PREVIEW: Eagles head to Coastal for crucial game

The Georgia Southern football team takes the field for the final time of the regular season as it looks to bounce back against Coastal Carolina on Saturday afternoon at Brooks Stadium. Kickoff is set for 15:32 and the match will be carried on ESPN+. The game will also be available via radio on the Georgia Southern Sports Network. Here’s everything you need to know about the game:

Match 11: Saturday 23 November 2024 • 15:32
Location: Conway, SC (Brooks Stadium; 21,000)

Records:
Coastal Carolina: 5-5, 2-4 SBC
Georgia Southern: 6-4, 4-2 SBC

Broadcast information
Broadcast: ESPN+
PBP: Jeff McCarragher, Analyst: Nate Ross

Radio: Georgia Southern Sports Network
PBP: Danny Reed (@GSEaglesVoice); Analyst: Terry Harvin (@TerryHarvin); Sidelines: Frank Sulkowski and Anthony Beck II

Radio Affiliates (PDF)

GS: GAME NOTES (PDF)

Inside the series

Overall record: GS leads, 6-4

In Statesboro: GS leads 3-1

In Conway: A draw, 3-3

Beck vs. GS: 0-1

Helton vs. CCU: 1-1

Helton vs. Beck: Helton leads 1-0

Current Streak: GS, won one (2023-)

Last meeting: GS 38, CCU 28 (2023)

Longest GS series: Three (2006-10)

Longest CCU row: Three (2020-22)

Biggest GS win: 17 points (2006 and 2010)

Biggest CCU win: 20 points (2021 in Statesboro)

GS vs. current Sun Belt members: 74-72-1

GS vs. teams from South Carolina: 69-28

GS in the State of South Carolina: 27-16

GS at Brooks Stadium: 3-4

Helton at Brooks Stadium: 0-2

Note:

• This will be the 11th football meeting between Southern and Coastal in a series dating back to 2006. The Eagles lead the series 6-4 after winning 38-28 last year at home.
• The Eagles are 3-4 all-time at Brooks Stadium after falling to Ohio in last year’s Myrtle Beach Bowl. Georgia Southern hasn’t won at Brooks Stadium since 2018, has dropped three straight and head coach Clay Helton is 0-2 at Brooks Stadium.
• The Chants had won the previous three games against GS before the Eagles won at home last season. In the previous two games between the two schools played in Conway, CCU won 34-30 (2022) and 28-14 (2020).
• Georgia Southern has lost four games this season but has bounced back to win a road game the next week each time. Eagles lost to Boise, then won at Nevada; lost at Ole Miss, then won at Georgia State; lost at Old Dominion then won at South Alabama; and is coming off a loss to Troy with a road game at Coastal Carolina this week.
• The Eagles are 69-28 against teams from the Palmetto State and are 27-16 all-time in games played in South Carolina.

Countdown to Kickoff
10: Georgia Southern and Coastal Carolina have met 10 previous times with the Eagles leading 6-4. Coastal had won the previous three contests before the Eagles won at home last season.
9: Senior Gavin Stewart has joined nine field goals this season, with five of them coming from 40 yards or longer (on six attempts).
8: Led by four apiece Josh Dallas and Cobb Valley, eight different Eagle receivers have caught at least one touchdown pass this season.
7: Georgia Southern has 14 one-score games in the nearly three full seasons under head coach Clay Heltonwin seven of them and loses seven.
6: Jayson Foster scored a school record six rushing touchdowns in 2007 win at Coastal Carolina.
5: Linebacker Marques Watson-Trent hair five double-digit tackle performances this season and 15 for his career.
4: Georgia Southern has played one road game back-to-back four losses this season, including this week at Coastal Carolina. The Eagles have won all three of those games so far.
3: The Eagles have lost three consecutive games at Brooks Stadium dating back to 2020 after starting 2-0.
2: This is other game on the Eagles’ 2024 schedule against a team from the Palmetto State. Georgia Southern dispatched of South Carolina State in the season opener.
1: Georgia Southern is ranked first in the Sun Belt and 15th in the FBS in net punting, averaging 42.27 net yards per punt. kick.

Next:
November 30; vs. App State

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