Topic: Parthenon: Herd football opens home schedule against old SOCON foe

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By ADAM ROGERS
Assistant Sports Editor

After a 69-34 blowout loss to No. 11 West Virginia in the 2012 season opener, Marshall football returns home Saturday to rekindle an old Southern Conference rivalry with Western Carolina Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Thundering Herd and Catamounts last met in 1996 in the very stadium the two will do battle in this weekend.

Marshall defeated Western Carolina in their last meeting 56-21 to improve the Herd to 7-0 that season, and would later go on to win its second Division I-AA national championship after a 15-0 year.

The Catamounts are still members of the SOCON (a Football Championship Subdivision conference) and Head Coach Doc Holliday said he and his team know what can happen if you take an FCS team lightly after week one of the season.

Link: http://www.marshallparthenon.com/herd-football-opens-home-schedule-against-old-socon-foe-1.2758467#.UEnEuSLLm4M