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GAME INFORMATION
Series: 4th Meeting (AC leads 3-0)
First Meeting: 2015 (AC def KU, 41-37)
Last Meeting: 2017 (AC def. KU, 31-28)
Last KU Win: N/A

BEAR BITES
• Kutztown tied for third place in the PSAC East last year and was picked to finish third in 2018.
• Jim Clements enters his fifth season as head coach at KU, his 13th season overall.
• Kutztown went 8-3 last year, the third-most wins in school history.
• KU returns 16 starters from last year.
• Kutztown had its program-record-tying fourth-straight winning season last year.
• Kutztown scored 37.5 points and allowed 19.5 points per game last year, both third in the PSAC.
• Craig Reynolds (Willow Grove, Pa./Abington) needs 173 yards to eclipse 2,000 career rushing yards.
• KU's run defense yielded a school-record 86.7 yards per game last year.
• Kutztown has three team captains - Craig Reynolds (Willow Grove, Pa./Abington), Tajier Jefferson (East Orange, N.J./Queen of Peace) and Conor Sullivan (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall).
• KU is 0-3 all-time against Assumption.

Complete Game Notes

SERIES HISTORY: Saturday marks the fourth meeting between Kutztown and Assumption. They have met the last three seasons, with Assumption winning 41-37 in 2015, 45-21 in 2016 and 31-28 last season. This will be the second time KU has made the trip to Worcester, Mass.
 
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER WINNING SEASON: 2017 marked the fourth-straight winning season for Kutztown, the longest stretch in school history. It extended head coach Jim Clements' career streak to 12 straight.
 
EIGHT WINS: Kutztown finished 8-3 last season, the third-most wins in school history.
 
60-POINT MARK: KU surpassed the 60-point mark twice last season for the first time in school history. KU has posted 60+ points seven times in school history.
 
STOPPING THE RUN: Under head coach Jim Clements, KU is 14-2 when holding its opponent to less than 100 yards rushing. His only losses were to Mercyhurst in 2016, and at West Chester in 2017.
 
RECORD-BREAKING RUN DEFENSE: KU held opponents to a school-record 86.7 rushing yards per game last year, breaking the previous record from the modern era of 97.2 in 1995.
 
EXTRA POINT RECORD: Alec Rosenfeld (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) broke the school-record last year for career PATs with 142.
 
ALL-PURPOSE BACK: Craig Reynolds (Willow Grove, Pa./Abington) enters his senior season as a two-time All-PSAC and All-Region running back. He ranks on 11 career leaderboards at KU, in addition to his single-game records for rushing and all-purpose yards. He ranks sixth in school history with 3,602 all-purpose yards.
 
INTO THE BACKFIELD: Chris Kimbiz (Brick, N.J./Brick Township) ranked seventh in the PSAC last year with a career-high 13 tackles-for-loss. Kimbiz, Tajier Jefferson (East Orange, N.J./Queen of Peace) (12.5) and Ronny Tomasetti (Dickson City, Pa./Mid-Valley) (10) all had 10+ tackles-for-loss last year, the fifth-straight year KU has had multiple players with double-digit tackles-for-loss.
 
TIGHT END TOUCHDOWNS: Jack Pilkerton (La Plata, Md./La Plata (Golden West)) had three touchdown catches last season. He is KU's first tight end with multiple touchdowns in a season since Dan Onorato in 2007.
 
LESS THAN 100 RUSHING YARDS: The KU defense has not allowed 100 rushing yards in five of the last seven games. Under Jim Clements, KU is 14-2 when holding teams to less than 100 rushing yards.
 
HOT HAND: Shawn Turber-Ortiz (Northumberland, Pa./Shikellamy) had six interceptions as a redshirt-freshman last year, a KU freshman record.
 
PUT THOSE FLAGS AWAY: Kutztown had the most penalty yardage in the PSAC at 86.7 per game last year.
 
THIRD-YEAR QB: Collin DiGalbo (Secane, Pa./Monsignor Bonner) is a three-year starting and All-PSAC quarterback. Through 20 career games, DiGalbo ranks on KU's career leaderboards in career passing yards (3,619, 6th in KU history), touchdowns (29, 6th), completions (309, 7th) and pass attempts (496, 11th).
 
DUAL-THREAT QB: DiGalbo also ran for the second-most yards among PSAC quarterbacks last year (265) and is on pace to run for more than 1,000 in his career. On the ground, he holds four school-rushing-records for a quarterback – touchdowns in a game (3) and season (8), longest run (82) and most rushing yards in a game (126). He has run for 686 career yards with 12 touchdowns, as KU's career QB records stand at 878 yards and 19 touchdowns.
 
WINNING QUARTERBACK: Collin DiGalbo (Secane, Pa./Monsignor Bonner) holds a record of 12-4 as a starting quarterback.
 
TACKLING TJ: Tajier Jefferson (East Orange, N.J./Queen of Peace) is a four-year All-PSAC starting linebacker and a two-year team captain. He posted a career-high 86 tackles last year and ranks 15th in school history with 236 career tackles and 37.5 tackles-for-loss. He has only missed one game in his career.
 
STARTING LINEBACKER: Tajier Jefferson (East Orange, N.J./Queen of Peace) has made 31 consecutive starts at linebacker, the longest streak on the team and second-longest active streak in the PSAC (Morgan Faughnan of Millersville, 33).
 
BALL HAWK: Junior cornerback Ahkee Cox-Cowan (Harrisburg, Pa./Harrisburg) was named All-PSAC East First Team and All-Region Second Team last year. He broke the school-record with 20 passes defended and 17 breakups.
 
PRIMETIME PUNTER: Dean Krcic (Saylorsburg, Pa./Pleasant Valley) ranked second in school history as a freshman last year with a punting average of 42.3 yards. He was named All-PSAC East Second Team and All-Region Third Team.
 
MAGIC NUMBER = 24: KU head coach Jim Clements is 21-1 in his Kutztown career when holding opponents to 24 or fewer points. His only loss was to Mercyhurst in 2016 (23-19).
 
TEAM CAPTAINS: Kutztown's three team captains this year are Craig Reynolds (Willow Grove, Pa./Abington), Tajier Jefferson (East Orange, N.J./Queen of Peace) and Conor Sullivan (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall). KU will also feature a fourth team captain on gameday.
 
INTERCEPTION LEADER: Jake Perry (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) leads KU with 10 career interceptions, eighth in school history. He was an All-PSAC East First Team safety as a sophomore in 2016.
 
RETURNING KICKER: Alec Rosenfeld (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) was an All-PSAC and All-Region kicker his freshman campaign in 2014, when he set school-records for field goal percentage in a season and field goals in a game. He has kicked a school-record nine PATs in a game three times and enters his senior year as the career record-holder with 142 and counting. He has made 23 field goals in his career, one shy of second all-time in school history.
 
EARLY LEAD: Kutztown has led at halftime in 30 of its last 33 wins. KU's two comeback wins over that time were at Indiana (PA) in 2015, and at Shippensburg in 2016. It was once tied at halftime at Bloomsburg in 2017.
 
PASS ATTACK: Dating back to 2011, Kutztown has thrown 30 or more pass attempts in 49 of its last 65 games (75.4 percent).
 
OVERTIME HEARTBREAK: KU is 3-9 all-time in overtime (OT). It played its first three OT games in 1996, but KU's first OT win was a 26-23 victory over Millersville in 3-OT in the final game of 2007. KU's most recent OT win was in 2-OT in 2016 at Shippensburg. KU's most recent OT game was in 2016, a 24-21 win in double-overtime at Shippensburg.
 
HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY: 2018 marks the 103rd season of Kutztown University football. Beginning in 1895, Kutztown's all-time record in 840 games stands at 376-441-23 (.461).
 
PSAC PRESEASON POLL: Kutztown was picked third in the East.
 
Eastern Division
1) West Chester (6)
2) Shippensburg
3) Kutztown (1)
4) Bloomsburg
5) East Stroudsburg
6) Millersville
7) Lock Haven
 
Western Division
1) IUP (7)
2) California (1)
3) Slippery Rock
4) Edinboro
5) Gannon
6) Mercyhurst
7) Clarion
8) Seton Hill