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Delaware Faces Big Challenge Saturday At Richmond

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The University of Delaware will play its final road game of the season on Saturday as they visit #8 Richmond.

The Blue Hens are 4-5 (2-4 in the CAA) after picking up probably their most impressive win of the season last weekend. Delaware went up to Albany and beat the Great Danes, 33-17. The Blue hens forced five turnovers in the win. Especially impressive when you consider Albany was second in all of FCS in turnover margin (+17) coming in.

"We put together a very complete game," Delaware interim head coach Dennis Dottin-Carter tells KYW Newsradio. "Offensively, defensively and special teams-wise. We played a very complimentary game. Special teams (played) lights out. We want to be a hard working, blue collar football team. We want to be tough, we want to work our work, we want to focus on the moment, focus on the task at hand and give everything that we've got in doing that."

Listen to the entire interview with Delaware's Dennis Dottin-Carter:

 

The Blue Hens are 2-1 since Dottin-Carter took over as interim head coach after Dave Brock was fired six games into the season. He is impressed with how the team has continued to fight during a difficult campaign.

"It says that this group of young men, this family here, they are the right people," Dottin-Carter says. "When we recruited most of these guys which we have, we went in with the mindset that we wanted to bring in, not only the best talent, but the right players. We certainly passed up on some talented football players because we didn't feel like they were the right people for the program. So I think it speaks volumes for the guys in that locker room, who they are, their character, their resiliency, their desire to win, their love of the game and how well they've conducted themselves and how hard they've worked in spite of everything."

The Blue Hens will face a Richmond team on Saturday that is ranked as high as #8 in the polls. The Spiders are 7-2 and coming off a 47-43 loss to a James Madison team that is now ranked as high as #5 in FCS.

"They are very, very talented," Dottin-Carter says. "They have a lot of depth on both sides of the football."

Richmond averages 36.4 points a game this season.

Saturday's game will kick-off at 3:30pm.

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