Football to Play Rhode Island at Home

NEWARK, Del. – University of Delaware football will play Rhode Island on November 9, 2024. Kickoff is set for 1:00 p.m. at Delaware Stadium and will be broadcast on FloFootball.

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ABOUT THE HENS

Delaware enters the week at 7-1, and 4-1 in the CAA with wins over Bryant, North Carolina A&T, Penn, Sacred Heart, Monmouth, Maine, and UAlbany.
Nick Minicucci was UD's third starting quarterback to lead the Blue Hens to a win in the 28-14 victory over UAlbany on Homecoming. He threw for three touchdowns and completed just over 66 percent of his passes.
Zack Marker has thrown 10 touchdowns with zero interceptions and 1,011 yard in four games. Ryan O'Connor has thrown for 882 yards and eight touchdowns in three game.
Four UD running backs have scored touchdowns this season, with Marcus Yarns, Jo'Nathan Silver, and Quincy Watson each having four. Saeed. St. Fleur has scored two. Yarns also has four receiving touchdowns.
Yarns is 64 yards shy of becoming the 18th player in program history to reach 2,000 career rushing yards. He also needs 334 all-purpose yards to reach 3,000 for his career.
Phil Lutz has a team-best 652 receiving yards on 32 catches with nine touchdowns.
Lutz is fourth in FCS in touchdown receptions and ranks in the top five in the CAA in receiving touchdowns, receiving yards, and receiving yards per game.
KT Seay leads the CAA and is tied for fifth in the country with four interceptions this season. The four picks are the most in a season by a Blue Hen since Nasir Adderley had four in 2018. The last time a UD defender recorded five interceptions in a season was Adderley in 2017.
Gavin Moul's 52 tackles is tops on the team.
Nate Reed set a Delaware record against UAlbany as he recorded his 38th touchback of the season on the second-half kickoff. That set the program's single-season record, passing Jake Roth who had 37 touchbacks in 2018.
A win on Saturday would mark the third-consecutive season with at least eight wins, marking the first time Delaware has done that since the 1995-97 seasons..

ABOUT THE RAMS

Rhode Island comes in with an 8-1 overall record and is 5-0 in CAA play. The Rams are on a seven-game winning streak with their only loss coming at Minnesota back in week two.
The offense is averaging 25.9 ppg and 358.6 yards of total offense. The defense allows 23.4 ppg and 338.4 ypg to opponents.
Devin Farrell has taken the majority of the snaps at quarterback and has a .581 completion percentage while throwing for 1,640 yards and 11 touchdowns with eight interceptions.
Malik Grant is fourth in the CAA with 789 rushing yards, averaging 87.7 per game, and has scored seven touchdowns on the ground.
Marquis Buchanan leads the Rhode Island receivers with 47 catches for 680 yards and six touchdowns.
Cole Blackwell leads the defense and is fifth in the CAA with 81 total tackles, while A.J. Pena is second in the conference with 14.5 TFLs and tied for third with 8.0 sacks.

SERIES HISTORY

Delaware and Rhode Island are meeting for the 37th time overall, with the Blue Hens holding a 25-11 series advantage, including a 14-4 mark at Delaware Stadium. UD has won three of the previous four meetings, all of which have come at Rhode Island.
Eleven of the meetings, including three of the past five, have been decided by just one score.
The two teams last met during the 2022 season when then-No. 9/10 UD used 610 yards of total offense to come away with a decisive 42-21 victory over the then-No. 17/14 Rams. The Blue Hens had 231 rushing yards and 379 yards through the air to account for the most total yards in a single game since the 2013 season.
Nolan Henderson set career-highs with 29 completions for 379 yards and four touchdowns. He completed passes to 11 different receivers including Jourdan Townsend who had a career day with seven catches for 109 yards and two scores. Braden Brose and Thyrick Pitts both also had touchdown catches while Kyron Cumby and Anthony Paoletti had rushing touchdowns.

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Braden Brose

Kyron Cumby

Phil Lutz

Nick Minicucci

Gavin Moul

Ryan O'Connor

Nate Reed

KT Seay

Jo Silver

Quincy Watson

Marcus Yarns

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