Correction: There have been three stretches of five straight winning seasons in SOU history: 1960-65, 1987-91 and 1999-2003. This story originally stated there were two.

Game 11 – Southern Oregon (5-5, 5-4) vs. #6 Montana Tech (8-1, 8-1)
12 p.m. Saturday | Raider Stadium | Ashland, Ore.
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ASHLAND – Southern Oregon's 2016 won't end in a playoff, but the Raiders can make a point about where they stand in the national pecking order when the Frontier Conference champions come to town for the regular-season finale.

The Raiders (5-5 overall, 5-4 Frontier) can take further delight in playing spoiler against sixth-ranked Montana Tech (8-1, 8-1), which would secure the outright conference title with a victory. The Diggers – who have won eight straight by an average of 28.5 points since a season-opening loss at Carroll – are one game up on No. 9 Eastern Oregon and own the tiebreaker for the Frontier's automatic postseason bid if it comes to that, but they also need a win to avoid dropping in the rankings and being sent on the road for the first round of the NAIA Championship Series.

SOU will recognize 18 seniors before the Homecoming affair, which is scheduled for a noon kickoff Saturday. The Raiders stopped a three-game losing streak last week against Montana State-Northern, 56-14, and have a shot at their fifth straight winning season, a feat that has been accomplished three other times in team history – from 1960-65, 1987-91 and 1999-2003.

Series History:
– In last year's meeting, the then-No. 1 Raiders lost to No. 9 Montana Tech 21-17 on Nov. 7 in Ashland, the penultimate game of the regular season. The setback dropped the Raiders to No. 8 in the rankings, costing them homefield advantage in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the playoffs. Tech, led by backup quarterback (and current starting tight end) Andrew Loudenback, scored the last 14 points of the game and went ahead on Loudenback's 10-yard touchdown pass to Sean Sullivan with 1:44 remaining.
– SOU leads the all-time series, 5-4. Five of those games have been decided by five points or less, and two have gone to overtime – making Tech the only team SOU has played multiple overtime games against.
– The Raiders are 2-2 against the Diggers in Ashland. Their 46-28 triumph on Nov. 10, 2012 – the final game of the regular season – made the teams co-conference champions in SOU's first year in the Frontier. It also locked up SOU's first postseason berth in 10 years.
– The Raiders are 4-2 against Tech in Frontier play.

NAIA Top 25: After dropping out of the NAIA Top 25 completely last week and ending a 35-poll run, this week SOU is the fourth of five teams listed in the "receiving votes" category. Eastern Oregon, up two spots to No. 9, is in position to earn its first NAIA Championship Series berth as an at-large team and will look to wrap it up in its regular-season finale at Carroll. Montana Western also climbed up two spots to No. 22, but the Bulldogs will likely be left out of the playoff picture: In most years, teams needs to be in the 14-15 range to snag an at-large bid.

Senior Moments: Of the 18 seniors wearing Raider uniforms for the last time, 12 of them were a part of SOU's first national championship team: Kyle Alexander, Mylz Blake, Colin Davis, Kalan Hoedl, Tylor King, Sean McShane, Jacob Proul, Matt Retzlaff, Julius Rucker, Jack Singler, Nathan Torres-Walker and Sean Tow. In four years, that class has helped the Raiders win 36 games with records of 7-1 in the postseason and 16-4 at home.

Home History: SOU is 92-57 at Raider Stadium all-time – including marks of 25-4 under Craig Howard, 18-4 in Frontier contests and 12-3 against the NAIA Top 25. In conference play, 10 of the Raiders' last 12 games overall against top-25 teams have been decided by seven points or less.

Briefly:
– The Raider defense had its best statistical outing of the year against MSU-Northern. With nine sacks, the most for SOU in the last decade, the Raiders pushed the Lights to negative-17 rushing yards, the third-lowest number for an opponent in SOU history. They allowed 105 total yards and forced five turnovers. In their last three games, they've recorded six interceptions; in their first seven, they had two. And in their last five games, they've recorded 21 sacks; in their first four, they had five.
– Last week, Craig Howard became the third coach in SOU history to win 50 games. He's tied with Jeff Olson for second on SOU's wins list behind Al Akins, who went 71-62-3 from 1955-69.
– One last check-in on Matt Retzlaff: The senior receiver's SOU-record totals are up to 237 career receptions, 3,365 receiving yards and 39 receiving touchdowns. He also ranks second on the SOU career list with 544 punt-return yards and third with 46 total TDs. With 40 more receiving yards, he'd become the eighth Raider the reach the 1,000-yard mark in a season. He's hit the 100-yard mark in five of eight games this year and 14 times during his career.
– With four catches for 130 yards and two TDs against MSU-Northern, Jordan Suell became the sixth Raider with a 100-plus-yard receiving game of the season.
– Rey Vega was voted the Frontier's special teams player of the week for his 93-yard kickoff return TD in the fourth quarter last Saturday. It matched the seventh-longest kickoff return TD in Raider history.
– Sean Tow only rushed three times for 16 yards against the Lights, but with another TD he's now scored in nine of the Raiders' 10 games this year and 13 of his last 14 regular-season game dating back to last year. Going into his final afternoon, he owns 2,093 career rushing yards, 30 rushing TDs (fourth in SOU history) and 33 total TDs.
– Louis DesPrez's average of 41.9 yards per punt ranks fifth in the NAIA. Since 2011, the Raiders have featured three different punters with top-five punting averages nationally.
– Julius Rucker, an All-American in 2015, goes into his final game with 276 tackles. With nine more, he'd break into the top-five on SOU's career list.
– Sage DeLong has registered a sack in each of SOU's last three games. He and Kalan Hoedl are tied for team-high honors with four on the season.
– In SOU's last four games, Tyson Cooper has amassed 43 tackles, four tackles for losses, 3 ½ sacks and two interceptions.

About Montana Tech:
– Coming off a 1-9 season in 2014, the Diggers made a remarkable turnaround to go 9-1 in the Frontier last year and capture a conference title. As the No. 5 overall seed in the playoffs, they defeated 18th-ranked Dickinson State (N.D.) in the first round, 44-10, before losing at No. 4 Saint Francis (Ind.) in the second, 42-20. Since NAIA Divisions I and II merged for football in 1997, they're 3-2 in first-round games and 0-3 in the second.
– On the NAIA leaderboard, they rank fourth in sacks per game (3.6), fifth in rushing defense (103.3), seventh in scoring (41.9) and opponents' scoring (17.2), and 11th in total offense (480.6).
– Senior running back Nolan Saraceni is fourth in the nation in rushing yards per game (138). In Tech's last five games he's averaged 174.8 yards with 13 rushing TDs. In his four-year career he's totaled 3,338 rushing yards and 38 rushing TDs, and he was named the Frontier's offensive player of the year in 2015.
– Quarterback Quinn McQueary, who transferred from Montana State prior to the 2014 season, is completing 70 percent of his passes with 22 TDs compared to six interceptions. He owns the NAIA's sixth-best passing-efficiency rating.
– Senior safety Gunnar Kayser ranks fourth in the NAIA with six interceptions.
– In their lone loss, 27-24 at Carroll in the season-opener, the Diggers blew a 24-10 fourth-quarter lead, giving up 10 points in the final 2:12. Colter Hamel connected on the game-winning 45-yard field goal as time expired.