CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina football team (7-1, 4-1 Sun Belt) will return home to Brooks Stadium to host the Appalachian State Mountaineers (5-3, 2-2 Sun Belt) for a "Black Out" on Thursday night, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. ET. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN and carried on the radio at WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM.
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.
SOLD OUT
• All reserved and single-game tickets for Thursday night's home contest on Nov. 3 are SOLD OUT. No more tickets are available to be sold for the home contest.
• Reserved Gameday Parking is SOLD OUT. If you DO NOT have a paid parking pass, fans can use the complimentary parking lots located at the GG Lot, which is located off HWY 501, or the HGTC parking lots.
"BLACK OUT" BROOKS STADIUM
• Fans are encouraged to show up
EARLY, be
LOUD, be
PROUD, be
RESPECTFUL, and wear
BLACK for a "Black Out" on Thursday versus the Mountaineers.
CELEBRATING 20 SEASONS OF COASTAL FOOTBALL
• 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.
RECEIVING VOTES
• Coastal Carolina received votes in both the Associated Press Top 25 and USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches polls this week. The Chants picked up 25 votes in the USA TODAY Sports AVCA Coaches Poll and eight votes in the AP Top 25 Poll.
SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS
• Picked to win the Sun Belt Conference East Division in the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Preseason Coaches Poll, the Mountaineers are 5-3 overall and 2-2 in conference play this year.
• The Mountaineers, who are 1-1 in true road games this season entering Thursday night's contest at Coastal Carolina, have won each of their last two games, both of which have come at home in Boone, N.C.
• App State's offense is averaging 36.9 points and 459.6 total offensive yards per game this season, which both rank in the top three in the Sun Belt Conference.
• The offense has done it with a balanced attack, as App State is second in the Sun Belt at 208.2 rushing yards per game and seventh in passing yards per contest at 251.4, both of which rank in the top 60 in all of NCAA FBS football.
• Veteran quarterback Chase Brice leads the App State offense, as he has completed 64.9 percent of his pass attempts (155-of-239) for a league-leading 22 touchdowns and 1,921 yards.
• The rushing attack is once again led by the three-headed monster of Camerun Peoples (86 att., 551 yards, 5 TDs), Nate Noel (45 att., 306 yards, 3 TDs), and Daetrich Harrington (54 att., 266 yards, TD).
• The defense is one of the best in the Sun Belt once again this season, as the Mountaineers are holding opponents to just 308.5 total yards of offense per game.
• Led by preseason All-Sun Belt pick Steven Jones Jr., App State's defense is allowing just 179.4 passing yards per game, which leads the Sun Belt.
SERIES SNAPSHOT WITH THE MOUNTAINEERS
• Coastal is just 1-7 all-time versus App State, with the lone win coming at Brooks Stadium in 2020.
• The two teams met three times as FCS foes from 2005-12, before becoming Sun Belt Conference rivals in 2017 with the transition of CCU to the FBS level.
All-Time Series with App State
| DATE |
LOCATION |
RESULT |
| 09/17/05 |
at App State |
L, 3-30 |
| 11/25/06 |
at App State |
L, 28-45 |
| 09/29/12 |
at App State |
L, 14-55 |
| 10/21/17 |
at App State |
L, 29-37 |
| 11/03/18 |
at Coastal Carolina |
L, 7-23 |
| 09/28/19 |
at App State |
L, 37-56 |
| 11/21/20 |
at Coastal Carolina |
W, 34-23 |
| 10/20/21 |
at App State |
L, 23-30 |
HASHTAG #WINNING
• With their 7-1 start this season, the Chanticleers are 29-4 since the start of the 2020 season.
• The 29-4 record since the start of the 2020 season is the third-best record in all of FBS football behind only Alabama and the defending 2021 National Champions in the Georgia Bulldogs.
Best Record Since 2020
| TEAM |
OVERALL |
| Alabama |
33-3 |
| Georgia |
30-3 |
| Coastal Carolina |
29-4 |
| Cincinnati |
28-4 |
| Clemson |
28-5 |
| Louisiana |
27-6 |
| Oklahoma State |
26-7 |
| Notre Dame |
26-7 |
| Oklahoma |
25-7 |
| BYU |
25-9 |
*since the start of the 2020 season
CHANTS IN PRIME TIME
• Coastal Carolina was originally scheduled to play two games on Thursday Night Prime Time on the ESPN family of networks at the beginning of the season.
Nationally Televised Games (Scheduled)
| DATE |
OPPONENT |
NETWORK |
| 09/22/22 |
at Georgia State |
ESPNU |
| 11/03/22 |
Appalachian State |
ESPN |
• On Monday, Sept. 19, CCU's game at Georgia State was moved from ESPNU to ESPN2.
• On Monday, Oct. 3, ESPN and the Sun Belt Conference announced that the Chanticleers' home contest versus Old Dominion on Saturday, Oct. 15, would be televised on ESPNU.
• The Chants' contest versus Marshall (Oct. 29) was picked up by the NFL Network, marking the third of now five games to be nationally televised for Coastal this season.
• CCU's home contest on Saturday, Nov. 12, has also been picked up for a national TV audience, as the game will be broadcasted live on ESPNU.
TV CHANTS
• With Thursday night's contest versus App State (Nov. 3) being broadcasted live on ESPN, the Chanticleers, better known as #AmericasTeam, will have had a total of 20 games nationally televised since the start of the 2020 season.
• Over those previously 19 nationally-televised contests, the Chanticleers are 16-3 overall, with one of those losses coming at Appalachian State (Oct. 20, 2021) last year in Boone, N.C.
THURSDAY NIGHT PRIME TIME
• The Chants will be playing for the second time on Thursday night this season versus App State (Nov. 3), having played at Georgia State on Sept. 22.
• Coastal is 6-3 all-time in Thursday night contests, having won each of its last four games on Thursdays, all of which have come over the last two years.
Chants on Thursday Nights
| DATE |
LOCATION |
RESULT |
| 09/25/03 |
at North Greenville |
W, 49-39 |
| 09/03/09 |
at Kent State |
L, 0-18 |
| 11/19/15 |
at Liberty |
L, 21-24 |
| 11/17/16 |
Liberty |
W, 42-7 |
| 11/07/19 |
Louisiana |
L, 7-48 |
| 09/02/21 |
The Citadel |
W, 52-14 |
| 10/07/21 |
at Arkansas State |
W, 52-20 |
| 10/28/21 |
Troy |
W, 35-28 |
| 09/22/22 |
at Georgia State |
W, 41-24 |
• Overall, the Chanticleers are 12-6 in non-Saturday games, including going 5-2 at home and 6-4 on the road.
REIGNING PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
• The Chants had not one, but two student-athletes pick up Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week honors on Monday, Oct. 31, as linebacker
Shane Bruce was named the Defensive Player of the Week, while punter
Evan Crenshaw was tabbed the Special Teams Player of the Week.
CHANTS GOING BOWLING
• With the win at ULM (Oct. 8), 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 |
? |
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