Complete Game Notes (PDF)
 
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The fifth-ranked Slippery Rock University football team returns home to Mihalik-Thompson Stadium to host No. 14 East Stroudsburg University Saturday at 1 p.m. in the 2026 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championship game.
 
Below you will find all pertinent information regarding tickets, parking, tailgating and live coverage, along with complete game notes. SRU does not print physical copies of game programs. This page will serve as a digital game program with links to rosters, schedules, stats, live coverage and complete game notes.
 

Game 11: East Stroudsburg at Slippery Rock
The Rock (10-0)	ESU Warriors (9-1)
Game Notes (PDF)	-
Depth Chart	Depth Chart
Roster	Roster
Schedule	Schedule
Statistics	Statistics
Coach: Shawn Lutz	Coach: Jimmy Terwilliger
Program Records	Program Records
PSAC Standings  |  PSAC Stats Leaders  |  PSAC Schedule
Mihalik-Thompson Stadium  |  SRU Campus Map  |  Parking Map

 
LIVE INTERNET COVERAGE
• Live Stats  |  Provided by SRU Athletic Communication.
• Live Streaming Video  |  Provided by SRU Athletic Communication.
• Live Audio (Online and Radio)  |  Provided by The Rock Station 97.7 FM (Butler County).
• X (formerly Twitter)  |  In-game updates and highlights.
 
WATCH ON YOUR TV
• Fans can watch the game live and on-demand for free on the Rock Athletics Digital Network, created and operated by the SRU Athletic Communication Office.
• Search for "Rock Athletics Digital Network" in the app stores on Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku and Android TV devices to download the app. All 11 regular season SRU football games will be available on the app.
 
MOBILE APP
• Fans can also watch all PSAC football games on the PSAC Sports Digital Network mobile app that is available for free in the app stores on Apple and Android devices.
 
CASHLESS TRANSACTIONS AT SRU
SRU Athletics will continue to operate cashless for football this year. All parking lots, tickets and concessions will be card only. Please plan accordingly. Fans can save time and help speed up the entry process by purchasing tickets and Lot A parking in advance.
 
TICKETS
All fans are encouraged to help speed up the entry process by purchasing tickets online in advance and using the mobile QR code for entry on game day. Visit the links below to purchase tickets in advance.
 
• Purchase Tickets for This Game
• Stadium gates will open at 11:30 a.m.
• Chair-Back Reserved Seat - $15
• Reserved Bench Seat - $15
• Adult General Admission - $10
• Students Ages 6-High School – $5
• Children Ages 6 and Under – FREE
• SRU Students – FREE with valid student ID
• Students from Other Colleges - $5 with valid student ID
 
SRU FAN PARKING  
• Parking Map and Prices (PDF)
• Lot A Reserved Parking is SOLD OUT for this game.
• Lots open at 9 a.m.
• Shuttles will circle the paid parking lots to assist with transportation to the gates.
• Free parking is available in other campus lots not marked on the map above.
• Campus Map  |  Stadium is #56 on Map

EAST STROUDSBURG FAN PARKING
• Parking Map and Prices (PDF)
• Visiting fans can park together and tailgate in Lot E ($15 / CARD ONLY).
• Lot opens at 9 a.m.
• GPS Address: 246 Harmony Road, Slippery Rock, PA
• Visiting fans can enter the game through gate six, located at the field hockey/lacrosse building, which provides direct access to the visiting bleachers.
• Campus Map  |  Visitor parking is above building #61. Entry gate is at building #61.
 
TAILGATING
• Tailgating is allowed in paid lots four hours before kickoff (lots open at 9 a.m.)
• No Tailgating at halftime
• All Tailgaters must enter game at kickoff
• Tailgaters must vacate the lots 90 minutes after the game ends
• No hard liquor or glass bottles
• Adhere to all campus tailgating rules found HERE.
 
STUDENT GATE PROCEDURES
Students should bring their valid ID to enter the game through the student gate. Students can also show their CORE app at the gate. Only CURRENT students will be allowed to enter through the student gate. To speed up entry into the game, students should make sure to have their ID ready before getting to the gate.
 
BEER GARDEN WILL BE OPEN
Slippery Rock will partner with the North Country Brewing Company to operate a beer garden inside the stadium this year for home SRU football games. The beer garden will be located on the runoff of the track opposite the scoreboard end of the stadium. All patrons must be 21+ to enter the beer garden and all alcoholic beverages must be purchased and consumed in the beer garden. Sales will begin when stadium gates open at 11:30 a.m. and conclude at the kickoff of the third quarter.  

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THE GAME
No. 5 Slippery Rock and No. 14 East Stroudsburg will meet for the second time this season and will meet in the PSAC Championship game for the first time since clashing for the title in 1962.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES  |  Game-by-Game Scores
Slippery Rock owns a 17-3 advantage in the all-time series that dates all the way back to 1928. The Rock have won six straight games in the series, including the most recent, a 59-35 road victory back on Sept. 12 of this season. The last ESU victory in the series was at ESU back in 2009. This will be the seventh time the teams meet when SRU is ranked. The Rock are 6-0 in the previous six meetings while carrying a national ranking and are 1-0 against ESU in previous PSAC Championship games.
 
• First Meeting: 1928 (SRU won 13-6)
• Last Meeting: 2026 (SRU won 59-35)
• Current Streak: Slippery Rock +6
• at ESU: SRU leads 8-1
• at SRU: SRU leads 9-2
• Most Points Scored (ESU): 54 (2009)
• Biggest Win Margin (ESU): 26 (2009)
• Most Points Scored (SRU): 59 (2026)
• Biggest Win Margin (SRU): 42 (2016)
• Last ESU Win: 2009 at ESU (54-28)
 
COACHING MATCHUP
Slippery Rock head coach Shawn Lutz is in his 31st overall year at The Rock and his 11th year (10th season) as head coach, where he owns a 98-25 record with 10 straight winning seasons, six PSAC West titles and six trips to the NCAA playoffs. Lutz was the PSAC West Coach of the Year in 2018, 2019 and 2023 and was the Don Hansen Football Gazette Division II National Coach of the Year in 2019. The 98 wins are the most among all PSAC West head coaches since the 2016 season. Lutz was an assistant at SRU for 20 years before taking over the program in 2016. He has been a member of the coaching staff for 14 of SRU's 21 PSAC West titles. Lutz played tight end at West Virginia University, graduating in 1996, and earned a master's degree from SRU in 2003.
 
Jimmy Terwilliger is in his ninth year (eighth season) as the head coach at his Alma Mater, where he played quarterback and won the 2005 Harlon Hill Trophy as the Division II Player of the Year before graduating in 2007. Terwilliger was an assistant at ESU for four years before taking over as interim head coach for the final two games of the 2018 season. He owns a 52-28 overall record as the head coach at ESU, including a 36-9 mark since the start of the 2023 season with trips to the NCAA Playoffs in 2023 and 2024 and another likely NCAA trip this fall.
 
NATIONAL RANKINGS
Slippery Rock is No. 5 in the AFCA Division II national poll and No. 6 in the D2football.com poll this week. ESU is No. 14 in both polls, which are available on page nine of the PDF notes linked above. The Rock are No. 2 in the NCAA NPI computer rankings this week. ESU is No. 6. More info on NPI on available HERE.
 
SRU PSAC CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
Slippery Rock is making its ninth appearance in the PSAC Championship game since 2011 and its 14th overall appearance in the state game, which took place from 1960-87 and again from 2008-26. The Rock are looking for their 13th overall PSAC title and their first since 2019. SRU is 7-7 all-time in PSAC title game appearances and 1-0 against ESU in the state game with a win in 1962.
 
ESU PSAC CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
East Stroudsburg is back in the state game for the first time since 1983. The Warriors are looking for their 13th overall PSAC title and their first since 2003. ESU is 5-2-2 all-time in the state game and 0-1 against SRU with a loss in 1962.
 
NEITHER TEAM PICKED TO BE HERE
Neither of the two teams meeting this week were picked by the league's coaches to get here when the preseason poll came out in August. Slippery Rock was picked to finish second in the West behind Indiana (Pa.) and East Stroudsburg was picked to finish second in the East behind Kutztown. Both SRU (7-0) and ESU (6-0) went undefeated in their respective divisions this year.
 
BOTH TEAMS TOP SIX IN NCAA NPI RANKINGS
The NCAA Power Index (NPI) debuted this year in Division II. The NPI will be used to determine the national tournament fields moving forward, replacing the ranking committees. The NPI assigns a point value to each game and rewards teams for their winning percentage and strength of schedule. Slippery Rock is currently ranked No. 2 among all programs in Division II this week and No. 1 in Super Region One. East Stroudsburg is ranked No. 6 nationally and No. 2 in Super Region One.
 
NATIONAL NPI  |  NPI Rankings
Ferris State stayed No. 1 nationally this week with an NPI score of 70.999 as the only team in the country to top 70 in the ratings. Slippery Rock is No. 2 at 69.007 with a cushion of just over 1.5 points over No. 3 Harding (67.461). The rest of the top five includes No. 4 Northwood (65.939) and No. 5 Colorado State Pueblo (64.297). The top 10 is rounded out by East Stroudsburg (64.147), Benedict (62.956), Western Colorado (62.837), Northwest Missouri State (62775) and Kutztown (62.771) to give the PSAC three teams in the top 10 nationally.
 
SUPER REGION ONE RANKINGS
The current Super Region One top 10 rankings include Slippery Rock leading the way, followed by East Stroudsburg, Kutztown, Virginia Union and Johnson C. Smith rounding out the top five, which was unchanged this week. There was some shakeup in positions 6-10 this week with California (Pa.) moving up to No. 6 followed by Fayetteville State, Assumption, Virginia State and Shepherd.
 
PLAYOFF FIELD ANNOUNCED SUNDAY
The NCAA will announce the 32-team playoff field Sunday night at 6 p.m. in a selection show at ncaa.com. Both SRU and ESU are locks to make the postseason field, regardless of this week's results. The winner of the PSAC title game will earn an automatic bid, as will the conference winners in the CIAA, MEC and NE10. None of those other conference races will be decided until after Saturday's games.
 
6 UNBEATENS LEFT
Slippery Rock enters this weekend as one of just six teams in Division II that is still unbeaten on the year and as the only Super Region One team that is undefeated. The other undefeated teams are Colorado State Pueblo, Ferris State, Harding, Northwood and Western Colorado. All six teams are 10-0 entering this week. CSU Pueblo and Western Colorado will play each other this week, knocking at least one more team from the unbeaten ranks.
 
BACK IN THE TOP 5
Slippery Rock is ranked inside the top 10 for the seventh straight year and the 10th time in the last 11 seasons and The Rock are now ranked in the top five for the fourth straight season. SRU has been ranked in the top five in five seasons since 2021 and seven seasons since 1998.
 
STREAKING IN THE POLLS
Slippery Rock has been ranked or at least receiving votes in every AFCA national poll released since Oct. 8, 2018, a streak of more than 2,950 straight days.
 
10-0 REGULAR SEASON
Slippery Rock is 10-0 for the first time since the 2023 season and the third time in the last six seasons. The Rock won their first 10 games of the 2023 season and their first 13 games in 2019 to set the program's single-season winning streak record. This season marks just the third 10-0 start in program history with all three since 2019.
 
BEST OF THE WEST
Slippery Rock has won its first PSAC West title since 2023 and its 10th divisional crown since 2011. The Rock have now won the PSAC West 21 times. SRU had a rare down year in 2025 with a 3-3 divisional record, but has lost just three total divisional games in the other seven years combined dating back to 2018. The Rock are 48-6 in the PSAC West since 2018 and just wrapped up their fourth undefeated divisional season in that stretch. This season marks the seventh time in the last eight seasons that SRU finished PSAC West play with one or fewer losses.
 
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE
Rock football teams have compiled a 204-71 (.742) record in 51+ seasons at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium (formerly known as N. Kerr Thompson Stadium). The Rock own a 104-26 (.800) home record since artificial turf was installed in the summer of 2003 and are 100-20 (.833) in home games since 2005. The numbers get even better in recent years, as The Rock are 82-11 (.882) at home since the beginning of the 2010 season and 70-8 (.897) since the beginning of the 2013 season. SRU is 52-8 (.867) at home under Shawn Lutz and has never lost more than one home game in a season under Lutz.
 
17TH STRAIGHT WINNING SEASON
Slippery Rock is already guaranteed to finish with a winning season this fall, extending its current streak of winning seasons to 17 straight years.  The Rock entered this year ranked ninth among all Division II programs for the longest active winning seasons streak in the country. The only other program in the PSAC with more consecutive winning seasons currently is California (Pa.), which has already extended its streak to 22 straight seasons. 
 
LUTZ UP TO 11TH ON PSAC WINS LIST
SRU head coach Shawn Lutz won his 98th game at The Rock last week, which is No. 11 on the all-time PSAC head football coaching wins ledger. Lutz is four wins shy of cracking the PSAC all-time top 10 wins list, which includes just 10 other men to ever record 100 wins in the conference.
 
LAST MEETING WITH EAST STROUDSBURG  |  Box Score
Slippery Rock used a 28-0 run in the middle of the game to pull away for a 59-35 win at East Stroudsburg in a night game back on Sept. 12 in what was the second game of the season for SRU and third for ESU. The Rock racked up 38 first downs, 594 yards of total offense, 344 rushing yards and 250 passing yards in the game. SRU scored on seven straight drives before taking a knee to end the game. ESU put up big numbers. The teams combined for 27 penalties for 286 penalty yards with both teams racking up 143 penalty yards. JayJay Jordan ran for 228 yards and three TD to lead SRU. DaOne Owens was 23-of-30 for 250 yards with three TD and no INT and John Sabo caught eight passes for 93 yards and two TD. SRU played without its top defensive end, Brett Kwoka, who missed the game with an injury. ESU QB Harrison Susi went 13-of-22 for 213 yards with one TD and ran for a team-high 60 yards. Cade Sawyer and Ajani Walker both ran for 54 yards and one score.
 
LAST WEEK FOR SLIPPERY ROCK
Slippery Rock jumped out to a 21-0 halftime lead and scored 22 fourth quarter points to run away with a 50-17 win over Edinboro. The Rock outgained Edinboro 540-306 in total offense with 325 passing yards and 215 rushing yards. DaOne Owens threw for 325 yards with four TD and no INT and ran for 71 yards on nine carries. JayJay Jordan ran for 121 yards and three TD. Carson Heckathorn caught two TD passes and Telly Palmer had career-highs with seven grabs for 86 yards and one TD. Ben Lane matched his career high with 10 tackles and had a career-high 2.0 TFL to lead the defense.
 
LAST WEEK FOR EAST STROUDSBURG
East Stroudsburg scored the final 33 points of the game to cruise to a 54-14 win at Millersville (1-9) last week. The Warriors outgained Millersville 546-281 with 286 rushing yards and 260 passing yards. QB Matt Machalik was 14-of-20 for 193 yards passing and ran for a team-high 61 yards on just three carries. Ajani Walker and Deante Crawford both ran for 42 yards and one TD. ESU had 10 different men get carries in the game with nobody carrying the ball more than nine times. Cam Jefferson led the defense with six solo tackles and three tackles for loss.
 
EAST STROUDSBURG QUICK HITS
• ESU is 9-1 overall and up to No. 6 in the NCAA NPI rankings and No. 14 the AFCA national poll.
• The Warriors have won seven straight games, including a 32-25 overtime win over Kutztown that snapped the Golden Bears' years-long stranglehold on the Eastern Division.
• ESU owns a high-powered offense that scores 37.5 points per game and puts up 424.6 total yards per game by way of 254.7 rushing yards and 169.9 passing yards per game.
• The defense is stingy, allowing 17.1 points per game and 295.5 yards of total offense per game with 187.3 passing yards and just 108.2 rushing yards per game.
• The Warriors have allowed only eight rushing TD all year.
• ESU made a QB change since the first game against SRU this year, going to Lehigh transfer Matt Machalik, who has completed 59.5% of his passes for 980 yards with eight TD and just one INT while also rushing for 147 yards and two scores.
• Harrison Susi, who played against SRU, is completing 56.4% of his passes for 640 yards with seven TD and three INT and is second on the team in rushing with 510 yards and three TD.
• RB Ajani Walker leads the team with 638 yards and five TD on just 98 carries. Cade Sawyer has a team-high eight rushing TD to go along with 447 yards and Deante Crawford has 484 yards and five TD in a committee backfield.
• WR Elijah Ford is one of the top pass catchers in the PSAC and leads the team with 33 grabs for 636 yards and four TD.
• One of ESU's biggest weapons is kicker Ty Quintois, who leads the team with 105 points thanks to 21 made field goals on 25 attempts and a perfect 42-of-42 mark in PAT kicks. Two of his four misses are from 50+ yards and he has a season-long of 55 yards.
• Camerin Gross leads the defense with 58 tackles and 10.5 TFL while Ashton Blose has 45 tackles, 8.0 TFL and 3.5 sacks.
 
SRU ONLY TEAM TO RUN AGAINST ESU
The Warriors enter this game having allowed just eight total rushing TD all season and five of those came against The Rock. Slippery Rock ran for 344 yards and five TD in the win at ESU back on Sept. 12. That game accounts for 32% of the total rushing yards and 62.5% of the total rushing TD ESU has allowed all year. Since losing to SRU, the Warriors have allowed a total of 413 rushing yards and two rushing TD combined over the last seven weeks.
 
ANOTHER WEEKLY AWARD FOR OWENS
QB DaOne Owens was named the PSAC West Offensive Athlete of the Week this week for the second time this season after accounting for 396 total yards and four TD in the win over Edinboro. Owens was 25-of-31 passing for 325 yards with four TD and ran for 71 yards on nine carries.

OWENS LEADING PSAC IN EVERY CATEGORY
QB DaOne Owens ranks first in the PSAC in every passing category and in total offense. He ranks No. 6 in the nation in points responsible for (200), No. 8 in total offense (3,063 yards), No. 9 in passing efficiency (171.1), No. 10 in passing TD (25) and No. 12 in completion percentage (67.5%). He has completed 181-of-268 passes for 2,394 yards with 25 TD and three INT while also rushing for 669 yards and eight TD and averaging 9.8 yards per carry.
 
OWENS CLIMBING SRU LISTS ALREADY
QB DaOne Owens is up to sixth in SRU history in total offense with 5,047 yards, becoming just the sixth player in program history to reach 5,000 yards of total offense. He is up to No. 8 in career TD passes and No. 10 in career passing yards less than two full seasons into his career.

JORDAN EXTENDS TD RECORDS
RB JayJay Jordan has already set the SRU single-season records for rushing TD (24) and total TD (28) this fall while climbing up to No. 4 in SRU history in career touchdowns with 43 total scores. He is three touchdowns away from climbing into a tie for No. 2 on the SRU career TD ledger. Jordan's 28 TD this year includes two receiving scores and two punt return TD. He is one of only two players in the country with two punt return TD this fall (Cameron Wright from Findlay).
 
JORDAN EYES ALL-PURPOSE RECORD
JayJay Jordan has racked up 1,878 all-purpose yards yards this year to rank third among all players in the country. That tally is also third in single-season history at SRU. He needs 116 more yards to top Marcus Johnson's SRU record of 1,993 all-purpose yards from 2017. Jordan is also just 57 all-purpose yards away from becoming the seventh player in SRU history to reach 4,000 career all-purpose yards.
 
JORDAN LEADS PSAC RUSHERS
JayJay Jordan leads the PSAC in every rushing metric and all-purpose yardage. He ranks No. 1 in the nation in rushing TD (24), total TD (28) and scoring (200 pts), No. 3 nationally in yards per carry (7.93) and all-purpose yards per game (187.7) and No. 6 nationally in total rushing yards (1,388) and rushing yards per game (138.8).
 
JORDAN TOP SCORER IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
JayJay Jordan enters this week ranked No. 1 in the NCAA in both rushing touchdowns and total touchdowns among all players across all four divisions (FBS, FCS, DII, DIII) with his 24 rushing TD and 28 total TD. No other player at any level of the NCAA is even tied with him in either category.
 
HIGHEST SCORING OFFENSE IN D1 OR D2
Slippery Rock enters this week as the only 50+ point per game offense at the NCAA Division I or II level, including all teams in the FBS, FCS and Division II. The only other NCAA teams from any level currently scoring 50+ points per game are Division III teams Lake Forrest (60.9 ppg) and Endicott (54.2 ppg).
 
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES
Slippery Rock has scored 529 points through 10 games this year after scoring just 327 points in 10 games last season. The Rock have scored 74 touchdowns in 10 games and are now eyeing the programs single-season records of 87 TD and 633 total points, both set over 14 games in 2015. SRU is also eyeing the team single-season rushing TD record and has 41 in 10 games this year, five shy of the record of 46 from 2015.
 
NO. 1 OFFENSE IN THE NATION
Slippery Rock enters this week ranked No. 1 in Division II in scoring offense (52.9 points per game), total offense (546.8 yards per game) and fewest turnovers (4). The Rock rank No. 2 in fewest sacks allowed (3), No. 3 in total first downs (266), No. 7 in rushing offense (277.6 yards per game), No. 11 in passing efficiency (170.4), No. 13 in red zone offense (91.1 percent) and No. 18 in passing offense (269.2 yards per game).
 
BALANCED OFFENSE
The Rock's potent offense is among the most balanced in the nation. To get to the 546.8 total yards per game, SRU is averaging 277.6 rushing yards and 269.2 passing yards per game, putting up similar averages through the air and on the ground. SRU has run the ball 367 times and thrown it 305 times through 10 games.
 
TOO MANY GUYS TO COVER
A total of 13 different players have caught passes for SRU this year with eight players having double digit catches and 13 players having multiple grabs on the year. Nine different players have at least 100 yards receiving. Hamilton Gates (28 catches, 479 yards, 3 TD), John Sabo (33-412-8), Vincent Berardi (31-357-5), Ethan Trettel (19-289-2), JayJay Jordan (28-249-2), Reggie Fleurima (15-194-1), Carson Heckathorn (13-187-4), Telly Palmer (13-175-2) and Luke McCoy (6-117-0) all have at least 117 receiving yards on the year.
 
SINGLE-GAME STREAKS
WR John Sabo has now caught at least one pass in 19 straight games. RB JayJay Jordan has at least one touchdown in 16 straight games.
 
BIG GUYS DESERVE SOME LOVE
LT Varrius Farrell, RG Christian Werling and RT Jake Jonassen have started all 10 games this season. They've been joined by Soren Stoltzfus, Brian Frasco, Mike Crist and Mohamed Aly in the starting lineup on the offensive line. That group, which had a combined three total starts among the whole unit entering this season, has allowed just three sacks in 10 games this year while blocking for the No. 1 total offense in the nation. SRU ranks No. 2 nationally in fewest sacks allowed.
 
ONLY FOUR TURNOVERS
Slippery Rock leads all programs in Division II with only four total turnovers on the year. The Rock have played seven games without a single turnover and have turned it over in only three games. SRU currently ranks No. 1 nationally in fewest turnovers (4) and No. 5 in turnover margin (+1.40 per game).
 
TAKEAWAYS
SRU has recorded takeaways in nine of 10 games this year, including three against Minnesota Duluth in the opener, one against Millersville, two against California, three against Gannon, one against Seton Hill, three against IUP, two against Lock Haven and two against Clarion and one against Edinboro. ESU is the only team that has not turned the ball over against SRU. The Rock have 14 interceptions and four recovered fumbles on the year with one of those fumbles being returned 65 yards for a touchdown by Aaron Scales Jr. and one of the picks being returned 40 yards for a TD by Owen Suah. SRU ranks ninth in Division II in interceptions (14) and No. 6 nationally in pass efficiency defense (98.8).
 
BALL HAWKS
DB Evan Harper pulled down his team-leading fourth INT of the season last week. Harper (4), Owen Suah (2), Carmen Metcalfe (2) and Kwalil Shepperson (2) all have multiple picks on the year. Suah had a career-high five pass breakups last week against Edinboro and has 12 on the season and Aaron Scales Jr. had four pass breakups last week and now has seven on the year.
 
TACKLES SPREAD OUT ACROSS DEFENSE
Slippery Rock has not relied on one standout defensive player this year and is getting contributions up and down the defense. The Rock have 21 different players with double digit tackles on the year and 13 players between 28 and 50 total stops on the year. Ben Lane leads the group with 50 tackles, while Teddy Gregory Jr. is second with 48. Elijah Halley owns team-highs of 8.0 TFL and 4.0 sacks while Brett Kwoka, Brian Young Jr. and Aaron Scales Jr. all have 7.0 TFL. Evan Harper (4 INT, 3 PBU) and Owen Suah (2 INT, 12 PBU)  lead the secondary and both have at least 30 tackles.
 
TEAM CAPTAINS
After voting by the players, SRU named six captains for the 2026 season with three on offense and three on defense. The offensive captains include running back JayJay Jordan, quarterback Brad Hoffman and tight end Vincent Berardi. The defensive captains include defensive end Brian Young Jr. and linebackers Jacob Snow and Teddy Gregory Jr.
 
JORDAN NAMED TO ALLSTATE AFCA GOOD WORKS TEAM
RB JayJay Jordan is one of only 22 total players from all levels of college football and three Division II players to be named to this year's Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, recognizing his good works off the field and his commitment to community service. Jordan is active in numerous charitable and community service projects, which included traveling to Puerto Rico to help recovery from hurricanes and numerous projects that serve both the SRU community and his hometown community of Reading, Pennsylvania. He will be recognized on the field at the Allstate Sugar Bowl and CFP National Semifinal Jan. 15in New Orleans.
 
UP NEXT
The NCAA will announce the national playoff field in a selection show Sunday night at 6 p.m. at NCAA.com. Slippery Rock is a virtual lock to earn a home game in the opening round next Saturday, Nov. 21, regardless of the outcome of this week's game.
 



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