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• Kennesaw State football wraps up its two-game road swing when it heads West to take on UTEP on Saturday, Nov. 9 at the Sun Bowl.
• The game will mark the first Saturday that Kennesaw State has played on since Sept. 28 due to Conference USA’s midweek action during the month of October, officially marking 42 days in-between weekend contests.
• Kennesaw State and UTEP will be meeting for the first time in program history, but KSU head coach Brian Bohannon and UTEP HC Scotty Walden have met previously when Walden was the leader at Austin Peay.
• Kennesaw State is coming off a gauntlet of an opening slate to start its time as a member of Conference USA, playing three of the top four teams in the league’s standings through its first four conference games.
• Kennesaw State has been markedly better in the ground attack of late, averaging 157.5 yards/game and recording five rushing touchdowns in the last four games. This comes after averaging just 73.0 yards per game and tallying two TDs through the first four games of the season.
• Helping spur that effort has been Sr. RB Michael Benefield, who has 312 rushing yards and three TDs over the last four games to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark for his career at Kennesaw State.
• Defensively, both r-Jr. LB Garland Benyard and r-Jr. DB Tyler Hallum have shined of late.
• With a huge tackle for loss last week against WKU, Benyard has now tallied 7.0 tackles for loss on the season. A whopping 6.5 of them have come over the last three games.
• On the backend, Hallum has been terrific the last three weeks, totaling 17 tackles, one interception and five pass breakups during that time frame.
• Last week against WKU, Hallum led Kennesaw State’s defense with seven tackles.
• Also continuing to shine defensively has been Kennesaw State’s tackling leader r-Jr. DB/OLB Sidney Porter, who has recorded 29 tackles and 4.0 tackles for loss since moving to outside linebacker in Week 5.
