Football | 10/20/2016 5:21:00 PM
Gameday Central
ABILENE – For the final time in ACU football history, the ACU Wildcats will host Homecoming at Shotwell Stadium as they host Incarnate Word still in search of their first win of the 2016 season.
ACU is 0-7 overall and 0-5 in the Southland Conference after last week's 48-21 loss at No. 1 Sam Houston State. The Cardinals, meanwhile, are 1-5 overall and 1-1 in the league, but were off last week. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. from Shotwell Stadium.
The Wildcats are 53-34-1 overall on Homecoming, including 31-25-1 at Shotwell Stadium. ACU has won four of its last six Homecoming contests, including a 40-6 win over Incarnate Word in 2013, the only time the Wildcats and Cardinals have met on Homecoming.
ACU leads the all-time series against the Cardinals with a 5-2 mark, although Incarnate Word has won two of the last three games between the teams, including last year's 25-20 win in San Antonio when the Cardinals scored the game-winning touchdown with 48 seconds left in the game. ACU's last victory over Incarnate Word was on Sept. 20, 2014, when they blanked the Cardinals, 21-0, on a rainy Saturday at Shotwell Stadium.
The Wildcats are 0-7 on the season for the first time since 1990 when they started 0-9 on their way to a 1-9 season. That year the Wildcats beat West Texas A&M, 24-22, in the season finale on Nov. 10, 1990, to avoid the program's first winless season since 1937. The 1937 team finished 0-9, the only winless season in 95 years of ACU football.
Last week against Sam Houston State, ACU got its starting quartback on the field after missing most of two games with a head injury. After a slow start, redshirt sophomore Dallas Sealey rebounded to finish 27 of 41 with one interception for 309 yards and three touchdowns. Sealey is second in the conference in passing yards per game (2789.2), completions (133), completion percentage (59.9), and third in passing yards (1,669) and fifth in touchdown passes (11). He's also second in total offense at 306.7 yards per game.
Two of Sealey's touchdown passes went to junior wide receiver D.J. Fuller, who finished the game with eight catches for 163 yards and two fourth-quarter touchdowns, covering 14 and 59 yards, respectively. Fuller is sixth in the league in receiving yards per game (71.2), fifth in receptions per game (4.3) and tied for second in touchdown receptions (five).
Senior middle linebacker Sam Denmark is second in the league in total tackles (67) and third in the league in tackles per game (9.6). Denmark had a first-quarter interception last week, his second pick of the season.
UIW's offensive attack is led by quarterback Trent Brittain of Eastland, running back Broderick Reeves and receiver Kody Edwards. Brittain directs an offense that is fifth in the league in scoring (28.5 points per game) and eighth in the league in total offense (367.7 ypg). He has thrown for 1,324 yards and is fifth in the league in yards per game at 220.7. Reeves is 10th in the league in rushing yards per game at 58.7, while Edwards has caught 24 passes for 444 yards and a league-leading six touchdowns.
