Welcome to Game Day 2009

Welcome to Shotwell Stadium and the first of hopefully many Game Days for the 2009 ACU Wildcats.  Lance Fleming asked me to blog news and updates to you while he's busy running the pressbox for the ACU vs. Northwest Missouri State game tonight.  It's one of the very few games on tap this Thursday night in August for college football junkies and fans of both of these NCAA Division II powerhouses, many of whom will be following the matchup on national and regional TV, thanks to CBS College Sports.  The game also is being telecast regionally by Fox Sports Southwest and a couple of its affiliates in Texas and the Midwest, plus Abilene's KRBC-TV (NBC).  Bottom line: This is the early-season showcase game for NCAA Division II.  It's also a rematch of two teams that battled last Deceember in the 2008 national quarterfinals, when Northwest spoiled ACU's season with a 45-36 win, sending the Wildcats home with an 11-1 record and a bad taste in their mouths for what might have been.