The 2022 College football season starts off on Saturday with Week 0, and the principal round of the day stateside will occur in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Austin Peay vs Western Kentucky
Falling off a 9-5 season that remembered a 59-28 triumph over Appalachian State for the Boca Raton Bowl, the WKU Hilltoppers are expecting to start off the season decidedly at home against the Austin Peay Governors.
Austin Peay, an FCS part in the Ohio Valley Conference, is falling off its subsequent winning season (6-5) in three missions, however, it’s actually searching for its most memorable FBS win since disturbing Kansas State in 1987. Throughout the last ten years, the Governors are 0-15 in such games, just drawing near five scores once (lost to Cincinnati 26-14 in 2017).
How to Watch NCAAF
- Match: Austin Peay vs Western Kentucky
- Date: Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022
- Time: Noon
- Location: Houchens-Smith Stadium — Bowling Green, Kentucky
- TV: CBS Sports Network
- Live stream: FuboTV (Try For Free)
Saturday will be the third gathering among WKU and Austin Peay, schools that are isolated by under 70 miles, and the initial time starting around 2012. The Hilltoppers have won the two gatherings in the series.
At the point when Austin Peay Has the Ball
Austin Peay should supplant a few vital starters from last year’s offense. The Governors lost their two top sprinters, quarterback Draylen Ellis, and three of their main four collectors.
The best offense for Austin Peay may be on the opposite side of the ball. Last season, the Governors were second in the FCS with 19 capture attempts. WKU flaunted the country’s top passing offense last season and found the middle value of 50 pass endeavors for every game so assuming that pattern proceeds, Austin Peay’s guard might possibly set the offense up for certain short fields in the event that it can produce a few important points.
At the point when WKU Has the Ball
Subsequent to embracing a large part of the Houston Baptist offense through the expansion of the Huskies’ previous hostile facilitator Zach Kittley and quarterback Bailey Zappe, the Hilltoppers illuminated the scoreboard and set various records last season. Kittley is currently in a similar job at Texas Tech while Zappe is in the NFL, so WKU is fairly beginning once again on offense.
Lead trainer Tyson Helton is utilizing a board of trustees to lead this side of the ball with Ben Arbuckle (quarterbacks), Josh Crawford (wide recipients), and Zach Langford (hostile line) all filling in as co-hostile organizers. Helton likewise plunged once again into the exchange entrance to find his sign guest with West Florida moves Austin Reed destroying West Virginia graduate exchange Jarret Doege for the beginning position. Doege has since supposedly been selected at Troy.
Reed is falling off of a major season for West Florida, a Division II program, tossing for 3,418 yards, 38 scores and eight captures. Reed’s Argonauts went 9-2 out of 2021, losing to Newberry College in the principal round of the end of the season games.
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Reed has never played in an FBS game and has enormous shoes to fill as Zappe tossed for 5,967 yards and 62 scores, both single-season FBS records. Collectively, the Hilltoppers were No. 2 in both aggregates (536.2 ypg) and scoring (44.2 ppg) offenses. Other than Zappe, the main two wide beneficiaries (Jerreth Sterns and Mitchell Tinsley) are gone too. A few focus from last season’s return, a gathering that is driven by Daewood Davis (43 rec., 763 yds., 8 TDs) and Malachi Coley (73, 691, 7), and the getting corps likewise has added MAC moves Michael Mathison and Jaylen Hall.
Last Analysis
Austin Peay, with its guard, won’t be a sucker for WKU. Nonetheless, the Hilltoppers enjoy a gigantic benefit upsettingly. While a few pieces from last season’s productive offense are gone, the Hilltoppers actually return a lot of ability at the expertise positions, including running back.
In the event that WKU gets off to a quick beginning at home, it very well may be hard for the FCS Governors to return. Austin Peay’s best expectation is that its safeguard can hold this game back from turning into a victory.
Forecast: WKU 51, Austin Peay 21
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