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UB Football releases 2011 schedule

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UB Football releases 2011 schedule

February 28, 2011 Updated Feb 28, 2011 at 6:56 PM EDT

BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo announced its 2011 football schedule today which features a game at a historic SEC venue, a home game against a BCS bowl team and the two teams that competed in the Mid-American Conference championship game last December.



Once again in 2011, Buffalo will play six home and six away games and this year’s schedule features significantly less weekday games than recent schedules. Among the notables in the schedule is a Homecoming weekend game against Connecticut, 2010 Big East champions and Fiesta Bowl participants, on Sept. 24 and a matchup with Tennessee at historic Neyland Stadium, with a capacity of 102,455, the following weekend on Oct. 1.



The Bulls home schedule consists of the home opener versus SUNY brethren Stony Brook (9/10), UConn (9/24) and MAC matchups with Ohio (10/8), defending MAC West champion Northern Illinois (10/22) as well as MAC East rivals Akron (11/19) and Bowling Green (11/25). The Bowling Green game is the only non-Saturday game on the schedule, and will be on one of the ESPN family of networks.
The Bulls will open the 2011 campaign on the road at Pittsburgh of the Big East on Saturday, Sept. 3. It is the second game of a four-game home and-and-home series between the programs. Buffalo will play an early MAC contest when they travel to Ball State on Sept. 17, before facing UConn and Tennessee in back-to-back weeks. The trip to Tennessee will mark Buffalo’s second appearance in an SEC venue following a 2006 trip to Auburn.



The Bulls will have additional MAC road games at Temple (10/15), defending MAC champion Miami (10/29) and Eastern Michigan (11/12).



“I’m very excited about our schedule and the opportunities it affords us to continue to strengthen our program,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “We have two outstanding Big East programs on the schedule, an opportunity to play in one of the great college football venues in America at Tennessee, and our always challenging Mid-American Conference schedule.



“Its is the kind of schedule we need to play to compete for MAC Championships and continue to showcase the University at Buffalo as a great academic and athletic institution,” said Quinn.

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