UCONN (1-2, 0-0 BE) vs. BUFFALO (1-2, 0-0 MAC) GAME 4 w Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 w 12:00 P.M. RENTSCHLER FIELD (40,000)
SNYw WTIC-UCONN RADIO NETWORK
UConn Schedule/Results Date Opponent (TV) Score/Time 9/4 at Michigan (ABC) L, 30-10 9/11 TEXAS SOUTHERN (SNY) W, 62-3 9/18 at Temple (SNY) L, 30-16 9/25 BUFFALO (SNY) 12:00 PM 10/2 VANDERBILT SNY) 12:00 PM 10/8 at Rutgers* (ESPN) 7:30 PM 10/23 at Louisville* TBA 10/29 WEST VIRGINIA* (ESPN2) 8:00 PM 11/11 PITTSBURGH* (ESPN) 7:30 PM 11/20 at Syracuse* TBA 11/27 CINCINNATI* TBA 12/4 at USF* (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2) TBA * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
Buffalo Schedule/Results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/2 RHODE ISLAND W, 31-0 9/11 at Baylor L, 34-6 9/18 CENTRAL FLORIDA L, 24-10 9/25 at Connecticut 12:00 PM 10/2 at Bowling Green* 3:30 PM 10/16 at Northern Illinois* 3:30 PM 10/23 TEMPLE* 12:00 PM 10/30 MIAMI (OHIO)* 3:30 PM 11/4 at Ohio* (ESPNU) 7:30 PM 11/12 BALL STATE* (ESPNU) 6:00 PM 11/20 EASTERN MICHIGAN* 2:00 PM 11/26 at Akron* 2:00 PM * Denotes Mid-American Conference game
GAME STORYLINES
w UConn enters this week’s Buffalo game as the winner of five of the seven games it has played dating back to last season. w
Junior Jordan Todman is fourth in the country in rushing and first in the BIG EAST with 149.33 yards per game.
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Head coach Randy Edsall won his 67th game at UConn on September 11 -- the most in school history.
w UConn plays its final two non-conference
games of the regular season with the Buffalo game and next Saturday against Vanderbilt.
THE COACHES CONNECTICUT HEAD COACH RANDY EDSALL UConn Randy Edsall became the all-time winningest coach in UConn football history on Sat., September 11 with his 67th career win at the school. He tackled the challenge of bringing a former NCAA Division I-AA team up to par with the BIG EAST in an 11-year span head on, guiding the Huskies to the 2007 BIG EAST Championship, three bowl games in the past five years with two bowl wins. He is in his 12th season at UConn and has led the Huskies to wins in 56 of the UConn’s last 93 games dating back to the ninth game of the 2002 season. He has a 58-43 (.563) mark through the first 101 games of UConn’s tenure at the FBS level. His overall career mark at UConn stands at 67-67. Saturday’s game against Buffalo will be the 135th of his UConn career -the most of any coach in UConn history. He topped the mark of 121 set by J.O. Christian (1934-49). His 67 career coaching wins at UConn is the most of any coach in school history as he passed J.O. Christian who had 66. Immediately prior to becoming UConn’s head coach in 1998, Edsall served as defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech in 1998 under George O’Leary. Edsall began his coaching career at his alma mater, Syracuse, from 1980-1990, working under Frank Maloney and Dick MacPherson in a variety of capacities. Edsall moved on to Boston College where he coached defensive backs under Tom Coughlin from 1991-93 before following Coughlin to the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, staying on the First Coast through the 1997 season. Edsall is a native of Glen Rock, Pa., and graduated from Susquehannock High School. He was inducted into the York Area Sports Hall of Fame. BUFFALO COACH JEFF QUINN Jeff Quinn is in his first season in charge of the Buffalo program. Quinn had last been the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Cincinnati of the BIG EAST for the past three years. Before coming to the Bearcats, he was the associate head coach and offensive coordinator at Central Michigan. He came to CMU in 2004 after coaching for 15 seasons at Grand Valley State, where the team won back-to-back national championships in 2002 and ‘03. He is a 1984 graduate of Elmhurst College, where he was a two-sport standout in football and wrestling. Quinn has a master’s degree from DePauw.
RADIO & TV COVERAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Saturday’s game will be televised live as the BIG EAST Network Game of the Week and will be seen locally by SportsNet New York (SNY) and throughout the East and Midwest. Mike Gleason is on play-by-play while John Congemi is on color and Eamon McAnaney is on the sidleines. John Kettering is the producer and. The game will also be replayed on SNY in its entirity on Monday, Sept. 27 at 6:00 a.m.. The game will also be rebroadcast in a condensed mode on the “Husky Power Hour” on Sunday, Sept. 26, at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. RADIO COVERAGE For the 19th consecutive season, WTIC 1080-AM in Hartford serves as the flagship station for the UConn Radio Network. WTIC is the state’s only 50,000 watt signal and can be heard in 23 states and parts of Canada. Veteran UConn announcers Joe D’Ambrosio (play-by-play) and Wayne Norman (color commentary) return to call the action with Kevin Nathan on the sidelines and E.B. Davis on production.