Thursday, August 9, 2012

Know the Opponent: South Carolina State Bulldogs

TUCSON, Arizona -- Continuing our know the opponent series, we’ll spend the next three entries going back to the FCS ranks before finishing with FBS teams. Today we look at the South Carolina State Bulldogs who went 7-4 and 6-2 MEAC.

In 2011 the Bulldogs played at Central Michigan and Indiana both losses, this season they’ll again travel to a pair of FCS opponents. On September 15 they’ll travel to Tucson’s Arizona Stadium to face the Wildcats at 7:30 pm on the Pac-12 network and a week later they’ll visit College State and Texas A&M.

Returning will be two signal callers Richard Cue playing in nine games and Derrick Wiley who played in seven. Cue threw for 900 yards with seven touchdowns, he also rushed for 514 yards reaching the endzone eight times. Wiley had 727 yards through the air with six TD’s his longest pass being 71 yards.

Asheton Jordon played in all 11 games running for 774 yards with five scores good for 70.4 yards a game. Jalen Simmons is the third leading returners behind Cue and Jordon with 304 yards with two TD’s.

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