University of Richmond Athletics
Postgame Notes: No. 7 Richmond 23, No. 16 William & Mary 20
11/22/2008 | Football
Nov. 22, 2008
• This was the 118th all-time between rivals Richmond and William & Mary and the series dates back to the 1898 season. Richmond has now won four-straight, five of the last seven and seven of the last 11.
• Today game was the first in the Richmond-William & Mary series to be decided in overtime.
• William & Mary still leads the all-time series 59-54-5.
• The win marked just the third four-year sweep of the Tribe in the history of the series. The Spiders won seven-straight in the four years between 1912 and 1915, five-straight between 1919 and 1922 and four-straight between 1959 and 1962.
• The Richmond victory clinched just the fifth nine-win campaign in the 126 seasons of Spider football (1998, 2000, 2005, 2007 and 2008).
• The win is the Spiders' 35th over the last four years - the most of any four-year stretch in school history. The previous record was 30 between 1997-2000.
• Richmond improved to 8-1 all-time in games decided in overtime.
• Richmond improved to 6-2 on the road versus ranked teams since the start of the last season (9-3 versus ranked opponents overall in that time).
• Richmond came up empty on its first two drives of the game, marking just the second time this year that has happened (Virginia).
• Andrew Howard's kick marked the Spiders' first game-winning FG in OT since Doug Kirchner's versus Rhode Island on Nov. 4, 2000 - a 13-10 win.
• Richmond has picked off 21 passes this season, breaking the previous record of 20 by the 1973 squad.
• Sophomore CB Justin Rogers picked off his fifth and six passes of the season to tie him with four other Spiders for fourth on the single-season list. Assistant Coach Scott Burton had five picks in each of the 1991 and 1992 season, while Head Coach Mike London had six in 1982. Jeff Nixon's eight picks in 1976 is the school record, while Nixon and Taylor Lackey each had seven.
• Junior CB David Horton now has eight career interceptions, needing just one more to crack the Spiders' career top-10.
• The six interceptions was two shy of the school's single-game record of eight versus Hampden-Sydney in a 1938 game.
• With one sack in the game, senior DE Sherman Logan moved into fourth on Spiders' all-time list with 20, tying him with Shawn Barber (1994-97) and Justin Oravetz (1995-97).
• In Richmond's last four games, the opposition has recorded a total of five first-half first downs (Hofstra had three, Delaware had one and William & Mary had one).
• William & Mary's first first-down of the half came at the 4:32 mark of the second quarter.