FOOTBALL GAMEDAY: Cardinals Host Kent State For Wednesday #MACtion

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MUNCIE, Ind. -- The Ball State football team will put its unblemished home record on the line Wednesday when it hosts Kent State for its lone Midweek #MACtion game of the 2025 season. The Cardinals have won three straight in the series versus the Golden Flashes, including a 37-35 win last season in Kent, Ohio. Ball State used a 41-yard touchdown run by Vaughn Pemberton in the games' final moments to seal the victory, fending off both a fourth-quarter storm from Kent State and an actual rainstorm.

- The Ball State football team will put its unblemished home record on the line Wednesday when it hosts Kent State for its lone Midweek #MACtion game of the 2025 season. The Cardinals have won three straight in the series versus the Golden Flashes, including a 37-35 win last season in Kent, Ohio. Ball State used a 41-yard touchdown run by Vaughn Pemberton in the games' final moments to seal the victory, fending off both a fourth-quarter storm from Kent State and an actual rainstorm.

- The last time at "The Scheu" the Cardinals tallied a 42-28 homecoming win over Akron on Saturday, Oct. 18. It was Ball State's fourth straight homecoming victory and moved the squad to 3-0 at home for the first time since the 2020 season.

- The Ball State offense has shined at Scheumann Stadium so far this season, averaging 32.0 points per game. The Cardinals two highest-scoring games of the year have come at home; a 42-28 victory over Akron and a 34-29 win over New Hampshire. Ball State averages 232.0 yards on the ground and 149.3 yard through the air at "The Scheu" in 2025, while scoring 12 offensive touchdowns and one defensive TD, along with one field goal and a safety.

- Ball State defensive end Nathan Voorhis continued his stellar start to the 2025 season last Saturday at Northern Illinois, picking up his MAC-leading 10th sack of the season. Voorhis, who enters the week ranked second nationally in total sacks, has earned at least one sack in six of Ball State's eight games, including a career-high 3.5 in the Oct. 4 victory over Ohio.

- With four games remaining, Voorhis' 10 sacks are within reach of Ball State's official single-season record of 11.5, and its all-time mark of 13. Voorhis also is second on the team in overall tackles (37), trailing only Alfred Chea (44). Voorhis, who picked up six tackles at NIU, has a total of 13 tackles for loss this season to set the opposition back 74 yards.

- Offensively, Qua Ashley and Kiael Kelly remain the Cardinals' rushing leaders with 513 and 417 net rush yards this season. Kelly's 982 passing yards this season already have surpassed his first three seasons combined (608), more than doubling his career total to 1,590.

- Over the last three games, the Ball State defense has forced seven turnovers -- four interceptions and three fumble recoveries. The Cardinals collected just one turnover in the first five games. It is the most turnovers in a three-game span since the 2021 season, when Ball State forced eight over the final three games of the regular season.

WHAT A WIN MEANS:
- Ball State will be looking to move to 4-0 in Scheumann Stadium for the first time since the 2013 season in which the Cardinals went 6-0 at home and boasted a 10-3 overall record to earn a berth into the GoDaddy Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.
- Would move the Cardinals to 3-2 in MAC play for the first time since the 2022 season, when Ball State used a 27-20 road victory over Kent State to reach the mark.

INSIDE THE SERIES: KENT STATE
- The Cardinals and Golden Flashes have met 32 times on the gridiron with Ball State claiming 24 victories, including last year's 37-35 road win. It tied as the second-closest road game against Kent State in series history.
- Ball State's .750 winning percentage against Kent State is the Cardinals' highest mark against a MAC opponent.
- Ball State has won five of the past six meetings against Kent State and has triumphed in 13 out of 16 match ups at home.
- The Cardinals have won the last five meetings played at Scheumann Stadium, outscoring the Golden Flashes 184 to 77 during the run, for an average margin of victory of 21.4 points per game.
- As part of the five-game home winning streak, Ball State's 52 points in the Sept. 29, 2018, victory were the most scored by either team in the series, with the second-most being 50 points by the Cardinals in the Nov. 9, 1996, showdown.
- Kent State has won consecutive games in the series just twice. Ball State's longest streak of consecutive wins was 11 -- at one point winning 14 out of 15 meetings between 1986 and 2008.

FOOTBALL GAMEDAY: Cardinals Host Kent State For Wednesday #MACtion

Players Mentioned

Qua Ashley

Alfred Chea

Kiael Kelly

Vaughn Pemberton

Nathan Voorhis

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