Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Host Missouri in Hall of Fame Weekend Matchup
September 08, 2002 | Football
Sept. 8, 2002
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MISSOURI (2-0) at BOWLING GREEN (1-0) Saturday, September 14, 2002 * 6:05 p.m. Perry Stadium (30,599)/Varsity BG/Hall of Fame Night Series Record: BGSU leads, 2-1 Last Meeting: BGSU 20, at Missouri 13 (9/1/01) Radio: WBVI-FM (96.7) / WFOB-AM (1430) Internet: www.bgsufalcons.com / wbvi.com
The Bowling Green State University, coming off a 41-7 win against Tennessee Tech in the 2002 season opener, will battle former BGSU assistant coach Gary Pinkel and the 2-0 Missouri Tigers. Pinkel was a BGSU assistant from 1977-78 and was 2-3 in Perry Stadium during his tenure as the head coach at Toledo (1991-2000). The Tigers are the first Big 12 team to visit BGSU since Iowa State came to Perry Stadium in 1977. This also marks the third straight year that a school from a BCS affiliated conference will visit Doyt Perry Stadium (Pittsburgh, Temple and Missouri).
BGSU posted NCAA I-A's top turnaround last fall, going 8-3 after finishing with a 2-9 record in 2000. The Falcons began that year with a season opening 20-13 win at Missouri. The Falcons are 4-0 at home under their newly-installed permanent lights since 2001. BGSU is 8-2 all-time in night games (starting after 6 p.m.) at home, since the first night game in 1989, and the Falcons have a six-game home winning streak under the lights.
The Falcons will be looking to start 2-0 in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1975 and 1976
A win over Tennessee Tech gave the Falcons a four-game winning streak dating back to last year. That is the longest for BGSU since the 1994 season when it captured nine straight contests.
Bowling Green and Missouri will hook up for the fourth time since the 1995 season.
The Falcons have taken two out of three meetings in the Show-Me State and will also return to Columbia in 2009.
The Tigers will be the first of two Big 12 (Kansas) opponents for the Falcons this season, while Missouri is concluding a two-game stretch against the MAC (Ball State).
