Charger Football Week 10 Preview

Charger Football Week 10 Preview

WHO: Hillsdale College (6-3 overall, 4-1 G-MAC) at #25 Tiffin University (7-1 overall, 5-0 G-MAC)

WHERE: Frost-Kalnow Stadium - Tiffin, OH

WHEN: 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9

THE SERIES: Hillsdale leads the all-time series with the Dragons 8-4

LAST MEETING: The Chargers clinched the 2018 G-MAC championship thanks to a 48-26 win over Tiffin on Hillsdale's senior day on Nov. 3, 2018

LAST WEEK: Hillsdale defeated Alderson Broaddus 56-21...Tiffin was on a bye week

LINKS: Webcast  |  Live Stats   |  G-MAC Standings  |  G-MAC Statistical Leaders  |  G-MAC Football Schedule  |  HC Football Game Notes - Week 9

GAME PREVIEW: In Week 10 of the 2018 season, the football teams from Hillsdale and Tiffin squared off with first place in the G-MAC on the line...In 2019 it's déja vu all over again, only this time the Dragons host the Chargers with first place in the conference at stake...Tiffin currently sits alone in first with a 6-0 G-MAC record, and Hillsdale is in a three-way tie for second with one conference loss...A Hillsdale win would give it all tiebreaker advantages over Tiffin due to the head-to-head win...Findlay and Ohio Dominican are both tied with the Chargers for second place...Hillsdale plays ODU next weekend while Tiffin plays Findlay in a nifty bit of scheduling that sees the four top teams in the league all play one another in the season's final two weeks...Unlike last year, the winner of Saturday's game cannot clinch the G-MAC regular season title outright, but a Charger win would create quite a tangle at the top of the conference standings...Tiffin comes into this game ranked 25th in this week's AFCA Division II Top 25 Coach's poll, having won six in a row since a Week 2 loss to Saginaw Valley State...Both teams played Northwood this year, and both teams pulled out close victories, 37-30 for Hillsdale and 22-19 for Tiffin...Hillsdale hasn't won at Tiffin since November 12, 2011...In that game, a 42-0 Hillsdale win, the Chargers clinched the GLIAC regular season championship outright.

EXTRA POINTS

  • Charger senior placekicker Bryce Sealock was named the G-MAC Special Teams Player of the Week after going 8-for-8 on extra point attempts in last week's 56-21 win at Alderson Broaddus...Hillsdale now has four G-MAC player of the week award winners this year: Sealock, Zach Herzog, Luke Keller and David Graham
  • Tiffin is ranked 9th in this week's Super Region 1 rankings...Hillsdale is unranked
  • Tiffin is in its second season in the G-MAC, joining the conference one year after former GLIAC teams Hillsdale, Lake Erie, Ohio Dominican and Findlay joined
  • The Dragons have the No. 1 scoring offense and scoring defense in the G-MAC
  • Hillsdale is 14th in NCAA Division II with a .667 fourth-down conversion rate...The Chargers' 14 successful fourth-down conversions are tied for seventh in Division II
  • The Chargers are 16-1 in their past 17 G-MAC games, a streak that began on Oct. 21, 2017