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December 15,
2006
Football
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INDIANA STATE
ANNOUNCES 2007 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. —
Indiana State Director of Athletics Ron Prettyman announced today
(Dec. 15) that the 2007 football schedule has been completed. Next
season’s slate will feature six home games, as well as one in-state
road contest.
“We have put together a challenging schedule for our football
program next season,” Prettyman said. “2007 promises to be exciting
for our fans, players and coaches as we open at Indiana, and then
have six home games including three against members of the Gateway.
In addition, we look forward to the opportunity of facing Western
Kentucky twice more in the coming seasons as they transition to the
highest level of college football. With solid returnees on both
sides of the ball as well as what will prove to be a talented
recruiting class, we should be an entertaining team to watch next
season.”
The campaign kicks off Saturday, September 1 when the Sycamores
travel to Indiana to face the Hoosiers for the first time since
2003. The Hoosiers downed ISU 33-3 at Memorial Stadium the last time
they met. ISU will be facing Indiana on the gridiron for just the
third time since 1925.
The Sycamores open the home slate on September 8 when they host
Austin Peay of the Ohio Valley Conference. ISU was a 42-15 victor
over the Governors in the lone previous meeting between the two
schools -- at home in 1989.
ISU travels to Southeast Missouri State on September 15 for the
second of three consecutive games against OVC members, before
returning home to face Eastern Illinois on September 22. ISU is 3-2
all-time against SEMO, with the last meeting coming in 1999. EIU
downed the Sycamores 31-21 this past season in Charleston, Ill., and
will be making their first trip to Terre Haute, Ind., since opening
the Lou West era in August of 2005.
The Eastern Illinois game kicks off a season-long, three-game
homestand that is rounded out with a pair of Gateway Football
Conference games against recent NCAA Division I Playoff participant
Southern Illinois as well as Western Illinois. The Salukis come to
Memorial Stadium on September 29 while the Leathernecks appear on
October 6.
ISU travels to NCAA quarterfinalist Illinois State on October 13.
The Sycamores were downed by the Redbirds in the 2006 season finale
by score of 41-21.
Homecoming is October 20 when former Gateway Football Conference
member Western Kentucky comes to town in the first year of a
transition from the NCAA Division I Playoff classification to NCAA
Division I Bowls. Following this transition period, WKU will be a
full-time member of the Sun Belt Conference. ISU will make a return
trip to WKU in either 2008 or 2009 for the second game of this
non-conference series.
The Sycamores finish the year by traveling to Missouri State on
October 27, followed by the year’s final home game on November 3
versus Youngstown State and the season finale at Northern Iowa on
November 10.
ISU defeated MSU by a score of 28-22 on Homecoming this past season,
while the Penguins won the Gateway Football Conference Championship
and advanced to the NCAA Division I Playoff Final Four.
COMPLETE 2007 INDIANA STATE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE:
September 1 — at Indiana
September 8 — AUSTIN PEAY
September 15 — at Southeast Missouri State
September 22 — EASTERN ILLINOIS
September 29 — SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
October 6 — WESTERN ILLINOIS
Oct. 13 — at Illinois State
Oct. 20 — WESTERN KENTUCKY (Homecoming)
Oct. 27 — at Missouri State
Nov. 3 — YOUNGSTOWN STATE
Nov. 10 — at Northern Iowa
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