Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Open Season at #2 Oklahoma
August 27, 2004 | Football
Aug. 27, 2004
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Bowling Green (11-3 in 2003) vs. #2 Oklahoma (12-2 in 2003) Saturday, September 4 - Noon (EDT) Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (81,207) Series Record: First Meeting Television: ABC (Terry Gannon, Jamal Anderson) Radio: BGSU Radio Network (Todd Walker, John Gibson, Jason Aldrich)FIRST AND TEN The Falcons will be playing its highest ranked opponent ever when it faces #2 Oklahoma. BGSU opened the 2000 season at Michigan when they were ranked fourth in the nation and at Ohio State last year, when they were voted fourth in the land. Penn State was #11 in 1987 and West Virginia was #16 in 1988 when the Falcons opened the season those years against them. This will mark BGSU's first over-the-air network exposure since September 12, 1992 when it played Ohio State. This also will mark the fourth straight game, dating to last season, that BGSU will appear on national television, a MAC first. For the second straight year, BGSU will play a team that appeared in the previous season's BCS national championship game when they visit Oklahoma. BGSU played Ohio State last season. Second-year head coach Gregg Brandon , the 16th head coach in the history of the BGSU football program, joined Don Nehlen and Urban Meyer as the only BGSU football coaches to begin their career with a 3-0 record. Brandon's 11 wins last year were the most by any first-year NCAA IA coach in 2003. Sixteen players who started in last year's Motor City Bowl will be on the field for the Falcons. Nine of those were on offense and seven started on defense. The Falcons finished the 2003 season ranked 23rd in the AP and ESPN/USA Today Coaches Polls and were 21st in the final BCS rankings of 2003. BGSU received 2 votes in the first AP poll and 22 votes from the coaches. BGSU defeated two nationally ranked squads last year when they won 27-26 at #16 Purdue, and 34-18 against #12 Northern Illinois. Since 2001, BGSU is 3-0 against the Big XII and 3-1 against the Big Ten. During that span, the Falcons swept a home-and-home series against Missouri and won at Kansas. SOONER TIE BGSU Athletic Director Paul Krebs began his career at the University of Oklahoma in 1981 and was their Ticket Director from 1983-85. His wife, Marjori, is a 1985 graduate of Oklahoma as well.
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