Saturday's game is scheduled to be posted as a free audio feed at GUHoyas.com, but the link is not there yet and first game efforts have, in the past, been a hit or miss proposition. WGTB-FM is not scheduled to broadcast the game.

If the Georgetown audio fails to launch, the game will also be available through WHIP-AM in Charlotte, link pending on Saturday.

The Davidson College web site will also host a live stats feed; as of Thursday night the page had Georgetown leading in the fourth quarter, 14-6.

If you can't catch the action otherwise, there will be score updates posted on the HoyaTalk football message board during the evening on Saturday.

What's that saying, "nowhere to go but up?"

After the worst season in school history, season five of the Kevin Kelly era begins with both anticipation and concern. The anticipation is that Georgetown can pull itself out of a ten year ditch and begin to carry its weight in the Patriot League. The concern, with 38 losses in Kelly's 43 game tenure, is whether this team will be able to do so.

Major surgery was performed on the 2010 schedule, with Richmond, Old Dominion and Howard (combined record: 22-13) sent away for considerably lighter competition in Davidson, Wagner, and Sacred Heart (combined record: 11-20). An opener with Davidson offers a timely test for Georgetown's reclamation efforts, with the Wildcats facing many of the same challenges that face the Hoyas heading into 2010.

The Wildcats know what it's like to start slow--Davidson was outscored a combined 98-0 in its first two games of 2009. Finishing 3-7 in 2009, the Wildcats will look for stability at quarterback and receiver to improve upon an offense that averaged only 12.5 points per game last season.

More on the Wildcats follows at the Pre-Game Report page, entering our 11th season of pre-game analyses before each game.

The financial divide between Georgetown and other Patriot League schools is the subject of a cover story in this week's edition of the Georgetown Voice.

"The blame can’t be placed solely on this current group of players. In fact, the Hoyas’ pitiful on-field performance can be largely blamed on a single factor: money," writes the paper. "The simple fact is that Georgetown doesn’t allot as much funding to football as its competitors. As the lowest-spending university in the seven-team Patriot League, Georgetown finds itself at a disadvantage in attracting recruits and improving its players once they are on campus."

"The three ways you turn around a program are recruit, recruit, recruit,” said Lafayette coach Frank Tavani. “And that takes money.”

Sophomore defensive back Mose Hogan participated in an internship this summer at Chrysler corporate headquarters, but a company video featuring Hogan is the talk in some automotive circles.

The video discusses design elements of Chrysler vehicles. The web site Autospies.com has a link to the video and notes that the presentation might have inadvertently featured a new and as-yet unrevealed Jeep chassis.

In response, Chrysler officials noted the following: "While we certainly appreciate the interest, the clay model and sketches in the YouTube video represent past design studies, not the future of Jeep design. This and similar videos are targeted toward college students and the youth market in general, to build excitement about the Jeep brand, and to provide a glimpse into some of the processes we go through to create iconic Jeep vehicles."

As local coverage of Georgetown football has dwindled in recent years, the annual preview article of the Washington Post is always appreciated. Wednesday's issue of the Post speaks with captains Nick Parrish and Dan Semler on the resolve of the senior class to do better than in recent years.

"We knew some things had to be changed," Parrish said. "We wanted some questions answered as far as what we were going to be able to expect from the coaching staff. We also wanted him to tell us, as the new leaders of the team, what he wanted from us."

"We could have a week-long summit on what's been wrong," said Parrish. When it comes down to it on Saturday, we haven't done a good enough job of executing."

Also from the Post: three story lines for the 2010 season.

Please review the following articles in advance of this Saturday's game:

• Davidson Wildcats.com
• Georgetown Voice
• GUHoyas.com
• GUHoyas.com (2)
• GUHoyas.com (3)
• The HOYA
• Lehigh Football Nation

USA Today has debuted its pre-season review of the Sagarin college football ratings, sizing up 245 Division I teams. Georgetown enters the season 236th, its lowest ranking to begin a season since 1993 and down from 230th in 2009. Here are the rankings among Patriot League schools:

• 147. Lafayette (was 151 in 2009)
• 148. Holy Cross (153)
• 154. Colgate (156)
• 164. Lehigh (155)
• 214. Bucknell (205)
• 236. Georgetown (230)

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