July 30 Football Fun Fact:

Georgia State will play 11 opponents during its Inaugural Season.

Let's take a quick look at the fourth opponent on Saturday, Sept. 25, at 1:00 p.m., at Campbell in Buies Creek, N.C.

This will be Georgia State's first-ever road trip for football. Campbell University is located 30 miles south of Raleigh and 28 miles north of Fayetteville, N.C. The most direct route from Atlanta is out I-20 east, to I-95 north, and then a short drive back west off I-95 (Exit 73). It is just a little over 400 miles and a roughly 6 1/2-hour trip.

Campbell was a former conference member with GSU in the days of the TAAC/Atlantic Sun as they played twice a year in basketball and in every other sport through 2004-05, the Panthers last year in that league.

Campbell is in the NCAA FCS Division and plays in the Pioneer League as a non-scholarship program. This is their third year with football. The school has 4,700 students on its main campus and almost 7,000 on all its campuses. They play at 5,000-seat Ed Gore Field with an artificial surface field, but drew 5,845 for its inaugural game. They announced their program in 2006, practiced with a fall game in 2007, and have competed during the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

The Fighting Camels are coached by Dale Steele and posted a 3-8 season in 2009, but by being so new and building, they return 50 lettermen and 21 starters to give them stability now. Coach Steele went through what Coach Curry has at GSU in building a football program from scratch. A former South Carolina player, Steele coached at Tulane, Kansas State, East Carolina, Elon and ETSU, as well as being a North Carolina high school head coach.

Campbell plays Old Dominion and Davidson at home before GSU to give them three consecutive home opponents.

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