UCONN (3-2, 0-0 BE) vs. RUTGERS (2-2, 0-0 BE) GAME 6 w Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 w 7:30P.M. RUTGERS STADIUM (52,454)
ESPN 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) 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
Rutgers Schedule/Results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/2 NORFOLK STATE W, 31-0 9/11 at Florida Inter. (SNY) W, 19-14 9/25 N. CAROLINA (ESPNU) L, 17-13 10/2 TULANE L, 17-14 10/8 CONNECTICUT* (ESPN) 7:30 PM 10/16 ARMY (M’LANDS) TBA 10/23 at Pittsburgh* TBA 11/3 at USF* (ESPN2) 7:00 PM 11/13 SYRACUSE* TBA 11/20 at Cincinnati* TBA 11/26 LOUISVILLE* (ESPN/2/ABC) TBA 12/4 at West Virginia* (ESPN/ABC) TBA * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
GAME STORYLINES
w UConn enters this week’s Rutgers game as the winner of seven of the last nine games it has played dating back to last season. w
Junior Jordan Todman is fourth in the country in rushing and second in the BIG EAST with 159.50 yards per game.
w UConn has outscored it opponents in the
second half by a 50-7 margin in the last two games.
w The Huskies open BIG EAST Conference
play and are in their seventh year of league play.
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 58 of UConn’s last 95 games dating back to the ninth game of the 2002 season. He has a 60-43 (.583) mark through the first 103 games of UConn’s tenure at the FBS level. His overall career mark at UConn stands at 69-67. Friday’s game against Rutgers will be the 137th 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. RUTGERS COACH GREG SCHIANO Greg Schiano is in his tenth season as the head football coach at Rutgers. He has an all-time record of 57-57 at the school. He has led the Scarlet Knights to bowl wins in each of the past four years - a first in school history - and to five-straight bowl appearances -- another school first. Schiano was the defensive coordinator at Miami (Fla.) from 1999-2000 and spent 1996-99 as an assistant coach with the NFL’s Chicago Bears. He was an assistant at Penn State from 1990-96. Schiano is a 1988 Bucknell graduate and was a linebacker for the Bison.
RADIO & TV COVERAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Friday’s game will be televised live nationally by ESPN. Brad Nessler is on playby-play while Rod Gilmore is on color. Steve Ackels is the producer and Steve Turnberger is the director. The game will also be replayed on SNY in its entirity on Sunday, Oct. 10 at 10 a.m.. The game will also be rebroadcast in a condensed mode on the “Husky Power Hour” on Sunday, Oct. 10 at 6:00 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 7:00 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 13 at 2:00 p.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.