Sewanee opens its 123rd football season Saturday against the last team it defeated – 20 games ago.
The Tigers have an entirely new coaching staff since going 0-10 last season and mostly new players since that 31-21 home win in the 2015 season opener against Kenyon College. Kenyon’s Lords won last year’s opener against Sewanee 21-17 in Gambier, Ohio.
They meet again Saturday at noon CDT on Sewanee’s Hardee-McGee Field, the oldest in the South. The Tigers play the next three weeks on the road.
“Our guys are looking forward to hitting someone besides each other. We’re excited about facing someone else,” new head coach Travis Rundle said Thursday.
He added that while the team is still young – with 13 freshmen and 13 sophomores on the two-deep chart – he feels the players, young and old, have picked up well on the new systems. And no one has been talking about the 19-game losing streak or any kind of streak that may lie ahead.