Eastern Illinois plays its final home game of the 2024 season as the Panthers host the southern most school in the Big South OVC in Charleston Southern.  

EIU is coming off a road loss at Gardner-Webb while Charleston Southern lost its final home game to UT Martin.

Cooper Willman landed himself in the record books on Saturday as the wide receiver finished with a school record 291 yards receiving on 11 catches with three touchdowns.  More impressive is that he had just two catches for 39 yards at halftime, so did the bulk of his damage in the second half.  The 291 yards is the most in the FCS this season and is the record of the two-year old Big South OVC Football Association. 

Willman is looking to post just the 10th 1,000 yard receiving season in EIU history needing 147 more yards this season.

Pierce Holley passed for more than 300 yards in a game for the sixth straight week finishing with 458 yards on Saturday at Gardner-Webb.  It was the sixth most passing yards in a game by a Panthers quarterback as Holley has now passed for 2,828 yards this season.  He is on the verge of becoming just the fourth quarterback in program history to pass for 3,000 yards in a season joining Sean Payton, Tony Romo and Jimmy Garoppolo who combined six times among those three.  

Game time is at noon on Sunday. Hear all the action - starting with an 11:30 am pregame - on WHOW and all its digital platforms.