UCONN (4-4, 1-2 BE) vs. PITTSBURGH (5-3, 3-0 BE) GAME 9 w Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 w 7:30 P.M. RENTSCHlER FIEld (40,000)
ESPN 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) 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
Pittsburgh Schedule/Results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/2 at Utah L, 24-27 (OT) 9/11 NEW HAMPSHIRE W, 38-16 9/23 MIAMI L, 3-31 10/2 FLORIDA INTERNAT’L W, 44-17 10/9 at Notre Dame L, 17-23 10/16 at Syracuse* W, 45-14 10/23 RUTGERS* W, 41-21 10/30 LOUISVILLE* W, 20-3 11/11 at Connecticut* (ESPN) 7:30 PM 11/20 at USF* TBA 11/26 WEST VIRGINIA* (ABC/ESPN) TBA 12/4 at Cincinnati* (ABC/ESPN/2) TBA * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
GAME STORYlINES
w Junior Jordan Todman began the Nov. 2 weekend of play as the fourth-leading rusher in the nation at 136.29 yards per game and is first in the BIG EAST. w Todman is now fifth in career rushing at
UConn with 2,438 yards and is fourth in TDs with 26.
w The Huskies have started six sophomores
on defense in each of their past five contests.
w Senior linebacker Lawrence Wilson is now fourth in school history in tackles with 410..
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 59 of UConn’s last 98 games dating back to the ninth game of the 2002 season. He has a 61-45 (.575) mark through the first 106 games of UConn’s tenure at the FBS level. His overall career mark at UConn stands at 70-69. Thursday’s game against Pittsburgh will be the 140th 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 70 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. PITTSBURGH HEAD COACH DAVE WANNSTEDT Dave Wannstedt is in his sixth year in charge of the Pittsburgh program and led the Panthers to the Sun Bowl after the 2008 season and a win in 2009 in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. He was the head coach of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins from 2000-04 and the head coach of the Chicago Bears from 1993-98, where he became the team’s third all-time winningest coach. He was on the Pittsburgh coaching staff from 1975-78 and also made stops at Oklahoma State (1979-82), USC (1983-85) and Miami (1986-88) before joining the Dallas Cowboys staff from 1989-92. Wannstedt is a 1974 Pittsburgh graduate and was the captain of its 1973 Feista Bowl team.
RAdIO & TV COVERAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Thursday’s game will be televised live nationally by ESPN. Rece Davis is on play-by-play while Craig James and Jesse Palmer is on color. Phil Dean is the producer and Mike Schwab is the director. The game will also be replayed on SNY in its entirity on Sunday, Nov. 14 at 9:00 a.m.. The game will also be rebroadcast in a condensed mode on the “Husky Power Hour” on Friday, Nov 12 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.