rocketfootball Wrote:Great to see you guys got a 1-A opponent. Toledo played Nevada twice back in 1995, our last games against them. We beat them 49-35 in Toledo during the regular season. Then we beat them 40-37 in the Vegas Bowl.
I thought i recall seeing Toledo play at Nevada last season.....or was that the other Nevada team???
Anyway, they finally issued a press release on the UB website and it sounds like we got a great deal out of this. ESPN will televise two UB games...who knows when?!? (one football, one hoops). It doesn't say which games will be on or when? but I hope we're talking ESPN or ESPN2 and not just ESPN+
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Change Made To UB Football Schedule
Bulls to travel to Nevada on Sept. 18 instead of Temple
BUFFALO, NY The University at Buffalo football schedule for this fall has been altered to accomodate ESPN television.
The Bulls, originally scheduled to travel to Temple on Sept. 18, will instead travel to Nevada for a non-conference game against the Wolfpack. The change came to accomodate a request from ESPN and will lead to Buffalo receiving two national television exposures, one each in football and basketball, on ESPN. The arrangement came as the result of negotiations among six schools.
Buffalo's series with Temple will resume in 2006 with a game in Buffalo.
"We felt that this agreement benefitted both UB and the Mid-American Conference," said Bill Maher, interim Director of Athletics. "The opportunity for the University at Buffalo and our student-athletes to receive national television exposure was a major factor in making this change."
Buffalo and Nevada have never met in football, and this will be the first time the Bulls have ever played a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The Wolfpack, 6-6 last season, will return the game at UB Stadium during the 2009 season.
The 2004 schedule:
Date Opponent Site Time
Thur., Sept. 2 at Eastern Michigan* Ypsilanti, MI 7 pm
Sat., Sept. 11 SYRACUSE UB Stadium 6 pm
Sat., Sept. 18 at Nevada Reno, NV TBA
Sat., Sept. 25 at Ohio* Athens, OH 7 pm
Sat., Oct. 2 UCF* UB Stadium 6 pm
Sat., Oct. 9 at Akron* Akron, OH 6 pm
Sat., Oct. 16 MIAMI (OH)*# UB Stadium 1:30 pm
Sat., Oct. 23 at Marshall* Huntington, WV 4:30 pm
Sat., Oct. 30 Bye week
Sat., Nov. 6 KENT STATE* UB Stadium 1:30 pm
Sat., Nov. 13 CENTRAL MICHIGAN* UB Stadium 1:30 pm
Sat., Nov. 20 at Connecticut East Hartford, CT TBA
*Mid-American Conference games
#Homecoming
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