Saint Joseph's Pumas (5-5, 3-4) at UIndy Greyhounds (5-5, 4-3)
Saturday, Nov. 12, 3 p.m. ET, Key Stadium

ON TAP
The state's only Division II football programs hook up this weekend, as UIndy hosts the Pumas of Saint Joseph's College in the 2016 season finale. The Greyhounds will honor their 10 seniors prior to the game.

SENIOR DAY
Alex Bobos, Derrick Bryant, Russell Collins, Sam Daggy, Rob Dury, Chad Eppley, Zach Hiss, Hayden Janney, Korey Rogan and Tommy Taylor will all be donning the Crimson & Grey for the final time Saturday. The group has helped the Hounds to three GLVC championships, two NCAA playoff appearances and a 34-11 overall record over the last four seasons.

The UIndy athletics department would like to extend its most sincere thanks for their hard work and dedication to the football program and the university. They will forever be #AlphaDogs.

ABOUT SAINT JOSEPH'S
Like UIndy, Saint Joseph's enters the final week with an even 5-5 record and thus needs a victory to secure a winning season. After starting the year 3-1 in GLVC play, the Pumas have dropped their last three conference games to fall into a tie for fifth in the league standings.

St. Joseph's leads the GLVC in turnover margin at +8 for the year. Individually, junior linebacker Luke Teague ranks fourth in the league in tackles per game (9.2), while junior DE Evan Gill's 8.5 total sacks are good for fifth.

The Pumas are coached by second-year head man Daniel Day. Just two years out of undergrad, Day was hired as the offensive line coach in 2011 before being promoted to head coach in December of 2014. He finished 5-6 last season in his first year as a head coach.

HOUNDS vs. PUMAS
UIndy owns a 29-10-1 record versus Saint Joseph's all-time, including wins in each of the last 16 meetings dating back to 1994. Last season, the Greyhounds ran away with a 47-24 win in Rensselaer, racking up 576 total yards on the day while scoring all six touchdowns before their first punt. Quarterback Connor Barthel finished 24-for-30 passing for 371 yards, while All-American wideout Reece Horn racked up 216 all-purpose yards and a receiving TD.

Prior to last year, each of the previous two meetings were decided by just three points, including a four-overtime 36-33 UIndy win in 2014, a game televised nationally on CBS Sports Network.

HOMELAND SECURITY
Since Head Coach Bob Bartolomeo took over in 2010, the Hounds have amassed an impressive 32-6 (.842) record at Key Stadium. That span includes a 18-1 record versus GLVC competition.

LAST TIME OUT
UIndy won its third straight contest last Saturday with a hard-fought 16-6 victory at Missouri S&T. The host Miners came into the day averaging 33 points per game, but the miserly UIndy defense yielded just a pair of field goals. The Hounds had held two previous opponents to single digits this year, but last weekend marked the first time they did not surrender a touchdown since shutting out Kentucky Wesleyan in October of 2013.

Sophomore Malik Higgins scored the lone touchdown of the game -- a 25-yard TD reception in the second quarter, while kicker Brad Schickel scored the Hounds' remaining 10 points with three field goals and an extra point.

LIKE A BROKEN RECORD
Junior Tuwan Payton etched his name in the UIndy record books last week, setting a new program benchmark for kickoff return yards in a season. The record breaker came when the New Albany, Ind., native broke free for a 52-yard refund late in the first quarter, good for his fourth return of at least 50 yards this season.

Despite teams mostly kicking away from him the past few weeks, Payton enters the final game of the season with 673 kickoff return yards to his credit. His average of 30.6 yards per return ranks 12th in Division II.

ELITE COMPANY
Junior Andrew Walker enters the weekend within striking distance of the UIndy all-time top five in rushing yards. The Chicago product currently has 2,511 career rushing yards to his name, which is just 63 shy of passing UIndy's sixth-leading rusher Jim Ware (1959-62) and 93 yards short of surpassing No. 5 Duddy Reeves (1975-78). Former UIndy All-American Klay Fietcher sits atop the UIndy career list with 3,809 rushing yards.

JUST FOR SCHICKS
Junior Brad Schickel was one of just four Division II kickers and 14 collegians nationwide named to the October edition of the Fred Mitchell Award Watch List, released this week. The annual award will be presented in mid-December to the nation's top kicker based on performance both on the football field and in the community.
 
A native of Louisville, Ky., Schickel owns a career field goal percentage of .846, the highest in school history. His season percentage of .789 is good for tops in the GLVC and 15th in Division II. He also leads all GLVC kickers in points per game (7.5) while ranking second among all league players in the category. In addition, he ranks fourth in the league in net punting (39.2), while dropping nearly a third of his punts inside the 20.

AROUND THE GLVC
Truman clinched a share of the GLVC title last weekend with a 23-3 win versus Saint Joseph's, marking its first conference championship in football since 1988. With just one week remaining in the regular season, the Bulldogs, who are still unbeaten in conference play, own a one-game lead over Southwest Baptist in the GLVC standings. SBU needs a win AND a Truman loss Saturday to share the conference crown or the Bulldogs will win it outright.

Regardless, the GLVC will have a first-time champion this season, as UIndy can finish no better than 5-3 in league play. The Greyhounds won each of the first four GLVC titles since the league began sponsoring football in 2012.

This week's GLVC Players of the Week were...
Offensive            RB Bubba Jenkins, SBU    183  rushing yds, 3 TDs, 6.3 yds/carry
Defensive            DE Sam Reeves, TSU        6 tackles, 3.0 sacks
Special Teams    DB Derrick Curry, McK       64-yard punt return TD

REGION ROUND-UP
In a matchup dubbed "The Battle of the Valleys," second-ranked Grand Valley State used a thrilling 62-56 double-overtime win versus rival Saginaw Valley to capture the 2016 GLIAC championship. As a result, the Lakers maintained their hold on the region's top spot and are undefeated heading into their season finale at Wayne State.

Meanwhile, GLVC-schools Southwest Baptist and Truman both appear in the top 10, coming in at No. 3 and No. 5, respectively. The top-seven teams from each of the country's four super regions will qualify for the postseason, with each top seed earning a bye and seeds two, three and four hosting first-round contests. The GLVC has never had two teams qualify for the playoffs in the same year.

A total of 45 teams compete in Super Region 4, including members of the GLVC, Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (GLIAC), Lone Star Conference (LSC) and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), as well as the emerging Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC).

DYNAMIC DUO
Senior linebackers Derrick Bryant and Rob Dury both rank in the top 12 in the nation in tackles per game, with Dury (11.6) at No. 6 and Bryant (11.0) ranked 11th. Both backers have more than 100 tackles on the year, while Dury enters his final collegiate contest needing 17 tackles to became just the sixth-ever Greyhound with 400 career stops.

WINNING WAYS
The Greyhounds will need a victory Saturday to extend their streak of winning seasons to seven. In each of his eight previous years as a college head coach (six at UIndy, two at Butler), Coach Bart's teams never finished below .500.

INTERCEPT COURSE
Senior cornerback Korey Rogan has racked up an impressive number of interceptions this year. After his second-quarter pick at Missouri S&T last Saturday, the local product and North Central High School grad now has seven on the season -- highest total by a Greyhound Chad Neal in 1996. He ranks first in the GLVC and fourth in the nation in interceptions per game (0.7).