NEWS

The ‘Cats host San Diego for a midday game at Richardson Stadium.

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 Harringtonscooped 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.

UP NEXT

• Davidson enters its BYE week before heading to Indianapolis for an Oct. 14 contest with Butler the following week.