UCONN (7-4, 4-2 BE) vs. USF (7-4, 3-3 BE) GAME 12 w Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 w 8:00 P.M. RAyMOND JAMES StADiUM (66,321)
ESPN2 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) W, 38-17 12/4 at USF* (ESPN2) 8:00 PM * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
USF Schedule/Results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/4 STONY BROOK (BEN) W, 59-14 9/11 at Florida (SEC Net.) L, 14-38 9/25 WEST. KENTUCKY (BEN) W, 24-12 10/2 FAU W, 31-3 10/9 SYRACUSE* (BEN) L, 9-13 10/14 at West Virginia* (ESPN) L, 6-20 10/22 at Cincinnati (ESPNU) W, 38-30 11/3 RUTGERS* (ESPN2) W, 28-27 11/13 at Louisville* (ESPNU) W, 24-21 11/20 PITTSBURGH* (ESPN2) L, 10-17 11/27 at Miami (FL) (ESPNU) W, 23-20 12/4 CONNECTICUT* (ESPN2) 8:00 PM * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
GAME StORyLiNES
w Junior Jordan Todman is the secondleading rusher in the nation at 148.10 yards per game and is first in the BIG EAST. w Sophomore Nick Wlliams leads the coun-
try in kickoff returns at 42.09 yards per return.
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UConn finished its home season with a perfect 6-0 record but is 1-4 on the road this year.
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With its win over Syracuse on Nov. 20, 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 62 of UConn’s last 101 games dating back to the ninth game of the 2002 season. He has a 64-45 (.587) mark through the first 109 games of UConn’s tenure at the FBS level. His overall career mark at UConn stands at 73-69. Saturday’s game against USF will be the 143rd 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 73 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. USF HEAD COACH SKIP HOLTZ Skip Hotlz is in his first year as the head coach at USF. Prior to the USF position he was the lead coach at East Carolina for five seasons at the Pirates won backto-back Conference USA Championships in his last two years there. Holtz led ECU to appearances in the Liberty Bowl after the 2008 and ‘09 seasons and the Hawaii Bowl following the 2007 campaign. Holtz was also the head coach here at UConn from 1994-1998 and led the Huskies to a 10-3 mark in 1998 and earned a trip to the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs -- the school’s first-ever postseason appearance. From 1999-2003, he was on the coaching staff at South Carolina and from 199093 was an assistant at Notre Dame. He also coached at Colorado State (1989) and Florida State (1987-88). He is a 1986 Notre Dame graduate.
RADiO & tV COVERAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Saturday’s game will be televised by ESPN2. Mark Jones is on play-by-play while Bob Davie is on color. Kim Belton is the producer while Jeff Evers is the director. The game will also be replayed on SNY in its entirity on Monday, Dec. 6 at 2:00 p.m.. The game will also be rebroadcast in a condensed mode on the “Husky Power Hour” on Sunday, Dec. 5 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.