UMass Travels To No. 16/15 Marshall On Saturday

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOOTBALL WEEKLY RELEASE
Game Two	Massachusetts (0-1) at No. 16/15 Marshall (5-0)
Date \| Time	Sat., Nov. 7 \| 2:30 p.m.
Location	Joan C. Edwards Stadium \| Huntington, W. Va. \| Gameday Information
Series History	Marshall leads, 1-0 Last: Marshall 49, Massachusetts 20 • Sept. 8, 2001 John C. Edwards Stadium • Huntington, W. Va.
Game Notes	Massachusetts \| Marshall \| Conference USA
Live Statistics	Live Stats
Listen (Online) Listen (Radio)	TuneIn Radio App \| Radio.com \| WEEI.com 105.5 FM WEEI (Western Mass.) & 830 AM WCRN (Worcester)
Tickets	Information available through the Marshall Ticket Office
Live Stream	ESPN+
Team Information	Massachusetts \| Marshall
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RANKED FOES

UMass will be taking on an FBS ranked opponent for the 14th time in team history on Saturday, and ninth time since transitioning to FBS in 2012. It marks the sixth time in the last six seasons that the Minutemen will square off against a top-25 opponent.
UMass all-time against FBS ranked opponents:
- Nov. 17, 2018 at No. 5 Georgia
- Nov. 4, 2017at No. 21 Mississippi State
- Sept. 3, 2016 at No. 25 Florida
- Oct. 24, 2015 No. 19 Toledo
- Sept. 26, 2015 at No. 6 Notre Dame
- Nov. 2, 2013 No. 21 Northern Illinois
- Aug. 31, 2013 at No. 23 Wisconsin
- Sept. 15, 2012 at No. 17 Michigan
- Sept. 18, 2010 at No. 20 Michigan
- Sept. 20, 2008 at No. 11 Texas Tech
- Sept. 27, 2007 at No. 12 Boston College
- Sept. 13 2003 at No. 7 Kansas State
- Sept. 28 2002 at No. 17 N.C. State

BACK IN THE MOUNTAIN STATE

The Minutemen are playing in the state of West Virginia for just the second time in team history, and first time since 2001. In its only other appearance in the state, also against Marshall, UMass dropped a 49-20 decision to Byron Leftwich and the Thundering Herd.

2020 SEASON TEAM TIMELINE

UMass Athletic initially announced the cancellation of the 2020 football season on Tues., Aug. 11. Football team student-athletes, who previously returned to campus in groups during the month of June, remained on-campus following the cancellation.
Following a review of the team's stringent COVID-19 safety protocols, the decision was made to return to play and the intention to complete a limited number of games in 2020 was announced on Wed., Sept. 21, 2020.
The first game added to the 2020 schedule following the announcement of the intention to play was on Thurs., Oct. 8 when the department announced the addition of the Sat., Oct. 17 game at Georgia Southern to the schedule.

LOOK AT ALL THESE NEW FACES

UMass football features 59 different student-athletes across its preseason offensive, defensive and special teams depth charts. Of those 59 Minutemen, 38 are in their first or second seasons at UMass (64.4 percent). It includes 17-of-28 on the offensive depth chart (60.7 percent) and 19-of-26 on the defensive (73.1 percent). Additionally, two of the five specialists (40.0 percent) are in their first or second year, which is not including offensive and defensive position players.
Of the 59 total student-athletes featured on the depth chart, 19 are true-freshmen and three are redshirt freshmen.
Twenty-four different players made their UMass debuts on October 17 at Georgia Southern.

AYE AYE, CAPTAINS

UMass football has five team captains in 2020, elected by a team vote: Larnel Coleman, Samuel Emilus, Cole McCubrey, Ellis Merriweather and Josh Wallace.
Coleman is a redshirt senior offensive lineman projected to start at left tackle for the third consecutive season. He has 26 starts during his career, including the last 13 at left tackle during and 12 at right tackle in the 2018 season. Coleman also started once in 12 appearances as a redshirt freshman in 2017, doing so at right tackle against Maine.
Emilus is in his third season as a wide receiver at UMass with 19 career games played, 46 receptions, 513 receiving yards and six touchdowns. His prior captaincy experience includes when he served as the team's lone game captain for the contest at Northwestern during the 2019 season.
McCubrey started all 12 games in 2019 was the team's leading tackler with 84 stops, which more than doubled his previous single-season best (35 tackles in 2018). He has appeared in all but one possible game since his arrival at UMass prior to the 2017 season. McCubrey's prior captaincy experience includes three instances as a game captain in 2019 - once as the defensive game captain against Charlotte and twice as the team's sole game captain against Liberty and Army.
Merriweather enters his first season at UMass following two years playing JUCO football at Garden City Community College in Kansas. He posted 513 rushing yards on 90 carries, including six touchdowns, for GCCC in 2019. He was also a member of the Garden City team that finished 10-1 overall and reached the NJCAA National Championship Game in 2018. Merriweather had a game-high 16 carries in his UMass debut on 10/17 at Georgia Southern, the most for a Minuteman in a season opener since Marquis Young had 20 carries in the 2017 season opener at Hawai'i.
Wallace is in his second season at UMass in 2020 and made his ninth straight start at cornerback in the season opener. He started at cornerback in eight games and appeared in all 12 during the 2019 season with 33 tackles, one interception and a forced fumble and fumble recovery.

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