FERRUM — Last weekend, the Ferrum College football team made its debut as an NCAA Division II program.

Saturday will mark another first in Ferrum football history — the Panthers’ first game against VMI.

The Panthers will visit FCS member VMI at 1:30 p.m. in a game that will air on ESPN Plus.

“Playing a Division I team’s a bigger challenge, so everybody’s excited,” Ferrum quarterback Eli Foutz said this week.

“The locker room’s jumping around,” Ferrum offensive guard/center Trey Reiter said. “Yesterday before practice everybody was going crazy.”

Last weekend VMI was the team stepping up in weight class. FBS member Navy squashed the visiting Keydets 52-7.

Now VMI will be the team that is expected to win.

“We’re not favored in many games,” VMI coach Danny Rocco said on a video conferen

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