 100-yard rushing games and is second in the GSC with 114.3 rushing ypg.
• WR Doug Washington has 26 receptions for 426 yards and two TDs to lead the receiving corps.
SERIES HISTORY
• UWF leads the series with NGU, 3-0. The Argos won both games in Tigerville, S.C. in 2018 and 2021, along with a narrow 17-14 win in Pensacola in 2019.
• NGU's offense has been held to less than 300 yards in all three meetings, averaging 274.7 yards and 11.3 points per game.
DURDEN TIES SCHOOL RECORD WITH FIFTH 100-YARD GAME
• Senior WR David Durden caught five passes for 106 yards last week against Delta State. A big chunk came on a 75-yard TD play that saw him catch an 8-yard ball and then outrun a number of Statesmen 67 yards to the house. He added two more catches for 14 yards to finish with 106 yards on five receptions. It was his UWF record-tying fifth 100-yard game in two seasons.
• He joins Ishmel Morrow (2016-17), Antoine Griffin (2016-17), Tate Lehtio (2016-19) and Quentin Randolph (2016-19) who all had five 100-yard receiving games in their careers.
MASON CLOSING IN ON UWF CAREER RUSHING RECORDS
• Junior RB Shomari Mason busted out for a career-high 214 yards on 29 carries against DSU last week, establishing UWF single-game records for both categories (tied Chris Schwarz's 29 carries from IUP in 2017).
• As a result, it pushed Mason's 3-year career totals to 1,793 yards on 223 rushes.
UWF CAREER RUSHING LEADERS
Rushing Yards/ Rushing
Name Yards Carries Rush TD
1. Chris Schwarz (2016-18) 1,992 413 4.82 11
2. Anthony Johnson, Jr. (2017-19, 21) 1,668 372 4.48 20
3. Shomari Mason (2019, 21-pr) 1,793 223 8.04 19
HARRIS PROVIDING BOOST TO RETURN GAME
• Redshirt senior Isaiah Harris is tenth in the country with 32.4 yards per kickoff return. As a team, the Argos are fifth nationally with 31.3 yards per return
DAWSON AMONG PUNTING ELITE
• UWF punter Steve Dawson is averaging 41.5 yards per punt on six kicks this season. That would rank 30th in the country except he doesn't have enough attempts to meet the NCAA minimum of 3.6 punts per team game to qualify for the rankings. He has three of his six punts of at least 40 yards, including two last week.
IN OCTOBER
• UWF is 14-7 (.667) all-time in the month of October. The Argos have gone 8-1 in their last nine.
ARGOS BUST OUT THE BIG PLAYS IN WEEK ONE
• UWF had four plays of 20 yards or more against Warner, with all four coming through the air.
• Peewee Jarrett completed 12 passes in his UWF debut last week, with four going for at least 20 yards. Three of his four passing TDs were for 40, 43 and 51 yards, with two to Caden Leggett and
one to Nate Howard.
ARGOS HAVE FORCED TURNOVERS IN 58 OF 66 GAMES
• The UWF defense forced a school-record six turnovers twice in 2019 at West Georgia and at Ferris State. Those big plays were part of the 15-consecutive games with a turnover. Sadly, the streak ended in the 2021 opener at McNeese State. But it has continued in the 11 subsequent games.
• Further inspection shows the Argonauts have gotten at least one turnover in 58 of their 65 all-time games. UWF is 43-13 when getting a turnover and 2-5 when unable to force a sudden change.
• The turnover prize for UWF is a navy blue Turnover Shield and was created by Defensive Coordinator Darian Dulin prior to the 2018 campaign. The 3-inch round wooden disk has a large UWF logo on a navy blue background. The shield, which is a replica of what Jason and the Argonauts may have used in mythological times, is then signed in silver marker by the player(s) who had a hand in creating the turnover.
WEEK ONE WAS A HOT ONE
• With last Saturday's kickoff temperature at 88 degrees, it tied for the fourth-hottest game UWF has faced in it's 64-game history.
HOTTEST GAMES IN UWF HISTORY
Temp.* Weather Opp. Date Result
91° Sunny at A&M Commerce 9/18/21 W, 35-17
91° Clear VUL 9/21/19 W, 69-0
90° Clear, 103° Heat Index at McNeese 9/4/21 W, 42-36
90° Clear Mississippi College 9/28/19 W, 27-21 OT
88° Clear, 95° Heat Index Warner 9/3/22 W, 52-3
88° Clear Valdosta State 9/23/17 L, 19-30
87° Clear Delta State 10/14/17 L, 25-28
85° Sunny Southwest Baptist 9/11/21 W, 63-14
85° Raining Florida Tech 10/20/18 L, 28-30
85° Sunny, Tropical Storm at Ave Maria 9/3/16 W, 45-0
84° Hot, Humid at Shorter 9/14/19 W, 42-14
84° Hot, Humid Missouri S&T 9/10/16 W, 45-28
* Fahrenheit temperature at kickoff.
ABOUT PEN AIR FIELD
• Last Saturday was a special day for the UWF community as the team opened its first full season on campus with the win over Warner at Pen Air Field. The team's primary practice facility had previously hosted last year's game against Southwest Baptist, the annual Blue-Green Spring Game and preseason scrimmages.
• Opened in February 2016, Pen Air Field is the on-campus home of the UWF Football program. The artificial turf surface is also used by the UWF Strength & Conditioning department for training of all 15 intercollegiate teams.
• In September 2016, the University announced a $1 million gift from longtime supporter Pen Air Federal Credit Union for naming rights to the field.
• The Darrell Gooden Center was constructed at the South end of the field and opened in April 2018. The $7 million, 32,700-square-foot facility, houses the football locker room and equipment room, an 8,000-square foot strength & conditioning center, the UWF Usha Kundu, MD College of Health and the Florida State University College of Medicine's Pensacola Regional Campus.
UWF PICKED SECOND IN GSC PRESEASON POLL, EIGHT ARGOS NAMED PRESEASON ALL-CONFERENCE
• UWF was picked second in a vote of Gulf South Conference coaches in the 2022 GSC Preseason Football Poll that was announced in August.
• UWF earned a pair of first-place votes and ended with 43 polling points, just behind Valdosta State who had the other six first-place votes and came in with 48 poll points. The team's shared the regular-season title a year ago following UWF's 61-42 win over the Blazers in Pensacola.
• West Georgia was third with 38 points, followed by West Alabama, Delta State, Mississippi College, North Greenville and Shorter.
• The Argos had six student-athletes from the offensive side of the ball and two on defense among the 30-player preseason group.
• On offense, running back Shomari Mason, wide receivers David Durden and Larry Rembert, and offensive linemen Dalton Simpler, Juac Angoi and Jacob Bruce were voted by the coaches, while the defense saw linebacker Kee Whetzel and defensive back Shannon Showers selected.
• Bruce, Durden, Mason and Simpler were all-GSC picks following the 2021 campaign.
