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INDIANAPOLIS – Butler's final home game of the 2018 season will be played on Saturday against Stetson. The 12 PM kick-off will serve as Senior Day.
 
Bulldog Bits
- Pace Temple recorded 196 receiving yards at Jacksonville, posting the sixth-highest total in Butler history.
- Temple hauled in four catches for 98 yards in the first quarter last week. He had 170 yards at halftime.
- Will Marty threw for 425 yards at Jacksonville to set a new-career high.
- Marty has completed at least 20 passes in three-straight games.
- Will Marty ranks 17th in the FCS in completions per game. (21.1).
- Marty accounted for four touchdowns at Jacksonville. Two rushing and two passing.
- Anthony Scaccia scored two rushing touchdowns at Jacksonville.
- Butler set new season-high totals at Jacksonville in total offense (556), points (44), and first downs (27).
- BU averaged 7.7 yards per play last week. Marty averaged 10.6 yards per pass.
- BU went 7-for-13 on third down at Jacksonville.
- The 'Dawgs scored on all six of their red zone possessions. 5 TD's and one field goal.
- Thomas Baldwin scored the first TD of his BU career at Jacksonville on a 52-yard pass.
- Butler and Jacksonville combined for 13 touchdowns and just six total punts.
- Mickey Kane leads the PFL in sacks with 5.
- Luke Sennett leads the team and ranks second in the PFL with 93 tackles.
- Sennett ranks 11th in the FCS in total tackles.
- Carter Raleigh ranks fifth in the PFL with 69 tackles.
- Raleigh and Kane each made three tackles for loss at Jacksonville.
- Evan Giebel averaged 47.3 yards per punt at Jacksonville, his highest average of the season. Two of his three punts traveled 50+ yards.
 
2018 Standings
San Diego 6-0, 7-2
Marist 5-1, 5-4
Stetson 5-1, 7-1
Drake 4-2, 5-3
Dayton 3-3, 4-5
Davidson 2-4, 5-4
Morehead State 2-4, 3-6
Butler 1-5, 3-6
Jacksonville 1-5, 2-6
Valparaiso 1-5, 1-8
 
PFL Schedule - Week 11
Stetson at Butler * 12:00 p.m.
Morehead State at Dayton * 1:00 p.m.
Jacksonville at Valparaiso * 1:00 p.m.
Marist at Drake * 2:00 p.m.
Davidson at San Diego * 5:00 p.m.
 
SCOUTING STETSON: The Hatters are 5-1 in PFL action with their lone setback coming at San Diego 49-10. They pulled out close wins vs. Marist (19-14), Drake (23-21), Jacksonville (38-35), and Davidson (56-53) to climb up to second in the PFL standings. Their last game was a 48-24 win at home over Morehead State. Stetson has one of the top offenses in the PFL this season. QB Colin McGovern ranks second in the league in passing yards per game (271.9) and TE Donald Parham leads the PFL in receiving yards per game (135.9). McGovern has 19 touchdown passes this season to go along with 2,183 yards. Parham is a 6-8 tight end approaching 1,000 receiving yards (951). He has nine touchdowns in 2018. The team leader is WR Steven Burdette with 10. No one player stands out on the Hatter defense, but the unit ranks second in the league in pass defense (198.5). 12 different players have a sack and six different student-athletes have at least one interception.
 
Matias Gasc was named PFL Special Teams Player of the Week. He averaged 44.3 yards on seven punts for the Hatters.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES: Butler is 3-0 vs. Stetson. The first meeting between the two programs was played in 2013 with Butler posting a 35-15 victory. A year later, BU would win on the road 49-41. After a two-year hiatus, Butler traveled down to Stetson to record a 23-6 win over the Hatters in 2017.
 
Stetson joined the PFL in 2013. PFL teams only play eight league games per year and with 10 members in 2015 and 2016, teams would only face eight of the 10 members explaining why Butler and Stetson did not play during that time.
 
LAST MEETING: Butler scored 23 unanswered points to win at Stetson last year 23-6. The Hatters scored first, but the Butler defense would settle in and decide the outcome. Butler returned two interceptions for touchdowns and added a safety early in the fourth quarter to take control.
 
Butler's only offensive touchdown last year at Stetson came on a five-yard run from RB Anthony Scaccia.
 
ALL-TIME GREAT: Pace Temple caught 12 passes for a career-high 196 yards at Jacksonville to become the Butler's all-time career leader in receiving yards (3,123). The old recorded belonged to Zach Watkins (2,994). Temple joined Watkins as just the second player in school history to catch more than 200 passes in his Bulldog career (209).
 
Temple became the seventh PFL player to reach 3,000 career receiving yards.
 
MARTY MAKES HIS MARK: QB Will Marty continues to climb the all-time passing list at Butler. Marty heads into Saturday with 4,977 career passing yards, the fifth-highest total in school history. He is now 492 yards shy of fourth place (Matt Lancaster '12-'13).
 
Marty set season-high totals in yards (425) and completions (29) at Jacksonville. TD passes went to Pace Temple and Thomas Baldwin. Marty also rushed for two scores.
 
SENNETT SETS NEW CAREER-HIGH AT JACKSONVILLE: Luke Sennett will attempt to become the first Bulldog to reach 100 total tackles in a single-season since 2012. Sennett recorded a career-high 17 tackles at Jacksonville last week to move his season total to 93. The last Bulldog to reach 100 tackles was LB Jordan Ridley (101).
 
Sennett has reached a double figure tackle total in five of BU's nine games this year.
 
STUFF THE RUN: Butler didn't allow a single rushing first down last year when they faced Stetson. The Hatters ended the game with -21 rushing yards.
 
Stetson's top RB in 2018 is freshman Jareem Westcott. He ranks sixth in the PFL in rushing yards per game (80.5).
 
FIELD POSITION BATTLE: Evan Giebel and Matias Gasc put on a punting clinic last year. Each student-athlete punted the ball seven times, connecting on two punts over 50+ yards, and one landing inside the opponent 20-yard line. Giebel averaged 41.3 yards per punt (289 total yards). Gasc averaged 41.9 (293).
 
Giebel's career average on 87 total punts is 38.5 yards. The school record is 39.5 (Shawn Wood, 1995-98).
 
IRON MAN: Redshirt senior Anthony Scaccia is on pace to become just the 10th player in Butler football history to play in 45 career games.
 
Scaccia has recorded 1,962 all-purpose yards in his Butler career (1192 rushing / 699 receiving, 71 returns). He has posted 500+ all-purpose yards in three consecutive seasons.
 
144 MORE: Pace Temple needs 144 more yards to reach 1,000 this season. Temple recorded 1,075 receiving yards as a junior (school record) and came up just 22 yards shy of the 1,000 mark as a sophomore.
 
Temple has 20 receiving touchdowns in his career, his longest catch as a Bulldog came last week (54 yards).
 
ITS GOOD: Drew Bevelhimer has made 33 field goals during his Bulldog career, just three shy of the all-time career school record. The BU record currently belongs to David Lang who hit 35 field goals from 2008-11.
 
Drew Bevelhimer's longest made field goal at Butler was a 47-yarder (2016).
 
UP NEXT: The 2018 season will come to a close next weekend with Butler playing at Davidson. Kick-off is scheduled for 1 PM.