SCSU football players report today.

South Carolina State will begin preparing for an historic 2007 football season Saturday when players report to the campus for orientation and physicals. This season, the Bulldogs will celebrate their centennial in football and also play two Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) teams for the first time in school history.

Beginning their sixth year under Coach Oliver “Buddy” Pough, the team will open practice Sunday – in shorts and helmets – at 3:50 p.m. Single workouts will be held Monday through Thursday at 3:10 p.m., with Thursday practice the first in full gear.

Two-a-day workouts are set to start Aug. 10. The morning practice will start at 8:30 and the evening drill at 7:10 p.m. SCSU will hold its annual “Press and Picture Day” Aug. 11 beginning at 9 a.m. at Oliver C. Dawson Bulldog Stadium, then conduct its first scrimmage at 2 p.m. The first week of preseason drills will conclude Aug. 12 with a practice in shorts and helmets at 3:40 p.m.

The Bulldogs open the 2007 season Sept. 1 when Pough’s team travels to Colorado Springs, Colo., to take on Air Force in a 2 p.m. (EST) contest at Falcon Stadium.Following that contest, the Bulldogs travel to Daytona Beach Sept. 8 to face Bethune-Cookman in their Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference opener, and culminate their three-game road swing Sept. 15 against the University of South Carolina at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia.

The team opens it home schedule Sept. 22 vs. Winston-Salem State in a 6 p.m. contest, then are open Sept. 29 before traveling to Norfolk State Oct. 6 for a 2 p.m. contest.

From: The Times and Democrat