SE Hosts No. 2 Harding in Thursday Night Showdown

DURANT, Okla. – After back-to-back road contests Southeastern football returns home to Paul Laird Field at Spend Life Wisely Stadium set to host No. 2 Harding in a rare mid-season Thursday night contest on Oct. 9 at 6 p.m.
 
Southeastern fans can listen live via the Southeastern Sports Network on GoSoutheastern.com/SESportsNet or across the largest DII radio network in the area with Jay Lindly and Rob Johnson on the call. Local fans can pick up the game on 96.1 FM, while fans across southeastern Oklahoma and north Texas can pick up the games on 94.7 FM in Valliant, Okla., 97.7 in Ardmore, Okla., 99.5 in Rattan, Okla., 102.1 in Atoka, Okla., and 107.5 in Atoka.
 
SE is coming off a tough-to-swallow 14-10 road loss at Arkansas Tech which saw its record slip to 2-3 overall on the season.
 
The Bisons enter the weekend of a 65-0 win over East Central and are the Great American Conference's lone remaining undefeated team.
 
Thursday's matchup with Harding marks the 36th meeting between the programs. It is currently the third-longest played rivalry for SE among Arkansas schools behind Ouachita Baptist and Southern Arkansas.
 
The first meeting came in 1978, a 30-8 Southeastern win. The last 16 meetings have been conference tilts as the Storm is 1-12 in 13 GAC meetings and were 1-2 in three previous meetings in 1997-98-99 as members of the Lone Star Conference.
 
From 1978 through 1999 the teams met every season before taking a 12-year break and meeting again in 2011 as charter members of the GAC.
 
The last two outings have seen the Storm use an alternating two-quarterback system with Levay Duncan and Colton Howard splitting work.
 
Duncan leads the way through the air with 519 yards and five touchdowns, while Howard has 213 yards and two scores.
 
In all, SE has piled up 888 yards passing, with four receivers with at least 100 yards on the season, led by Kobe Jennings who has 10 catches for 197 yards and three scores.
 
The Storm surpassed 1,000 yards on the season as a team last week and that rushing attack is paced by Duncan who has 317 yards and a touchdown while Donovan Shannon is next in line with 196 yards and a score.
 
The SE offense has mastered grinding out drives, leading the nation in time of possession at 36:07 per game while seeing just 10 of its 61 drives on the season end in a three-and-out.
 
Defensively, Andrew Grissom leads the way with 33 tackles, including two for a loss while adding an interception.
 
William Wallis, D'Teaurean Johnson and Braeden Winters each have 20 or more stops on the year as well.
 
Josh Johnson leads the way in sacks with 2.5 on the season while Kamron Field has three interceptions.
 
HU comes to town doing all of its damage on the ground as it averages 430.8 yards per game rushing, led by Braden Jay who has 489 yards and eight touchdowns.
 
Andrew Miller and Cole Keylon are next in line with 459 yards and 238 yards, respectively.
 
The Bisons defense is led by Clark Griffin with 47 tackles, including 6.5 for a loss, while Ty Dugger and Jordan Mays are adding 24 each.