CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – The Campbellsville University football team will set out to play their final game of the 2019 season as they hit the road one last time for McKenzie, Tenn. to face Bethel University Saturday afternoon for a 1:30 p.m. CT/2:30 p.m. ET kickoff.
 
The voice of Fighting Tiger football, Jim Freeman will be on the call Saturday afternoon alongside Matt Payton on the CU Sports Network and 88.7 The Tiger.
 
TIGER CLAWZ

• The Tigers dropped their final home game of the season 28-13 to Cumberland University on Campbellsville's senior day.
• The Phoenix took a 14-0 lead in the second quarter after a scoreless first 15 minutes as Cumberland scored on a pair of Telvin Rucker rushes to cap off a pair of long drives, the first one of 71 yards and the second was a 91-yard, six-play drive.
• Campbellsville answered with a long, 47-yard touchdown run from Ormani Zanders to cut into the lead going into halftime as Zanders had a big game, finishing with a career-high 133 yards on the ground to lead all players in the game.
• The running attack for the Phoenix was too much for Campbellsville to handle, however, as Cumberland finished with 276 total rushing yards as a team by the end of the game with only one individual over the 100-yard mark in Treyl Sheppard.
• The biggest play of the contest came in the third quarter with Cumberland leading 14-10 and the Tigers with the ball. Quarterback Talaileva Sufia was pressured on a pass play and as he got rid of the ball defensive lineman Justin Brown dropped back, intercepted the pass and returned it 36 yards for a touchdown as the play also knocked Sufia out of the game.

 
SERIES FACTS: ROAD TEAM ADVANTAGE

• Campbellsville and Bethel have faced off for the last seven seasons with this year's meeting being the eighth-straight matchup between the Wildcats and Tigers and 16th overall meeting.
• The road team has won the last three games in this meeting with Bethel earning wins in Campbellsville last season 49-13 and also in 2016 in a 59-53 shootout. The Tigers earned a win in McKenzie in 2017 43-37 in overtime.
• In that overtime win for the Tigers, Chantz Goodman scored on a 20-yard run after CU stopped Bethel on a fourth-down play to keep the Wildcats off the board on their overtime possession to give Campbellsville the victory.
• Along with the road team earning the last three meetings in the series, the Tigers have never lost a game in McKenzie against Bethel over the 15 times that these two teams have played.
• On the opposite end, Bethel does have a 5-3 record in Campbellsville overall so the road team truly has held the advantage in the series.

 
SCOUTING BETHEL UNIVERSITY

• The Wildcats are coming off of a 50-34 loss on the road to Pikeville after breaking a four-game losing streak with their homecoming win over Thomas More 35-28.
• Defensively, Bethel is averaging 36.1 points per game through their 10 games so far with four games on the season where BU has allowed 49 or more points with their season-high allowed came in the opener against Lamar University when they allowed 65 in a loss.
• Bethel has done their fair share of point scoring as well with their 25.8 points per game average and games of 49, 48, 35, 35, and 34 points this season with all but one of those point outputs coming in wins.
• Offensively the Wildcats use a strong rushing attack led by running back De'Ontay Tate who has 567 yards along with dual threat QB Christian Arrambide who has 882 passing yards and 179 yards on the ground.
• BU also boast the NAIA leader in tackles as Jakobe Griffin is atop the tackles leaderboard with 123 total tackles for a 12.3 tackles per game average.

 
ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD

• Campbellsville finishes up their 2019 season with this final road game against Bethel after going winless at home for the first time since their 0-10 season in 2007.
• The Tigers have been significantly better on offense during their four road games compared to the five games they lost at Finley Stadium this season with a 28.25 points per game average on the road compared to just a 14 points per game average at home through the five games.
• The lone win on the season so far for CU football has come on the road when they toppled Union College 52-14 back on Sept. 21.
• Campbellsville suffered their only shutout loss of the season in their home opener this season when Reinhardt University earned a 28-0 win on Sept. 14, after that game CU's lowest point total in a game did come in a road loss to University of the Cumberlands three weeks ago.
• Points allowed has been a different story for the Tigers in terms of their home/road splits with opponents averaging 36.25 in road games and 29 points in home games.

 
SACKS MAKING THE DIFFERENCE

• Pass protection has been a main issue for the CU offense throughout the season and in turn, the defense has had an ability to pressure opposing quarterbacks this season with the Tigers suffering 54 sacks against while only having 16 sacks of their own this season.
• Campbellsville allowed at least two sacks in every game besides their season-opening against Lindsey Wilson where neither Chris Lubinsky nor Chase Wilson were sacked in the game.
• Conversely, the Tiger defense has had no more than four sacks in a game and has had two instances of finishing a game without a sack in the games against Reinhardt and Pikeville.
• Campbellsville has allowed double-digit sacks in two games this season as Pikeville recorded 11 sacks on Homecoming on their way to a 35-15 as they also allowed 10 sacks to Georgetown on Oct. 5 as GC earned a 23-14 victory.

 
THE YEAR THAT WAS 2019

• With the 2019 season coming to an end, looking back at the season shows a focus on individual accomplishments.
• Receiver Kendon Young became the all-time career receiving yards leader at CU after passing the previous record against Thomas More on Oct. 12.
• Weekly conference honors have been handed out to Darius Moore and Marcus McCants on the defensive end as well as Noah Bicksler earning a Special Teams Player of the Week honor in the Mid-South Conference.