• Northwestern and Georgetown set to meet for the first-time ever on the gridiron on Saturday.
• NWC is coming off their sixth-straight FCS win with a 34-17 win over Saint Xavier (Ill.).
• The Red Raiders win streak is up to 26-straight games.
• Northwestern is the only remaining unbeaten team in the NAIA following the Grand View loss last weekend.
• 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).
• Northwestern is now 21-7 in the month of November under head coach Matt McCarty.
• In December under McCarty, the Red Raiders are 3-1; winning their last three games.
• The Red Raiders took a weekly honor from the league office in nine of the 11 weeks this season.
• NWC is 23-0 with Jalyn Gramstad as the starting quarterback.
• NWC leads the GPAC in total yards per game (433.7), passing yards per completion (13.8), passing yards per attempt (9.4).
• The Raiders scored 65 touchdowns this season: 34 rushing, 30 passing, and one defensive (pick-six).
• Northwestern was ranked No. 1 all season long, holding the unanimous top spot the entire regular season.
• Konner McQuillan continues to lead the conference in rushing touchdowns (18) and is second in the conference in rushing yards per game (91.4).
• Michael Storey continues to sit atop the GPAC in receiving touchdowns (13).
• Trystin Voss took the team lead in sacks (6) with his sack last week 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).

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See you for the final game at De Valois this weekend, Red Raiders!#RaidersStandOut | #ChooseExcellence pic.twitter.com/b8Dl1BlXyp

— Northwestern College Football (@nwc_fb) December 5, 2023

• 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.

• 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.

The AFCA NAIA Regional Coach of the Year for Region 4 is @coachmmmcc head coach for @nwc_fb

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— AFCA (@WeAreAFCA) December 6, 2023

• Northwestern has gotten off to fast starts this season, outscoring opponents 92-23 in the first quarter this season.
• Only Concordia (Neb.), Midland, and Morningside, Jamestown, and Saint Xavier have scored on the Red Raider defense in the first quarter.
• NWC has held six opponents (Drake, Doane, Mount Marty, Hastings, Briar Cliff, Dordt (x2), Dakota Wesleyan) scoreless in the first 15 minutes of play.

• With the win against Dakota Wesleyan, quarterback Jalyn Gramstad…
  • Moves up to eighth all-time in career passing yards (5,738).
  • He's just the 10^th Red Raider quarterback to notch 5,000 career passing yards.
  • Moves into sole possession seventh all-time in passing TDs (55).
  • 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 (3,455).
  • His rushing score last week against SXU moves him into sole possession of fourth-place in career rushing scores (47), passing Jacob Kalogonis (2016-19).
• Michael Storey passed C. Moser for second all-time in career receiving yards (4,439).
  • 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 337 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 42.
  • 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 last week 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 last week (Nov. 4).
• He had a streak of four-straight games with a pick this season.
• In his Red Raider career, he's recorded 11 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.

• Saturday calls for temps in the mid-30s, with a high of 36 degrees.
• It's expected to be partly cloudy with a 6% chance of precipitation (as of Thursday afternoon).
• Winds expected to be out of the WNW at 5 to 10 mph.

• Saturday will mark the first-ever meeting between the Red Raiders and the Tigers.