The Lindenwood football team (3-5, 2-2 BS/OVC) takes on Western Illinois (3-4, 2-1 BS/OVC) for homecoming. Kickoff from St. Charles, Mo. is set for 2:00 p.m.
 
Lindenwood is coming off a close 42-35 loss last week at Gardner-Webb. The offense presented a balanced attack, throwing for 244 yards and rushing for 213 more. Nate Glantz threw three touchdown passes as Reece Thomas, Jeff Caldwell and Drew Krobath each found the endzone. Caldwell finished the day with six catches for 174 yards and a score. The 6-5 wideout continues his stellar junior campaign and leads the Big South-OVC Association with 779 yards and nine touchdowns. This was the second game of his career with at least 174 receiving yards, the other coming last season against Western Illinois where he had five catches for 185 yards and four scores.
 
The ground game continues to be effective for the Lions as the Black and Gold tallied over 200 rushing yards for the second-consecutive game. A big reason for that was Steve Hall as the redshirt freshman compiled 78 yards on the ground while finding the endzone for the first time in his career. As a result, Hall was tabbed the Big South-OVC Association co-Freshman of the Week. So far this season, Lindenwood averaged 169.9 rushing yards per game, second-most in the conference.
 
Vincent King was also recognized for his performance on the defensive side of the ball. The Denver, Colo. native had 15 tackles, including three stops for loss as well as a quarterback hurry. The senior linebacker has made 77 tackles so far this season, which leads the conference and ranks third in FCS. For his efforts against Gardner-Webb, King was tabbed the Defensive Player of the Week.
 
Lindenwood has won the only meeting between the two schools in program history, a 43-40 shootout last season. Caldwell had four touchdowns in that game. WIU enters the matchup with a 3-4 record and winners of two out of its last three.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
4: The Lions have gone 4-4 in their last eight homecoming games
13: Nate Glantz has become a dual threat at quarterback, topping 13 or more rushing attempts in each of the last three games. He had a season-high 17 two weeks ago in a win against Charleston Southern
9: Lindenwood had a season-high nine tackles for loss against Gardner-Webb. Vincent King led the team with three on his way to earning Big South-OVC Defensive Player of the Week
457: The number yards Lindenwood gained on offense last week, its second-highest total of the season

LINDENWOOD TID BITS FROM AROUND THE LEAGUE
The Lindenwood football team (3-5, 2-2 BS/OVC) welcomes Western Illinois for homecoming on Saturday. Kickoff is set for 2:00 p.m. Lindenwood won the first-ever meeting with Western Illinois last season, 43-40, in a non-conference match-up.
 
Lindenwood finished the Gardner-Webb game with 244 passing yards and 213 net rushing yards, its second game this season with 200-passing, 200-rushing yards in a game -- the only Big South-OVC member this year to achieve the feat ... Jeff Caldwell caught six passes for a season-high 174 yards at GWU. QB Nate Glantz threw three touchdown passes in leading the Lions to their most points in a Big South-OVC Association contest (35) ... Lindenwood has scored 20+ points in every Association game this season, and is averaging 28.0 points against league foes ... Vincent King posted his league-leading fifth 10-tackle game with 15 stops (3.0 TFL), and paces the conference with 77 total tackles.
 
AT FIRST GLANTZ
Nate Glantz became just the second quarterback in Big South-OVC Association history to throw for 100 yards and rush for 100 yards in the same game when he achieved the feat this past week in the Lions' 29-14 victory over Charleston Southern. He passed for 152 yards and gained a team-high 103 yards on the ground to account for 255 of Lindenwood's 392 offensive yards vs. the Bucs.
 
LOGAN'S KICK
Logan Seibert broke his own Big South-OVC Association single-game record for kick scoring with 17 points in the Lions' 29-14 win over Charleston Southern this past week. He converted an Association single-game record five field goals along with two PATs to surpass his previous mark of 16 points vs. St. Thomas in Week 4. Seibert and Southeast Missouri K DC Pippin share the league-lead with 13 field goals made, which eclipse the Association's single-season record of 12 set last year by Tennessee State's James Lowrey
 
HOUSE CALLS
Jeff Caldwell tied the Big South-OVC Association records for consecutive games with a touchdown reception (4) as well as his own single-season touchdown receptions (8). His eight receiving scores this year came in a four-game span during Weeks 3-6, which included a Big South-OVC single-game record-tying four touchdown receptions in Week 5. For the season, Caldwell is reaching the end zone on 28.57 percent of his 28 receptions. Meanwhile, Caldwell is responsible for five of the Association's longest pass plays in history:
 Yards Rank Opponent (Date)
 93t 1st vs. St. Thomas (9-21-24)
 79t T-4th at Missouri State (9-14-24)
 74t T-7th at Eastern Illinois (9-28-24)
 74t T-7th at Eastern Illinois (9-28-24)
 73t T-8th at Illinois State (9-23-23)
 72t T-9th at Western Illinois (9-16-23)