UCONN (6-4, 3-2 BE) vs. CINCINNATI (4-6, 2-3 BE) GAME 11 w Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 w 12:00 P.M. RENTSCHLER FIELD (40,000)
SNY w WTIC-UCONN RADIO NETWORK
UConn Schedule/Results Date Opponent (TV) Score/Time 9/4 at Michigan (ABC) L, 10-30 9/11 TEXAS SOUTHERN (SNY) W, 62-3 9/18 at Temple (SNY) L, 16-30 9/25 BUFFALO (SNY) W, 45-21 10/2 VANDERBILT (SNY) W, 40-21 10/8 at Rutgers* (ESPN) L, 24-27 10/23 at Louisville* (ESPNU) L, 0-26 10/29 WEST VIRGINIA* (ESPN2) W, 16-13 11/11 PITTSBURGH* (ESPN) W, 30-28 11/20 at Syracuse* (ESPNU) W, 23-6 11/27 CINCINNATI* (SNY) 12:00 PM 12/4 at USF* (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2) TBA * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
Cincinnati Schedule/Results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/4 at Fresno State L, 14-28 9/11 INDIANA STATE W, 40-7 9/16 at North Carolina State L, 19-30 9/25 OKLAHOMA L, 29-31 10/9 MIAMI (OH) W, 45-3 10/15 at Louisville* W, 35-27 10/22 USF* L, 30-38 10/30 SYRACUSE* L, 7-31 11/13 at West Virginia* L, 10-37 11/20 RUTGERS* W, 69-38 11/27 at Connecticut*(SNY) 12:00 PM 12/4 PITTSBURGH*(ABC/ESPN/2) TBA * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
GAME STORYLINES
w Junior Jordan Todman is the secondleading rusher in the nation at 145.11 yards per game and is first in the BIG EAST. w
Todman was recently named one of 15 “Player to Watch” for the Walter Camp Football Foundation National Player of the Year.
w UConn is a perfect 5-0 at home this sea-
son entering the final home game of the year.
w With its win over Syracuse last Saturday,
UConn is now bowl eligible for the fourthconsecutive season.
THE COACHES CONNECTICUT HEAD COACH RANDY EDSALL UConn head coach 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 61 of UConn’s last 100 games dating back to the ninth game of the 2002 season. He has a 63-45 (.583) mark through the first 108 games of UConn’s tenure at the FBS level. His overall career mark at UConn stands at 72-69. Saturday’s game against Cincinnati will be the 142nd 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 72 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. CINCINNATI HEAD COACH BUTCH JONES Butch Jones is in his first year as the head coach at Cincinnati. Prior to taking over the Bearcat program, he was the head coach at Central Michigan from 2007-09. He led Central Michigan to a 27-13 record during his tenure with three bowl appearances and a pair of Mid-American Conference championships. He was an assistant coach at West Virginia from 2005-06 and on the Central Michigan staff from 1998-2004. Jones was on the Ferris State staff from 1995-97 and was a graduate assistant at Rutgers from 1990-92. Jones graduated from Ferris State in 1990 and played two years of football there.
RADIO & TV COVERAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Saturday’s game will be televised by the BIG EAST Network and will be seen locally on SNY. The game will also be around the East Coast and Midwest on local affiliates. Mike Gleason is on play-by-play while John Congemi is on color. John Kettering is the producer. The game will also be replayed on SNY in its entirity on Sunday, Nov. 28 at 10:00 a.m.. The game will also be rebroadcast in a condensed mode on the “Husky Power Hour” on Sunday, Nov. 28 at 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 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.