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Bronx, N.Y. - The Fordham University Rams continue their 2019 season, Fordham's 119th varsity season, by traveling to Muncie, Indiana, to face the Ball State University Cardinals in Scheumann Stadium on Saturday, September 7, at 2:00 p.m.
 
The game will be streamed live on ESPN3 with Jim Barbar (p-b-p) and Mark Hermann (color) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and wfuvsports.org with Emmanuel Berbari (p-b-p), Devin Clementi (color) and Chris Boccia (sidelines) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters the game off a 26-23 season-opening loss to Central Connecticut State last Saturday on Jack Coffey Field while Ball State is also 0-1 on the season after opening the year with a 34-24 loss at Indiana last week.
 
This will be the first meeting between Fordham and Ball State on the gridiron. It will be Fordham's fifth meeting with a team currently in the MAC but the other four games occurred before the respective teams joined the MAC (Akron in 1925, and Buffalo in 1930, 1993 and 1995).
 
A few notes on the game:
 
• Sophomore quarterback Tim DeMorat was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week following the Central Connecticut game after completing 17 of 27 passes for 194 yards and three scores.
 
• In the season-opening loss to Central Connecticut, Fordham saw three receivers catch their first collegiate pass, led by junior wide out Hamze El-Zayat, who led the team with eight catches for 70 yards with two touchdowns.
 
• Also recording their first collegiate grabs were freshman Dequece Carter, who had three receptions for 39 yards with a score, and sophomore Fotis Kokosioulis, a transfer from Northern Illinois, who grabbed two passes for 27 yards.
 
• The 2019 Fordham Rams are a young squad, with just eight seniors on the roster.
 
• Only two of those seniors started the first game of the year (captains Joe Ferraro and Jesse Bramble).
 
• The Fordham captains for 2019 are senior defensive backs Jesse Bramble and James Biggs-Frazier, and senior wide receiver Joe Ferraro.
  
• No New York area football team has won more games since 2012 than Fordham, who has amassed 52 victories over that stretch. The closest collegiate competitors are Stony Brook (48), Sacred Heart (43) and Rutgers (35), while the NFL's Giants have 47 wins over the past six years and the Jets have 42.