2-0 Tigers Prepare for Family Weekend Football Battle with Sewanee

September 26, 2008

tiger blackstock042.jpg September 26, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - "It's going to be a fun one," DePauw University head football coach Matt Walker says of tomorrow's Family Weekend matchup with Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference foe the University of the South (Sewanee). "They're playing with a lot of confidence," Walker tells the Banner-Graphic of the visitors from the south.

Kickoff is at 1 p.m. at Blackstock Stadium and admission is free. Like all DePauw football games, the contest can be heard live on student radio station WGRE (91.5 FM or via this link).

"DePauw (2-0, 1-0 SCAC) has faced two spread offenses in the first two weeks of the season, but this week they face a more traditional run-first kind of offense," writes Jared Jernagan. "This kind of game could suit the Tigers well, as they rank No. 4 in the country against the run." His story adds, "The Sewanee (2-1, 1-0 SCAC) ground game is led by Trey Reliford, who averages 92.0 yards per game and has three touchdowns on the year. As a team, they run for 161.3 yards per game."

"They're a true running team," Walker, a 1999 graduate of DePauw, says of Sewanee.

DePauw is coming off a 27-14 win at Centre College last Saturday, where Walker saw improvement over the Tigers 52-17 win versus Anderson University. "They played a lot better and got back to playing the way we like to play -- physical," says the coach. "We ran the ball much better and more consistent play our of the entire unit. That is a veteran group of guys who we really trust and who I have complete confidence in."