Chasing Perfection: The 2025 GAC Champion and No. 2 ranked Bisons are hunting for the third undefeated regular season in Harding football program history, joining the 2016 and 2023 teams. Harding enters the weekend ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division II Super Region 4, one of only two undefeated teams in the super region. 

Series Tie on the Line: Harding is looking to tie the all-time series against Arkansas Tech (currently Tech leads 31-30) for the very first time. This is remarkable considering Tech won 13 of the first 14 meetings in the rivalry.

A Dominant Run: The Bisons have won 41 of their last 43 games overall and are nearly perfect in conference play, boasting a 35-1 record in their last 36 GAC contests.

Triple Crown of Rushing: Harding leads all of NCAA Division II in three major rushing categories: yards per rush (8.32), rushing touchdowns (60), and rushing yards per game (449.2).

Triple 500 Streak: The Bisons have rushed for 500+ yards in three consecutive games—a program first. They currently have 4,492 rush yards for the season and need 508 in the finale to log their sixth 5,000-yard rushing season.

Elite Red Zone Success: Harding's offense leads D2 with 33 Red Zone rushing touchdowns. Their defense is equally suffocating, leading D2 in Red Zone defense by allowing points on only 4 of 13 opponent trips (31%).

Air Tight Defense: HU's defense leads D2 by allowing a miserly 126.9 pass yards per game and has given up a national-best only four passing touchdowns all season.

The Iron Man Quarterback: QB Cole Keylon will make his 51st career start (46-4 as a starter). The dual-threat QB is the program's career leader in pass efficiency (196.7), yards per pass (12.9), and yards per completion (24.9).

Miller's High-Efficiency Rushing: FB Andrew Miller leads the GAC and ranks 2nd in D2 with an astounding 8.92 yards per carry. He needs just 93 rush yards to move into 6th place on HU's career rushing list.

Jay's Yardage and TD Pursuit: SB Braden Jay needs only 66 rush yards to become just the second Bison (alongside Cole Chancey) to record three 1,000-yard rushing seasons. Jay is also the HU and D2 career leader at 12.7 yards per rush.

Tackles for the Record Book: LB Clark Griffin is the NCAA D2 active leader with 384 career tackles and is the HU NCAA-era leader with 44.0 career tackles for loss (TFL). He needs six tackles to move into 2nd place on Harding's single-season tackles list.