UCONN (3-3, 0-1 BE) vs. LOUISVILLE (3-3, 0-1 BE) GAME 7 w Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 w 3:30P.M. PAPA JOhN’S CArdINAL StAdIUM (56,000)
ESPNU w 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) W, 45-21 10/2 VANDERBILT (SNY) W, 40-21 10/8 at Rutgers* (ESPN) L, 27-24 10/23 at Louisville* (ESPNU) 3:30 PM 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
Louisville Schedule/results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/4 KENTUCKY L, 23-16 9/11 EASTERN KENTUCKY W, 23-13 9/18 at Oregon State L, 35-28 10/2 at Arkansas State W, 34-24 10/9 MEMPHIS W, 56-0 10/15 CINCINNATI* L, 35-27 10/23 CONNECTICUT*(ESPNU) 3:30 PM 10/30 at Pittsburgh* TBA 11/6 at Syracuse* (BEN) TBA 11/13 USF* TBA 11/20 WEST VIRGINIA* TBA 11/26 at Rutgers*(ESPN/U/ABC) TBA * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
GAME StOrYLINES
w Junior Jordan Todman is the third-leading rusher in the nation at 152.20 yards per game and also leads the BIG EAST. w The UConn-Louisville series is tied at 3-3
with the Cardinals winning the first three games and the Huskies taking the next three.
w Todman is now sixth in career rushing at
UConn with 2,245 yards and is tied for fifth in TDs with 25.
w The Huskies have started six sophomores
on defense in each of their past three contests.
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 58 of UConn’s last 96 games dating back to the ninth game of the 2002 season. He has a 60-44 (.577) mark through the first 104 games of UConn’s tenure at the FBS level. His overall career mark at UConn stands at 69-68. Saturdays’s game against Louisville will be the 138th 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 69 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. LOUISVILLE COACH CHARLIE STRONG Charlie Strong is in his first season as the head coach at Louisville and in his first season as a collegiate head coach. Prior to taking over the Louisville position, he was an assistant coach at Florida from 2003-09. He served as the defensive coordinator for the Gators since 2003 and was the associate head coach since 2005. Strong was also an assistant coach on the Gator staff from 1988-89 and 1991-94. Strong also had assistant coaching stints at South Carolina (1999-2002), Notre Dame (1995-98), Mississippi (1990) and Southern Illinois (1986-87). He is a 1983 graduate of Central Arkansas, where he was a three-time all-conference selection in football and two-time pick in track and field.
rAdIO & tV COVErAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Saturday’s game will be televised live nationally by ESPNU. Pam Ward is on play-by-play while Danny Kanell is on color. Tom Kulis is the producer and Scott Burke is the director. The game will also be replayed on SNY in its entirity on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 2:00 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m.. The game will also be rebroadcast in a condensed mode on the “Husky Power Hour” on Sunday, Oct. 24 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.