LIVE STATS/LIVE VIDEO: Live Stats and Live Video will be available for fans unable to make the trip to La Grande for Saturday's game. Live Stats will be available through EOU's
SIDEARM Stats Portal, with Live Video available through EOU's
Stretch Internet Portal, with former ESPN Boise radio personality Johnny Mallory on the call.
COMPLETE MEDIA GAME NOTES
TOP DRAW IN THE FRONTIER: Big crowds at the three home games at Simplot Stadium have the Coyotes leading all Frontier Conference schools in attendance and ranked No. 3 in the NAIA. C of I is averaging 3,871 fans per game on the season – well ahead of Frontier Conference foes Montana Tech (2,814), Carroll College (2,638), Southern Oregon (2,417), Rocky Mountain (1,166), Eastern Oregon (1,080), Montana Western (1,017) and MSU-Northern (900). Evangel (Mo.) leads the NAIA in attendance, averaging 4,117 fans per game, with Indiana Wesleyan (3,885) just ahead of the Yotes. Edward Waters (Fla.) (3,801), Thomas More (Ky.) (3,674) and St. Francis (Ind.) (2,891) round out the Top-6 in the NAIA attendance race. C of I has outdrawn 25 NCAA Division I teams (including Portland State (3,607)); would rank in the Top-50 of the NCAA Division II in attendance (including Western Oregon (2,662); with the Yotes well ahead of all NCAA Division III Northwest Conference teams – Linfield (2,341), Whitworth (2,295), George Fox (2,066), Pacific (2,017), Puget Sound (1,741), Pacific Lutheran (946), Willamette (850) and Lewis & Clark (519).
WINNING SEASONS: C of I has clinched a winning season for the third-straight season and the 35th time in program history. It is the first time the Coyotes have recorded three-straight winning seasons since a string of four-straight winning seasons from 1951-54.
TOP WIN STREAKS: The 13-game win streak by the Yotes is the second-longest active streak in the NAIA, behind the 22-straight wins by current No. 1 ranked Morningside (Iowa). Only six other schools in all of college football have longer streaks than the Yotes – Ohio State (14 games), Princeton (16 games), Mary Hardin Baylor (22 games), Clemson (23 games), Valdosta State (23 games) and North Dakota State (29 games).
YOTES BACK TO .500 IN NEW ERA: With their win over Southern Oregon, the Coyotes improved their record since football returned in 2014 to an even 31-31. The 31 wins for head coach
Mike Moroski ranks No. 3 in program history – trailing only the 54 games Anse Cornell won between 1916-32 and the 47 wins by Clem Parberry from 1935-50.
7-WIN SEASONS: The 7-0 mark by the Coyotes marked the seventh time a C of I has won seven or more games in a season. The Yotes have won seven games in a season four times (1947, 1952, 1959, 2019), eight games in a season twice (1934, 1953) and a school-record nine games in 1948 – en route to a win in the Pear Bowl.
NAIA FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES INFORMATION: The Coyotes are currently in position to qualify for their first-ever berth in the 16-team NAIA Football Championship Series, which will begin on Nov. 23. To earn an automatic bid, a team must win their regular-season conference title and be ranked within the Top-20 of the final AFCA Top-25 Coaches Poll. At-large berths are allotted to the highest ranked teams remaining that did not receive an automatic berth. First-round games are awarded to the Top-8 ranked teams in the final poll (as long as they meet the NAIA bid requirements). The NAIA championship game is set for Dec. 21 in Grambling, La.
