JSU releases 2015 football schedule

Jacksonville state university released their 2015 football schedule Monday. Five home games and trips to Auburn and Chattanooga highlight the schedule.  The reigning Ohio Valley Conference Champion Gamecocks, who finished the 2014 season ranked No. 9 in both polls, will open the season at Chattanooga on Sept. 5 before taking on Auburn in Auburn for the first time a week later on Sept. 12. JSU will conclude its non-conference schedule and open its home schedule on Sept. 19 against Furman at 1 p.m.  Week two will be an historic one for the Gamecocks with their trip to the Plains to face Auburn for the first time. It will be their seventh game against a member of the SEC but the first against one of the state of Alabama's two SEC programs.