Tusculum's Bo Cordell named SAC Offensive Player of the Week

ROCK HILL, S.C. --- Tusculum College quarterback Bo Cordell has been named the South Atlantic Conference Football Offensive Player of the Week announced league officials Monday.  Cordell earns this honor for the fourth time this season and fifth in his career.

The 6-1, 195-pound sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio, passed for 408 yards and school and SAC single-game record seven touchdowns in the Pioneers’ 51-35 win over Brevard College.  The Indian Hill High School graduate went 38-for-55 with no interceptions and set a TC record for five TD tosses in the first half alone.

Cordell has passed for over 400 passing yards in eight consecutive games this season, which is a new league record and one of the longest runs in NCAA Division II history.

The 2009 SAC Offensive Freshman of the Year has passed for 32 touchdowns this year, which are the second most in school history and tied for fourth-best by a SAC quarterback.  His 321 completions this season are a new TC single-season record and second most in the league record book.  The 2010 Harlon Hill Trophy candidate is averaging 416.4 passing yards per game, which is the best in the nation for all NCAA divisions (FBS, FCS, II, III).

Cordell has tallied 55 career TD passes, which are already second most in school history.  In Saturday's win, he also recorded his 7,000th career passing yard, becoming only the second TC signal caller in school history to achieve that milestone (7,206).

Tusculum (5-4, 1-4 SAC) will travel to Salisbury, N.C. this Saturday to face league co-leader Catawba College (6-2, 4-1 SAC) for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff at Shuford Stadium.