• Northwestern and Keiser set for a 2022 NAIA national championship game rematch on December 18.
• NWC looks for their third undefeated season (1983, 1973) (as a four-year institution, since 1960).
• NWC is coming off their seventh-straight FCS win with a 35-10 win over Georgetown (Ky.).
• The Red Raiders win streak is up to 27-straight games.
• The 10 interceptions from Cody Moser continues to hold the national lead.
• With one more, he would set the single-season program record for INTs (available records back to 1998 season only).
• Michael Storey sits second in the NAIA in receiving touchdowns (16) – leads the GPAC.
• Konner McQuillan sits T4th in the NAIA in rushing scores (20) – leads the GPAC.
• For the sixth-straight season, a GPAC team will compete for the NAIA national title.
• NWC is the only unbeaten team left in the NAIA.
• In December under McCarty, the Red Raiders are 4-1; winning their last four games.
• NWC is 24-0 with Jalyn Gramstad as the starting quarterback.
• He sits seventh all-time in program history in passing touchdowns (58).
• The Raiders scored 70 touchdowns this season: 36 rushing, 33 passing, and one defensive (pick-six).
• NWC leads the GPAC in points per game (37.6), first downs per game (23.9), third-down conversions (60%), passing yards per completion (13.8), passing yards per attempt (9.7).
• Northwestern was ranked No. 1 all season long, holding the unanimous top spot the entire regular season.
• Ben Kingery leads the team in tackles (84) and Trystin Voss & Jacob Dragstra lead the team in TFLS (11.5).
• Voss also leads the team in sacks (6) with his sack against Saint Xavier.
• Northwestern has pitched two shutouts this year: at Mount Marty (42-0), vs. Dordt (FCS) (7-0).
• Since 2020 when the deep playoff runs began for Northwestern, NWC is one of eight NAIA programs to make the NAIA Football Championship Series (FCS) (see p. 5 of notes for full list of teams).

• The Red Raiders saw four athletes honored by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and NAIA All-American teams.
• Jalyn Gramstad highlighted the honorees with his AFCA/NAIA First Team (QB) All-American honors.
• AFCA/NAIA Second Team Honorees included Konner McQuillan (RB) and Cody Moser (DB).
• Michael Storey was tabbed a NAIA Third Team (WR) honoree.

𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 𝙏𝙀𝘼𝙈 𝘼𝙇𝙇-𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙉 ‼️🏈

QB1 led the Red Raiders back to Durham and has been tabbed a First Team All-American!

He has thrown for 3,000+ yards, 33 TD, 70.7% completion pct.; 700+ rushing yards, 8 TD!#RaidersStandOut | @nwc_fb | @NAIA | @WeAreAFCA pic.twitter.com/EUKbgUhvei

— NWC Red Raiders (@nwcraiders) December 13, 2023

• Announced on Wednesday, HC Matt McCarty was named the AFCA NAIA Region IV Coach of the Year for the second-straight season.
• It marks his third-career NAIA Region Coach of the Year honor.
• He was the 2022 AFCA NAIA National Coach of the Year after leading the program to their first national title since 1983.

• For the first time since the 1996 season, back when the conference was the NIAC, the Northwestern College football team are the outright conference champions!
• It marks the first outright GPAC title in program history – tied for the title in 2000 and 2014.
• It's the first GPAC title for head coach Matt McCarty, to go along with his 2022 NAIA National Championship.
• The Red Raiders will be presented their championship trophy and banner following the game on Saturday.

• The Red Raider offense has three key weapons on offense that can all explode onto the scene, making it a nightmare for opposing defenses to game plan for the Northwestern offense.
• Of the 69 offensive touchdowns scored this season, 44 (64%) have come from the trio of Gramstad, McQuillan, and Storey.  
• Jalyn Gramstad leads the league in total passing yards (3,381), completion percentage (70.7%), and passing touchdowns (33).
• He surpassed 3,000 passing yards for the first time in a season in his career.
• Konner McQuillan continues to lead the conference in rushing touchdowns (18) and is second in the conference in rushing yards per game (91.4).
• He's notched SIX 100-yard rushing yard games this season.
• He also sits fifth all-time at NWC in career rushing yards (3,584).
• Michael Storey continues to sit atop the GPAC in receiving touchdowns (16).
• His super-senior year has been the most productive of his career, holding the most receiving yards (1,354) in a season while at NWC (1,146 in 2022).
• He leads the program in career receptions (297); sits second in program history in receiving yards (4,549) and third in receiving touchdowns (45).

• With the win against Dakota Wesleyan, quarterback Jalyn Gramstad…
  • Moves up to eighth all-time in career passing yards (5,937).
  • He's just the 10^th Red Raider quarterback to notch 5,000 career passing yards.
  • Moves sits seventh all-time in passing TDs (58).
  • With his rushing score against SXU, he moves into 10^th all-time in career rushing TDs (31).
• Konner McQuillan has moved into fifth all-time in program history in career rushing yards (3,584).
  • He sits fourth in program history in career rushing scores (49).
  • He looks to become just the fourth Red Raider to have 50 or more rushing scores.
• Michael Storey has passed C. Moser for second all-time in career receiving yards (4,549).
  • He passed Solberg for the program's all-time leader in career receptions in the FCS win over Dordt.
  • Entering the FCS, he's on the hunt to pass Solberg for the program's all-time receiving yards mark, needing 227 yards to break the record.
  • He remains on the hunt for chasing down Moser and S. Solberg for career TD receptions (47 & 49, respectively), sitting with 45.
  • He's just the third Red Raider to have 40 or more receiving touchdowns in their career.
• Cody Moser needs just four interceptions to crack the program's top-10 all-time INT list.

• Converted cornerback turned safety, Cody Moser has made the transition this season look effortless this season.
• His 10 interceptions continues to lead the NAIA.
• His 10^th INT against SXU tied the program single-season record (records only available back to 1998).
• His two interceptions against Hastings was his first-career multi-interception game.
• He recorded his second multi-interception game (2) against Dakota Wesleyan (Nov. 4).
• He had a streak of four-straight games with a pick this season.
• In his Red Raider career, he's recorded 12 interceptions.
• He now needs just five picks to crack the top-10 all-time list in Red Raider football history.

• Northwestern downed NCAA FCS Drake back on September 9, 27-24, in overtime.
• After starting the season with three-straight losses, the Bulldogs ran the table in the Pioneer Football League (PFL) with an 8-0 record to receiver the league's automatic bid to the NCAA FCS Playoffs.

• Keiser boasts three major SUN Conference award winners in Freshman of the Year (Christian Ware), Coach of the Year (Doug Socha), and Special Teams Player of the Year (Wendol Philord).
• KU relies heavily on their run game, which sits top-10 in the NAIA (9^th) at 251.1 yards per game (surprisingly, that mark sat third in The SUN).
• Jaden Meizinger (Sr., RB) paces the Seahawk rushing attack, being one of three SUN athletes with 100+ rushing yards per game (106.1) and has 1,409 yards and 22 touchdowns on the season.
• His 22 rushing scores sits third in the NAIA.
• The Seahawks also have the top-3 SUN Conference leaders in pass break-ups in Louis Lubin II (13) and Justin Carcel and Kensley Johnson each have 12 break-ups.
• Keiser's run defense is stout at 98.8 rushing yards allowed per game (14^th in NAIA), but have allowed 210.2 passing yards per contest.

• Northwestern and Keiser will meet for just the second time in program history (NWC leads 1-0).
• The two teams met in the 2022 NAIA national championship game, NWC prevailing 35-25 in Durham.
• McCarty is 1-0 against the Seahawks.