THIS WEEK IN PEACOCK FOOTBALL... The Peacocks will welcome the #1 Mavericks of Minnesota State University, Mankato to Fayette and Harms-Eischeid Stadium on Saturday for UIU's Senior Day. The game will mark the final regular season contest for both teams. Minnesota State earned the NSIC South Division title last week and enters the game as one of four unbeaten teams in NCAA Division II. Upper Iowa has entered rare air with 6 wins this season marking just the 16th time reaching that mark in the program's 119-year football history. The Peacocks, who have only had 4 winning seasons since 1966's 8-2 campaign, are guaranteed of just their 35th winning season thanks to a 24-21 victory at Wayne State last week. The UIU football team will recognize 18 seniors prior to kickoff.

THE SERIES... The Mavericks have won all seven meetings in the series which began in 2004 and 2005 when Upper Iowa was moving up to NCAA Division II and then restarted when Minnesota State gained membership in the Northern Sun Conference prior to the 2008 season.

RUNNING ON "ETHAN"-OL... Senior Ethan Douglas has fueled the Peacock defense over the last four years and will take the field one final time in a Peacock uniform today. Douglas has doling out big hits for four years from his linebacker position with 374 tackles including 205 solo stops and 33.5 tackles for loss. This season, the Brodhead, Wis. product has a team-high 97 tackles (46th NCAA, 3rd NSIC) with 54 coming on his own (37th NCAA, 2nd NSIC) and 13 behind the line of scrimmage (61st NCAA, 4th NSIC).

"CHRIS" CROSSING DEFENDERS... Junior running back Chris Smith is now just 3 yards shy of the all-time career rushing yardage mark of 3,198 set by T.C. Hicks (2004-07). The Brown Deer, Wis. native broke the single-season record for rushing yards at Upper Iowa two weeks ago and currently stands at 1,672 yards in 2013, which ranks as the fifth highest total in the country and second in the NSIC. Smith's average per game of 167.2 on the ground also ranks fifth in the nation and second in the conference, while he is also ranked in rushing touchdowns with 16 (11th NCAA, 2nd NSIC), all-purpose yards/game with 175.7 (15th NCAA, 2nd NSIC), scoring/game with 9.6 (18th NCAA, 2nd NSIC). Prior to this season, the NSIC record for rushing yards in a season was held by Rayon Simmons of Winona State, who ran for 1,586 yards in 2012. Both Smith and Tyler Tonderum of Southwest Minnesota State University have surpassed that mark. Tonderum has rushed for 1,864 yards. Earlier this week, Smith was named to the regional ballot for NCAA Division II's Harlon Hill Award and earned Capital One Academic All-District 3 honors.

Yards Rushing/Career at UIU
	Yards	Years
T.C. Hicks	3198	2004-07
Chris Smith	3196	2011-P
Gary Marshall	2731	1972-75
Billy Proctor	2365	1990-93
Mike Hatten	2352	1999-00
Pat Maddock	2349	1978-80
Dave Sanger	2178	1966-69
Warren Pierce	2126	1964-66
Bob Reinert	2050	1961-64