The Wildcats have blown out two lesser opponents and been blown out by an FBS own. Saturday, they will finally play a team of a similar talent level.
) at home against No. 17 Rhode Island will be the first time they face a team of a similar talent level.
“I think this weekend will be a good barometer to see how good we are,"Villanova head coach Mark Ferrante said Wednesday, “or how good we can be.”Like Villanova, Rhode Island won two games against weaker squads and lost to an FBS opponent. Unlike Villanova, the Rams’ wins were against league opponents — and they almost won their FBS matchup.
The Rams nearly upset Georgia State in their opener, losing 42-35, though they led early in the second half. Their wins came against perennial CAA strugglers Maine and Stony Brook., a seventh-year senior who started at Maryland and spent a year at Tennessee. Hill leads the CAA in total offense at 313.7 yards per game. He’s thrown for 941 yards and eight touchdowns, but he’s a threat to run as well, with 276 rushing attempts over three-plus years with as the Rams.
“It’s like having another coach on the field,” Ferrante said of Hill’s experience. “He’s a really good football player.”s, a graduate student from Coatesville, has at least 99 receiving yards in all three games. Top running back Ja’Den McKenzie, who ran for 121 yards and a touchdown against Maine, is from Morton.
McKenzie spent his undergraduate career at Division II West Chester before transferring to Rhode Island. He’s 6-foot-3, 230 pounds and physical, but“He would run over people in our league, and he’s sneaky fast,” Zwaan said. “So he would run over that guy, get behind the secondary and then run away from everybody because nobody knew he could run away from people. They knew he was big and hit hard, but they didn’t realize how fast he was.”, it needs to establish its run game.
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