The Game
«  Johns Hopkins (2-0, 1-0 Centennial) hits the road for the second time in 2021 as the Blue Jays head to Juniata (0-2, 0-1).  Kickoff at Knox Stadium is set for 2 pm.

A Look Back
«  Johns Hopkins improved to 2-0 on the year with a 49-21 win over Ursinus at Homewood Field last Saturday.
«  Juniata slipped to 0-2 on the year as the Eagles went on the road and fell at McDaniel, 27-9.

The Facts
«  This is the 136th season of Johns Hopkins football.  JHU first fielded a team in 1882.
«  Johns Hopkins enters this week's game with an all-time record of 565-487-58 (.535).
«  Since the start of the 2010 season, the Blue Jays are 102-17 (.857) overall and 83-8 (.912) in the Centennial Conference.
«  Overall, JHU owns 14 Centennial Conference titles (all won since 2002) and has qualified for the NCAA Playoffs 10 times (all since 2005).

Poll Position
«  Johns Hopkins was listed as receiving votes in the D3football.com preseason poll, but jumped to number 25 in the first in-season poll (Sept. 5) and moved to number 21 this week.
«  Since the D3football.com Poll debuted in 2003, this week's #21 ranking marks the 113th time Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 25.
«  The AFCA Poll, which the Johns Hopkins office of Athletic Communications has used to reference JHU's official ranking at the time of a game since that poll debuted in 1999, will be issued for the first time during the 2021 season later in September.

Johns Hopkins' Week-by-Week National Rankings

Road Warriors
«  This week's game at Juniata kicks off a stretch that will see the Blue Jays play two straight and four of their next five games on the road.
« After this week, JHU will play at Moravian (Sept. 25), host F&M (Oct. 2), play at Muhlenberg (Oct. 15) and then at Gettysburg (Oct. 23).  The Blue Jay bye week hits on Oct. 9.
« Breaking it down, between September 12 and October 30, the Blue Jays will play at home just once (Oct. 2 vs. F&M).

Scoring Surge
« Johns Hopkins has scored 102 points in its first two games of the 2021 season.  That's the most points JHU has scored in the first two games of a season since 2015, when the Blue Jays scored 111 through the first two.
« Dating back to the 2019 season, JHU has scored at least 42 points in five straight games, 49 or more in three straight and 50 or more in three of the last five.
« Johns Hopkins currently ranks 10th in the nation in scoring offense.

Among the Leaders
« The high-scoring Johns Hopkins offense ranks among the national leaders in a number statistical categories.  A quick look at where the Blue Jays rank nationally in several key offensive statistics:

Centennial Openers
«  Since the formation of the Centennial Conference for football in 1983, and including last week's 49-21 win over Ursinus, Johns Hopkins is 26-12 in its 38 league-opening games.
« Prior to losses in its 2018 and 2019 CC openers (2 losses by a total of 3 points), the Blue Jays had won 10 consecutive league openers.
«  Johns Hopkins' 26 CC-opening wins are the most in league history.

On This Date
«  This week's game against Juniata will be just the fifth the Blue Jays have ever played on September 18.
«  JHU first played a game on this date in 1982, when the Jays fell to Dickinson, 14-10.  Wins have since followed in 2004 (24-14 vs. Carnegie Mellon), 2009 (41-23 vs. Gettysburg) and 2010 (29-21 vs. Gettysburg).

Sweet September
«  Dating back to 2010, Johns Hopkins is now 39-4 in the month of September after last week's win over Ursinus.
«  Also dating back to 2010, the Blue Jays are 19-1 at home and 20-3 on the road in the month of September.

In the Record Book
«  The 596 yards of total offense and 53 points the Blue Jays scored at Stevenson on September 4th are both the second-best totals in school history in a season opener.
« The 506 passing yards for the Blue Jays at SU are the third-highest single-game total in school history.

I'm Honored - Again
«  Junior quarterback Ryan Stevens was named the Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Week and to the D3football.com Team of the Week after his performance in the season-opening win at Stevenson.  For good measure, he repeated both of those honors after leading the Blue Jays past Ursinus in week two.
« In last week's win over the Bears, he was 22-of-25 (.880) for 364 yards and six touchdowns against one interception.  The six TD passes are a career high and the most for a JHU quarterback since Jon Germano had six against Ursinus in 2016.

It's All Academic - Part I
«  Johns Hopkins led Division III and tied Stanford for the national lead among all NCAA schools with four CoSIDA Academic All-America selections in 2020-21 (AAA teams were selected with career statistics the primary criteria instead of season statistics in 2020-21 due to COVID-19 limiting or eliminating some teams' seasons).]
« Ryan Hubley (WR) and Macauley Kilbane (DB) were named First Team CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, while Ross Andersson (DB) and Jacob Fetterolf (OL) were second team selections.
«  The four Academic All-America selections are the most in school history, topping the three AAAs Johns Hopkins produced in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
«  The four AAA selections for the football team were part of a haul of 18 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans Johns Hopkins produced across all of its athletic programs in 2020-21 ... the 18 are a school record for one year (previous record was 13 in 2013-14).

Close Calls
«  Since the start of the 2013 season, Johns Hopkins has lost a total of 11 games.  Those 11 losses have come by a total of 56 points with setbacks by five, three, five, seven, four, three, two, eight, one, three and 15 points.  Translation, 10 of Johns Hopkins' 11 losses since the start of the 2013 season have come by a touchdown or less.  The 31-16 loss to Muhlenberg (Nov. 2, 2019) marked the first time JHU had lost a regular season game by more than nine points in more than 10 years (2009 season opener at Delaware Valley).

On a Roll
«  Johns Hopkins is 90-6 in its last 96 regular season games dating back to late in the 2010 season.
«  The Blue Jays are 98-14 in their last 112 games overall since late in the 2010 season.
«  Dating back farther, Johns Hopkins is 165-42 (.797) since the start of the 2002 season, 171-45 (.792) since the start of the 2001 season and 176-50 (.779) since the start of the 2000 season.

At Home at Homewood
«  Since the start of the 2010 season, the Blue Jays are 54-7 (.885) at Homewood Field.
«  Johns Hopkins had won 12 consecutive games at Homewood Field before the loss on September 14, 2019 against Susquehanna.  This is tied for the longest home winning streak in school history.  JHU previously won 12 straight games at home from 2014-15.

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