CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (6-0, 3-0 Sun Belt) will welcome new Sun Belt Conference member Old Dominion (2-3, 1-0 Sun Belt) to Brooks Stadium this Saturday, Oct. 15, as part of the Homecoming Weekend at Coastal Carolina University. The game is scheduled for noon ET and will be nationally televised on ESPNU.
 
2022 Coastal Carolina football tickets are on sale now. Fans can purchase tickets online by visiting www.GoCCUsports.com/tickets or by calling the Chanticleer Athletics Ticket Office at 843-347-TIXX.
 
  • As part of the Homecoming Weekend at CCU, the Coastal Carolina University Athletics Department will induct six new members into the George F. Sasser Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 14.
 
• This weekend, former football head coaches Joe Moglia and David Bennett will be inducted, as well as football student-athlete De'Angelo Henderson, former track & field standouts Jason Flanagan and Ikeiylah Brown, and former women's golfer Lena Schaeffner.
 
• President Emeritus David A. DeCenzo, Ph.D., was recognized on Founder's Day on Sept. 10, while the other members of the 2022 class in Andrew Beckwith, Alex Cunningham, Dock Doyle, and Taylor Motter will be inducted on Nov. 11.
  • Coastal Carolina is celebrating the football program's 20th season this year, having kicked off the inaugural season in 2003.
 
• In 1999, football was approved to be added to Coastal in 2003.
 
• Almost 8,000 fans packed Brooks Stadium on Sept. 6, 2003, for the inaugural game of the Chanticleer NCAA I-AA football squad, as CCU used a 97-yard drive to score with seven seconds to play to defeat Newberry 21-14.
  • Coastal Carolina received votes in both the Associated Press Top 25 and USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches polls this week for the second time this season. CCU received votes in the AFCA Coaches preseason poll (Aug. 8) and one vote in each of the previous two polls (Sept. 18 and 25) prior to the last two weeks.
 
  • With the win at ULM (Oct. 8) on Saturday night, the Chanticleers became bowl eligible for the third-consecutive season.
 
Chants Bowl History

YEAR	BOWL
2020	FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl
2021	Tailgreeter Cure Bowl
2022	?

  • Last season, the Chanticleers became the first team to become bowl eligible in all of FBS with a 52-20 road win at Arkansas State on Thursday night, Oct. 7, 2021.
 
• This season, Coastal became the first Group of 5 program to become bowl eligible and one of only nine programs to accomplish the feat in just the sixth week of the season.
 
Teams Bowl Eligible After Week 6

TEAM	CONFERENCE
Alabama	SEC
Georgia	SEC
Ole Miss	SEC
Clemson	ACC
Michigan	Big Ten
Ohio State	Big Ten
UCLA	Pac-12
USC	Pac-12
Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt

• With their three wins to end the 2021 season and the six victories to start this year, the Chants are riding a nine-game winning streak into the Homecoming contest versus Old Dominion (Oct. 15) this weekend.
 
• The Chanticleers' current winning streak is one of the best in the nation, behind only Clemson and the Tigers' 12-straight wins.
 
Longest Current Winning Streaks in FBS

TEAM	OVERALL STREAK
Clemson	12
Coastal Carolina	9
UCLA	9
Georgia	8
Ohio State	7
Oklahoma State	6
Alabama	6
Ole Miss	6
USC	6
Michigan	6
Seven Teams	5

• Saturday's high-noon contest versus Old Dominion (Oct. 15) will be Coastal Carolina's Homecoming Game for 2022.
 
• The Chanticleers are 12-7 all-time at home on Homecoming Weekend, including winning five-straight games from 2012 to 2016.
 
• Since moving to the FBS and the Sun Belt as a full-time member in 2017, the Chants are just 2-3 in Homecoming Games with the two wins coming in back-to-back years versus Troy (2019) and South Alabama (2020).
 
  • Old Dominion enters play this week at Coastal Carolina (Oct. 15) after an open week. The Monarchs are 2-3 overall and 1-0 in Sun Belt Conference play, with wins over Virginia Tech (Sept. 2) and Arkansas State (Sept. 24).
 
• Picked to finish seventh in the East Division in the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Preseason Coaches Poll, the Monarchs are 0-2 in true road contests this season.
 
• The Monarchs, who are 2-1 at home this year, are in their third year and the second season under head coach Ricky Rahne, as ODU did not play in 2020 due to COVID-19.
 
• The ODU offense is averaging 21.6 points per game and 321.6 total yards of offense per contest, which both rank near the bottom of the Sun Belt Conference.
 
• Quarterback Hayden Wolff leads the offensive attack, as he is averaging 250.2 passing yards per game this season. He has completed 101-of-180 pass attempts with nine touchdowns and two interceptions.
 
• Wolff has connected with 14 different receivers this year, headlined by his favorite target in Ali Jennings, who has a team-high 32 catches for 688 yards and six touchdowns.
 
• ODU's rushing attack is averaging only 71.4 yards per game this season, as Blake Watson is the lone Monarch with over 100 rushing yards on the year with his team-leading 255 yards.
 
• Defensively, ODU is allowing on average 450.4 total yards of offense this season, 260.8 passing and 189.6 rushing yards per game.
 
• However, the ODU defense has been very opportunistic, as the Monarchs have forced 12 turnovers this season, which ranks fifth in the Sun Belt and 14th nationally.
 
• Linebacker Jason Henderson leads the nation with 80 total tackles, to go along with 5.0 tackles-for-loss, and a blocked kick, while seven different Monarchs have one interception on the year.
 
  • Coastal Carolina and Old Dominion are meeting for just the second time on Saturday, Oct. 15, as the Monarchs defeated Coastal 63-35 in the second round of the NCAA FCS Championship Playoffs in 2012.
 

DATE	LOCATION	RESULT
12/01/12	at Old Dominion *	L, 35-63

* 2012 FCS Playoffs
 
  • Since the start of the 2020 season, the Chanticleers, better known as #AmericasTeam, have had a total of 17 games nationally.
 
• Over those 17 nationally-televised contests, the Chanticleers are 15-2 overall with, the lone losses coming against No. 23 Liberty (Dec. 26, 2020) at the 2020 FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl and at Appalachian State (Oct. 20, 2021) last year in Boone, N.C.
 
  • Coastal will put a trio of winning streaks on the line this Saturday (Oct. 15) versus the Monarchs of Old Dominion.
 
• CCU has won nine-consecutive games dating back to last season, five-straight Sun Belt Conference games, and five-straight home games at Brooks Stadium.
 
Chants' Winning Streaks

DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT
11/20/21	Texas State *	W, 35-21
11/26/21	at South Alabama *	W, 27-21 (OT)
12/17/21	vs. Northern Illinois	W, 47-41
09/03/22	Army West Point	W, 38-28
09/10/22	Gardner-Webb	W, 31-27
09/17/22	Buffalo	W, 38-26
09/22/22	at Georgia State *	W, 41-24
10/01/22	Georgia Southern *	W, 34-30
10/08/22	at ULM *	W, 28-21

* Sun Belt Conference game
Bold = home game
 

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