UCONN (0-0, 0-0 BE) at MICHIGAN (0-0, 0-0 BT) GAME 1 w Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010 w 3:30 P.M. MICHIGAN STADIUM (109,901)
ABC w WTIC-UCONN RADIO NETWORK
UConn Schedule/Results Date Opponent (TV) Score/Time 9/4 at Michigan (ABC) 3:30 PM 9/11 TEXAS SOUTHERN (SNY) 12:00 PM 9/18 at Temple (SNY) 12:00 PM 9/25 BUFFALO TBA 10/2 VANDERBILT TBA 10/8 at Rutgers* 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
Michigan Schedule/Results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/4 UCONN (ABC) 3:30 PM 9/11 at Notre Dame (NBC) 3:30 PM 9/18 UMASS (BT Net.) 12:00 PM 9/25 BOWLING GREEN TBA 10/2 at Indiana* TBA 10/9 MICHIGAN STATE* TBA 10/16 IOWA* (ABC) 3:30 PM 10/30 at Penn State* (ABC/ESPN) 8:00 PM 11/6 ILLINOIS* TBA 11/13 at Purdue* TBA 11/20 WISCONSIN* TBA 11/27 at Ohio State* TBA * Denotes BIG TEN Conference game
GAME STORYLINES
w UConn begins its 112th season of intercollegiate football and its ninth in the FBS and seventh in the BIG EAST. w UConn rides a four-game winning streak
into the season dating back to 2009 with wins over Notre Dame, Syracuse, USF and South Carolina.
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It is anticipated that the UConn vs. Michigan game will draw the largest crowd in the history of college football, which currently stands at 112,118.
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UConn is 2-0 vs. the Big Ten with wins over Indiana in 2003 and ‘06.
THE COACHES CONNECTICUT HEAD COACH RANDY EDSALL UConn Randy Edsall has tackled the challenge of bringing a former NCAA Division I-AA team up to par with the BIG EAST in a 10-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 beginning his 12th season at UConn and has led the Huskies to wins in 55 of the UConn’s last 90 games dating back to the ninth game of the 2002 season. He has a 57-41 (.582) mark through the first 98 games of UConn’s tenure at the FBS level. His overall career mark at UConn stands at 66-65. Saturday’s game against Michigan will be the 132nd 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 66 career coaching wins at UConn is tied as the most in school history along with Christian. 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. MICHIGAN HEAD COACH RICH RODRIGUEZ Rich Rodriguez is entering his third season in charge of the Michigan program and is just the school’s 11th head coach since 1901. Prior to coming to Michigan, he was the head coach at West Virginia for seven years -- his alma mater. He had a 60-28 record at WVU and led the school to four BIG EAST titles and six consecutive bowl games. Before becoming the coach at WVU, he was the offensive coordinator and associate head coach at Clemson in 1999 and 2000. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Tulane the two years before that. He was the head coach at Salem in 1988 and at Glenville State from 1990-96. Rodriguez was a three-year letterwinner at WVU as a defensive back. M
RADIO & TV COVERAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Saturday’s game will be televised live by ABC Sports and is one of three games in the time spot joined by Kentucky at Louisville and UCLA at Kansas State. Sean McDonough is on play-by-play while Matt Millen is on color and Heather Cox is on sidelines. Bo Garrett is the producer and Mike Roag is the director. 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. The UConn pregame show begins 90 minutes prior to kickoff, while home games, the UConn Tailgate Show will air two and a half hours prior to the game with Arnold Dean.