WEEK 5: 'Cats Set for Battle with PFL Rival San Diego

Saturday, September 30

Davidson, N.C.

12:00 PM

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WEEK 5: 'Cats Set for Battle with PFL Rival San Diego

9/27/2023 11:36:00 AM | Football

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GAME 5 | SEPT. 30, 2023 | 12:00 PM (ET) | RICHARDSON STADIUM (5,000) | DAVIDSON, N.C.

DAVIDSON WILDCATS
2023 Record: 2-2 (1-0 PFL)
2022 Record: 8-4 (6-2 PFL)
Head Coach: Scott Abell
Davidson Record: 36-21, 6th year
Career Record: 75-45, 12th year

SAN DIEGO TOREROS
2023 Record: 1-3 (1-0 PFL)
2022 Record: 5-5 (4-3 PFL)
Head Coach: Brandon Moore
San Diego Record: 1-3, 1st year
Career Record: 14-6

INSIDE THE SERIES
Meetings: 18
Series Record: San Diego leads, 14-4
First Meeting: Davidson Won, 27-13 (10/14/00)
Last Meeting: San Diego Won, 31-14 (11/12/22)
Streak: Lost 1
In Davidson: 1-8
In San Diego: 6-3
Abell vs. San Diego: 2-3

1ST AND 10

Davidson resumes conference play this weekend when PFL rival San Diego visits Richardson Stadium for a noon kickoff Saturday.
Coming off an 84-6 win over St. Andrews, the Wildcats enter 2-2 overall and 1-0 in league action.
In their win over the Knights, the 'Cats compiled 716 yards of total offense.
Davidson has won 10 straight PFL games on Stephen B. Smith Field.
In all, the Wildcats have won 14 of their last 15 at home.
The 'Cats, who have won two of the last three conference titles, are 23-7 in PFL play dating back to the 2019 season.
Davidson ranks among FCS leaders in total offense (469.2 ypg / 7th), rushing offense (276.2 ypg / 5th), team passing efficiency (193.82 / 1st), scoring offense (42.8 / 4th), 3rd down conversion pct. defense (0.208 / 3rd) and first down offense (92 / 12th).
With the win over St. Andrews, Head Coach Scott Abell moved into a tie for third all-time on Davidson's career wins' list with 36 victories. He is just nine wins shy of becoming the program's all-time winningest coach.

INSIDE THE SERIES

Despite winning two of the last three, Davidson trails the all-time series with San Diego, 14-4.
The Toreros won last year's meeting, 31-14, in San Diego.
In the Spring of 2021 (CoVID), the Wildcats ended San Diego's 39-game conference winning streak with a 31-25 victory on the road en route to their first of two straight PFL titles.

LAST MEETING | SAN DIEGO 31, DAVIDSON 14 -- NOV. 12, 2022 | SAN DIEGO, CALIF.

Davidson suffered a 31-14 setback at San Diego Nov. 12, 2022 inside Torero Stadium.
After trading scoring drives to open the game, San Diego grabbed control with 17 unanswered to close the half highlighted by a pair of Re-Al Mitchell touchdown runs, including a 75-yard run to break the 7-7 tie.
Despite the setback, Mark McCurdy scored two more touchdowns for the Wildcats giving him a team-best 12 on the season. In addition, it marks the fourth straight contest and fifth time in 2022 the junior slot receiver has recorded a multiple-score game.
Back under center for the first time since Davidson's win at Drake, Jayden Waddell completed 15-of-20 passes for 196 yards, a touchdown and one interception.
Coy Williams was the Wildcats' leading rusher, gaining 72 yards on just nine carries.
Davidson (435 total yards) out-gained San Diego (413), but scored on just two of its six trips into the red zone.
Aaron Warren led the Wildcat defensive with six tackles on the day.

LAST TIME OUT | DAVIDSON 84, ST. ANDREWS 6 - SEPT. 23, 2023 | DAVIDSON, N.C.

Eleven Wildcats scored touchdowns as Davidson struck early and often in an 84-6 dismantling of St. Andrews Saturday night at Richardson Stadium.
Aaron Maione was the lone Wildcat with multiple scores. He found the end zone on second-quarter runs of 26 and 29 yards, as Davidson scored the game's first 35 points and led 49-6 by the half.
The Wildcats got started with a 12-yard touchdown pass from Coulter Cleland to Sam Hedrick at the 9:35 mark of the first quarter. Will Cox then scored on a 1-yard run on the next possession, and Cleland found Maxwell Weaver on a 29-yard scoring play early in the second quarter to make it 21-0.
Davidson closed the half with scoring runs by Mason Sheron (10 yards) and Mari Adams (5 yards).
A missed Wildcats field goal on the first possession of the second half actually set up another score. On the next play, defensive lineman Daniel Harrington scooped up a fumble and rumbled 17 yards to the end zone to make it 56-6.
From there, the Wildcats wrapped up the scoring with touchdown runs by LJ Phillips Jr., Robert Lamar, Tahir Henry and Isaiah Sepand.
The Davidson defense held St. Andrews (0-4) to 115 yards and three yards per play. Most of that came on one play, Darius Holly's 75-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.