WLBG Real Radio 860 along with PC College station WPCX-FM 97.1 will kick things off at 3:30 p.m. with a tailgate show from E.J. Whitmire Stadium.

In Laurens, PC fans should tune their dials to 860 AM to hear the voice of the Blue Hose John Avery along with color analyst and former PC Football player Stan Reid break down PC's first game with the Catamounts in over 30 years.

In the Clinton area Blue Hose fans should turn their dials to the official student radio station of Presbyterian College, 97.1 WPCX, to hear the Presbyterian College Sports Network broadcast.

The broadcast can also be heard online at www.wlbg.com, which can also be linked to directly or from www.gobluehose.com. To link to the broadcast from GoBlueHose.com click on the WLBG Real Radio 860 logo on the main page of the website to the far right.

SATURDAY'S GAME: Presbyterian College travels to Cullowhee, N.C. for the second of three consecutive road games to face off against the Catamounts of Western Carolina University. PC will try and win its inaugural NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision road game tonight.

THE COACHES: Presbyterian ? Head coach Bobby Bentley is in his first season in charge of the Presbyterian College football program. A 1990 alumnus of PC, Bentley is 1-2 as a college coach and will be looking for his first intercollegiate road victory in the Western Carolina game. Western Carolina ? Kent Briggs is in his sixth season as the head coach of the Catamounts. A 1979 graduate of Western Carolina, Briggs is 21-36 in his five-plus seasons in charge.

SERIES: The Blue Hose and Catamounts have not taken the field against one another since 1976, but PC holds a slight 8-7 series advantage. The Blue Hose also hold a 4-3 advantage over Western Carolina in Cullowhee. The two teams are 4-4 against one another in Clinton.

LAST TIME OUT: Presbyterian College football outscored Samford in the second half, but the Blue Hose could not emerge with the victory as the Bulldogs took a 34-24 win on a rainy Thursday evening at Seibert Stadium. The score was tied 21-21 in the opening minutes of the final quarter, but Samford scored 13 in the fourth quarter to secure the win. PC running back S.J. Worrell (Madison, Ga.) led the Blue Hose in the game, finishing with 124 yards of total offense. Worrell had 52 yards and a touchdown receiving in the contest and rushed for 72 yards on 15 carries. He was one of three Blue Hose to secure a touchdown catch as Justin Durant (Florence, S.C.) and Brandon Clark (Duluth, Ga.) both hauled in touchdown passes as well. PC quarterback Grayson Mullins (Columbia, S.C.) passed for 213 yards in the loss, completing 23 of his 47 pass attempts. Antoine Carter (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Adam McKinney (Augusta, Ga.) both led the Blue Hose defensively in the loss with seven tackles each. Carter had six solo stops, while McKinney had five solo tackles.

INSIDE BLUE HOSE FOOTBALL: The Inside Blue Hose Football Television show will be shown throughout the 2007 football season at 1 p.m. on Friday's on CSS. The show will feature Coach Bentley along with host Brian Hand analyzing highlights from PC games.

HIGH ATTEMPT: Mullins' 47 pass attempts in the Samford game marked the first time since the 2005 season when Zach Ellis attempted 44 passes in the NCAA Division II Playoff loss to Central Arkansas that a Blue Hose hurler had attempted 40-plus passes. Mullins completed 23 of the 47 attempts to set a career high in single game completions.

CAREER HIGH: Terrance Butler's seven receptions in the Samford loss are a single game career-high for the Socastee High School product. The seven receptions are also currently a PC team season-high. Butler in total has caught 16 passes on the season, which surpasses his total of 12 last year by four. Butler caught 21 passes during his freshman season in 2005.

SMILING: Gaffney High School product Bryce Smiley tied the team single-game season high with two tackles-for-loss in the Samford game. Sherman Burnett (Norwood, Ga.) and Anthony McKnight (Sumter, S.C.) both had two tackles-for-loss in the Furman game.

RACKING IT UP: PC running back S.J. Worrell concluded the Samford game with a season-high 72 yards rushing. Worrell, who had a career-high 100-yard game in a dominating win over Carson-Newman last year, has not yet rushed for a touchdown in 2007, but is tied for the team lead with Terrance Butler in touchdown receptions with two touchdown catches on the season.

BEEN A WHILE: In the second quarter against Samford, a Mullins pass was intercepted by Jay McCurty off a carom by PC wide receiver Terrance Butler. The ball fell into McCurty's hands at the PC 36-yard line and he did the rest, taking it to the end zone untouched to place Samford on top 21-7. It marked the first time that the Blue Hose had allowed an interception to be returned for a touchdown since PC fell 21-13 at Bailey Memorial Stadium to Charleston Southern in week two of the 2006 season.

BENTLEY RADIO SHOW: Presbyterian College and Real Radio 860 WLBG, the flagship station of PC athletics, debuted the Bobby Bentley Show live on Monday, Aug. 27 from FATZ Caf? on I-26 at Exit 54 next to the Hampton Inn. For the rest of the season the show will be heard live from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. The show features WLBG's John Avery joining Coach Bentley and several members of the team and coaching staff. The show can be heard throughout Laurens County on Real Radio 860 WLBG. It will also be simulcast on WLBG's website, www.wlbg.com.

WESTERN CAROLINA RADIO COVERAGE: WLBG along with PC College station WPCX-FM 97.1 will kick off coverage of the Western Carolina game with a tailgate show from Whitmire Stadium beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. In Laurens, PC fans should tune their dials to 860 AM to hear the voice of the Blue Hose John Avery along with color analyst and former PC Football player Stan Reid break down break down PC's game with the Catamounts. The duo will be joined by former Westen Carolina standout and former Thornwell High School coach Walter Geary, who will prowl the sidelines for the Presbyterian College Sports Network during the 2007 football season. In the Clinton area Blue Hose fans should turn their dials to 97.1 WPCX, the official student radio station of Presbyterian College to hear the Presbyterian College Sports Network broadcast. The broadcast can also be heard online at www.wlbg.com, which can also be linked to directly or from www.gobluehose.com. To link to the broadcast from GoBlueHose.com click on the WLBG Real Radio 860 logo on the main page of the website to the far right.

IN-STADIUM: For Blue Hose fans traveling to Cullowhee, the Presbyterian College Sports Network broadcast will be able to be heard inside Whitmire Stadium on 101.5.

BOOMING: PC punter Bryson Summers hit his second 48-yard punt of the season in the Samford game to tie his own season high. Summers' career long is 62 yards.

ALL-INDEPENDENT: The Blue Hose had seven players named NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision All-Independent in Phil Steele's national college football preview magazine. Steele's preview placed two Blue Hose on the All-Independent first team offense in senior wide receiver Justin Durant and redshirt sophomore running back S.J. Worrell. Senior captain and defensive lineman Sherman Burnett was named to the first team All-Independent defense along with fellow captain and junior middle linebacker Antwan Thomas. The defensive duo was joined on the first team defense by junior defensive lineman Adam McKinney and junior defensive back Antoine Carter. Junior Bryson Summers was named to the first team as a punter.

BIG SOUTH TELECONFERENCE: The Big South Conference will hold their weekly coaches teleconference every Tuesday throughout the football season. Coach Bentley is scheduled to discuss Blue Hose football every Tuesday from 11-11:10 a.m. If you are an accredited media member and you would like to learn more please contact the Presbyterian College sports information office or the Big South Conference Public Relations Office.

THE BEGINNING: Presbyterian College head football coach Bobby Bentley claimed victory No. 1 as a college head coach in the win over Pikeville. The victory also garnered PC its first win as an FCS institution.

THREE IS A CHARM: PC's move into NCAA Division I marks the third classification of football that the Blue Hose have been a part of in the last 20 years. The Blue Hose along with the South Atlantic Conference left the NAIA in 1992 to join the NCAA Division II ranks.

TOUGH ROAD SCHEDULE: The Blue Hose do not get any breaks in their 2007 road schedule as it will go down as one of the hardest road schedules in program history. The Blue Hose open the season against perennial national championship contender and Southern Conference power Furman and then two weeks later take on new SoCon member Samford on a Thursday night. In fact, three of PC's first four games will be against SoCon competition as PC's fourth game of the year will be against Western Carolina in Cullowhee, N.C. The Blue Hose close out the month of September with a game against a tough North Carolina Central squad before playing three of their four games in October against Big South teams. PC will face off against Virginia Military, Liberty and defending Big South champion Coastal Carolina in October. PC closes out the its season and the month of November with a game against 2005 Big South co-champion Charleston Southern.

STRONG HOME SLATE: Things are not especially easy for the Blue Hose at home either as PC faces a strong trio in the friendly confines of Bailey Memorial Stadium. The Blue Hose begin their 2007 home slate with a Sept. 8 contest against Pikeville College of the NAIA and the Mid-South Conference. The Bears finished 4-6 overall last season and 2-3 in the strong Mid-South Conference. Presbyterian College will then face off against North Greenville University on Homecoming day at PC at 2 p.m. on Oct. 6, 2007. The Crusaders enter the 2007 season coming off one of the best years in program history. NGU finished the year as the top offense in NCAA Division II, averaging 472.2 yards-per-game. The Crusaders also downed the Malone College Pioneers 56-28 to win the National Christian College Athletic Association's 2006 Victory Bowl. The first college football bowl game ever to be played in the Palmetto State gave the Crusaders a school record 10 wins in the 2006 season. The Blue Hose close out their 2007 home schedule with a 1:30 p.m. game on Saturday, Nov. 3 against NCAA Division II's Chowan University.

IT'S A FIRST: PC Football will face five teams in the 2007 campaign that they have not squared off against on the gridiron before. The Blue Hose will take on Chowan, Coastal Carolina, North Carolina Central, Pikeville College, and Virginia Military Institute for the first time in the upcoming season.

LAST TIME OUT FOR WCU: Junior kicker Jonathan Parsons connected on all three field goal attempts and senior tailback Mike Malone slipped in for the Catamounts' first rushing touchdown of the season as Western Carolina concluded its three-game road swing to open its schedule with a 45-16 loss to the No. 23 Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium. By pushing across the late touchdown, Western became the first team to post a second half touchdown against Georgia this season. Also, WCU's 16 points were the most the program had scored against a Southeastern Conference (SEC) foe since tallying 25 at South Carolina in 1986 (L, 45-25) and the most against a NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) team since tallying seven at Louisville in 2001 (L, 31-7). Parsons, who improved to 5-for-7 (71.4%) on field goals this season, was perfect from 29, 40 and a career-long 46 yards. Again utilizing two quarterbacks, senior Todd Spitzer earned the starting nod and received the majority of the snaps on Saturday. The Greer, S.C., native completed 6-of-10 passing in guiding WCU on a pair of scoring drives. Adam Hearns also orchestrated two scoring drives, including a nine-play, 69-yard drive inside the final five minutes of the fourth quarter that resulted in WCU's lone TD of the game - a two-yard plunge by Malone. Six Catamount receivers hauled in passes led by Malone with four catches, while sophomore Marquel Pittman had a team-best 41 yards on three receptions. Sophomore Willie Harper accounted for 20 of WCU's 63 yards of rushing, while Hearns added 18. Defensively for Western, sophomore Chris Collins led the Catamount attack which was missing four defensive starters. The High Point, N.C., native finished with 10 total tackles, including eight solo stops, while junior Quinton Phillips finished with six tackles, five solos. Dating back to last season, three of Western's last four games - all on the road - have been against SEC foes as the Catamounts faced eventual national champion, Florida, in the Swamp in late November and Alabama to open the 2007 season.

AGAINST THE SOCON: Facing a SoCon foe is not an unusual occurence for the Blue Hose. In fact, PC has taken the field against at least one SoCon foe since the 2004 season, facing off against Furman in 2004 and 2007 and Elon in 2005 and 2006. The Blue Hose will square off against two SoCon institutions in 2007 in Furman and Western Carolina. PC also faced off against Samford, who will move into the SoCon in 2008. The Blue Hose are currently 0-1 against SoCon foes in 2007 with the 40-16 Furman loss. It has been 11 years since the Blue Hose picked up a win over a team in the SoCon as the Blue Hose downed Elon 27-23 on Oct. 19 of 1996. The then Fighting Christians were not a part of the SoCon at the time, leaving the last time that PC has claimed a win over a SoCon team being 1979 when they downed Furman 17-10 in Greenville. The Blue Hose defeated two SoCon schools that season as they opened the 1979 season with a 21-13 victory over The Citadel.

BOB WATERS: When the Blue Hose enter E.J. Whitmire Stadium on Saturday they will be playing on a field named after one of PC's most prominent alumni in former PC quarterback Bob Waters. Waters played quarterback at PC for three seasons and led the Blue Hose to the only bowl game in the history of the program, a 21-12 loss to Middle Tennessee State in the 1960 Tangerine Bowl. True to form, Waters actually picked up most outstanding player accolades in the game despite the PC loss. After his Tangerine Bowl performance, Waters signed with the San Francisco 49ers, playing five seasons (four at quarterback and one at defensive back). Waters returned to PC as an assistant coach in 1966 in Cally Gault's fourth season in charge of the Blue Hose. Just three seasons later he was hired as the head coach of the Catamounts despite only three years of coaching experience. Overall, in 20 seasons as the head mentor at Western Carolina, Waters guided WCU to 116 wins. He also took the program to the 1983 I-AA National Championship game. Sadly, Waters was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and passed away at the age of 50 in 1989.

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