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Ball State Closes Home Schedule Saturday Versus Bowling Green
November 22, 2024 | Football
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MUNCIE, Ind. --Â Ball State closes the 2024 home schedule Saturday at 2 p.m., against Bowling Green, hosting the Falcons with two regular season games to play. Celebrating the 100th season of football on the Ball State campus, the Cardinals will announce their 32-member All-Century Team presented by Gainbridge. The All-Century team will be named prior to kickoff. The game is sponsored by IU Health.
** Ball State will honor 21 senior student-athletes and staff who are participating in their final home game on Saturday. Senior student-athletes playing their final home game are: Brandon Berger, Colin Blazek, Brian Cooey Jr., Ethan Crowe, Tucker Dunn, Tyce Ferrell, Malcolm Gillie, Damon Kaylor, Kevin Meeder, Jon Mucciolo, Keionte Newson, Nathan Reichert, Braedon Sloan and Riley Tolsma. Congratulations to our Cardinal seniors!
** Due to Saturday's senior celebration prior to kickoff, the Cardinals will arrive to Scheumann Stadium 15 minutes early. The Cardinal Walk, usually scheduled two hours prior to every kickoff, will take place at 11:45 a.m., this Saturday. Arrive early and welcome the Cardinals and their seniors on Saturday's special day!
** Nine-year head coach Mike Neu ended his tenure as the leader of Ball State's football program with last week's overtime defeat at Buffalo. Sixth-year offensive line coach and running game coordinator Colin Johnson was named as interim head coach on Saturday, Nov. 16. A 2003 Ball State graduate and former team captain for the Cardinals, Johnson takes the reigns of the Ball State program in his first game as a college head coach on Saturday.
**Â The Cardinals suffered a bitter defeat at Buffalo, 51-48 in overtime, after leading by two touchdowns with less than seven minutes to play. Kadin Semonza threw for a career-high 331 yards and four touchdowns, and Justin Bowick coraled seven passes for 148 yards and two scores. Tight end Tanner Koziol caught a career-high 11 passes for 95 yards and a TD, and Ball State led 45-31 following Jackson Courville's 27-yard field goal with 7:08 remaining.
**Â Safety DD Snyder II nabbed a pair of interceptions and a career-high 11 tackles in the loss at Buffalo. Sniper LB/safety George Udo paced the Cardinals with a career-high 13 stops.
**Â Tanner Koziol's 79 catches this season are the most ever by a Ball State tight end. He already is the first TE in Ball State history with over 70 catches and 700 yards, and he needs just one more catch and 76 total yards to reach 80 & 800. His 79 grabs rank seventh in Ball State history by any receiver and they are the most by a Cardinal since Willie Snead's record season with 106 grabs in 2013. He is 202 yards shy of the Cardinals' single-season mark for receiving yards - 926 by Darius Hill in 2007.
**Â Koziol is a national semifinalist for the John Mackey Award, presented to the country's most outstanding tight end. Darius Hill, in 2008, is the only other Ball State player to receive that distinction.
**Â The 100th anniversary of Ball State's first season in 1924 coincides with the 100th season on the field, given that the Cardinals didn't field a team in 1943 due to World War II. Season long celebrations of the 100th season will be displayed at Scheumann Stadium this season. Similarly, it is the program's 50th season in the MAC -- formally joining the league in 1973 and playing its first football games in 1975.
BY THE NUMBERS:Â
8.0 - Tanner Koziol is 5th in FBS rankings with 8.0 catches per game. Receptions over the last six weeks: 9, 9, 9, 8, 9 and 9.Â
65 - Ball State's longest offensive scoring play this season came on last week's 65-yard throw from Kadin Semonza to Cam Pickett.Â
11 - Still in his third college season, Tanner Koziol (148) needs 11 catches to break the Cardinals' career mark for receptions by a TE (158).
520 - Ball State's 520 yards in total offense against Buffalo were the most by the Cardinals since totaling 536 vs. EMU on Nov. 11, 2020.Â
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