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CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will begin the 2024 season at Jacksonville State on Thursday night, Aug. 29, in Jacksonville, Ala. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. ET. Jordan Kent and Logan Ryan will have the call on CBS Sports Network. CCU fans can hear the Chanticleer Sports Radio Network broadcast with Chris Burgin, Layne Harris, Joe Catenacci, and Sam Weiderhaft on WRNN 99.5 FM and online at wrnn.net.
 
2024 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.
 
BACK ON THE GRIDIRON
• Entering its 22nd year of football, Coastal holds an all-time record of 166-89 (65.1%), including a 52-35 (59.8%) mark as an FBS program.

• The Chants have posted 14 winning seasons in 21 years of football.

• Coastal has had only five losing seasons in program history, including three during the Chants' first three seasons in FBS.

BECK IS BACK
• The Chanticleers are under the direction of second-year head coach Tim Beck. 

• In his first season at the helm, Beck led the Chanticleers to an 8-5 record and a win over San Jose State in the EasyPost Hawai'i Bowl, making him just the second coach in Coastal Carolina football history to win a bowl game in his first season.
 
• The 2023 season featured Coastal's first win ever at App State, a rally to erase a 15-point deficit in a comeback win at Old Dominion, and a five-game winning streak in Sun Belt Conference play as Beck tied a program record for wins by a first-year head coach.
 
NON-CONFERENCE NOTABLES
• Since 2018, Coastal is 18-4 (81.8%) in regular season non-conference games.
 
• The Chanticleers have had perfect regular season non-conference ledgers four times since the program's inception in 2003.
 
• Coastal Carolina won 13 consecutive non-conference regular-season games from 2019-22. 

OFFENSIVE IDENTITY
• The Chanticleers rounded into form offensively as the year progressed in 2023, averaging 29.4 points per game during their five-game winning streak in the middle of the season.
 
• Coastal's balanced attack registered at least 100 yards rushing and 250 yards passing in nine games, six of which ended in Chanticleer victories.
 
• The Chanticleer quarterbacks tossed single-digit incompletions in six games and did not throw an interception in eight contests, registering just two multi-interception games all season. 
 
GREAT WALL OF CONWAY
• Coastal Carolina's offensive line ranked 24th nationally and led the Sun Belt Conference in sacks allowed per game in 2023, surrendering 1.31 sacks per contest.
 
• After giving up seven sacks in the first two games of the 2023 campaign, the Chanticleers allowed just 10 over the final 11 games.
 
A BIG DEFENSIVE TURNAROUND
• After surrendering 31.8 points per game in 2022, the 2023 Chanticleer defense held opponents to over a touchdown less per contest, allowing 23.8 points per game in its first season under defensive coordinator Craig Naivar.
 
• The Chanticleers prevented five opponents from scoring 20 points, the first time Coastal had achieved that in a season since 2020.

• Coastal Carolina improved from the 12th-best scoring defense in the Sun Belt Conference in 2022 to the third-best in 2023.
 
NO-FLY ZONE
• Coastal Carolina's defense picked off 14 passes during the 2023 season, second-most in the Sun Belt and 19th-most in the nation. 
 
• The Chanticleers tallied multiple interceptions in four games last season, picking off Marshall four times, recording three interceptions against UCLA and Duquesne, and nabbing two picks against Arkansas State.
 
TOUCHBACK TIME
• Liam Gray set Coastal Carolina's single-season touchback record with 43 last season, breaking the previous record of 28 set by Josh Hoke in 2005. 
 
• Gray has 61 touchbacks in his career, one shy of tying Hoke's program record of 62.
 
SCOUTING THE GAMECOCKS OF JACKSONVILLE STATE
• Jacksonville State posted a 9-4 record in its first year of FBS competition last season.
 
• The Gamecocks earned a bid to the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl and defeated Louisiana 34-31 in overtime for the program's first bowl victory.
 
• Jax State started the year strong, winning five of its first six contests with its lone loss in that stretch coming at Coastal Carolina, 30-16, on Sept. 9. 
 
• Jax State is the first team in FBS history to win a bowl game in its first season and just the sixth team in FBS history to win nine games in its transition season.
 
• The Gamecocks were 4-1 in games decided by one score, including a 3-1 mark in contests decided by three points.
 
• Jacksonville State racked up 236.7 yards per game on the ground last season, the third-highest average in the nation.
 
• Redshirt senior offensive lineman Clay Webb was chosen to the Reese's Senior Bowl Watch List, the Lombardi Award 2024 Preseason Watch List, and the Outland Trophy Preseason Watch List after earning second team All-America honors last season from the Associated Press and Walter Camp.
 
• Jax State's defense forced 25 turnovers in 2023, intercepting 16 passes and recovering nine of its 15 forced fumbles.
 
SERIES SNAPSHOT WITH JACKSONVILLE STATE
• Coastal Carolina and Jacksonville State have met twice on the gridiron with the series tied at 1-1
 
DATE       LOCATION                     RESULT
09/17/16   Jacksonville, AL              L, 26-27
09/09/23   Conway, SC                   W, 30-16

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