Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU-Wyoming Post-Game Notes
September 27, 2008 | Football
Sept. 27, 2008
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LARAMIE, Wyo. - Some notes and numbers from the Bowling Green State University football team's 45-16 win over the University of Wyoming Saturday afternoon (Sept. 27) in Laramie ...
* The win gives the Falcons a 2-2 record through the non-conference portion of the schedule. BGSU has a 2-1 road record this year to date, with wins at Pittsburgh and UW.
* BGSU now has 13 out-of-conference wins since 2003, the most of any Mid-American Conference program.
* BGSU's total of 45 points was the Falcons' highest since a 48-35 win over Temple last season (Sept. 22, 2007).
* The 29-point margin of victory was the Falcons' largest since a 70-7 win over those same Owls three seasons ago (Oct. 1, 2005).
* The win was the 40th of Gregg Brandon's collegiate head-coaching career. Brandon, in his sixth season as the Falcons' head coach, now has a record of 40-26.
* BGSU has won five of the last six road games, dating to last season.
* Junior QB Tyler Sheehan threw for 287 yards in the win, his highest total of the season and the fourth-highest total of his career. Each of his three higher totals came within the first three games of last season. Sheehan threw for 388 yards in the 2007 season-opening win at Minnesota, then had 295 yards passing at Michigan State and 351 yards through the air at Temple in the next two games last September.
* Redshirt junior LB Cody Basler scored the first touchdown of his Falcon career on Wyoming's opening drive Saturday. A pass by UW starting quarterback Dax Crum was intercepted by redshirt junior DL Michael Ream at the Cowboys' 20-yard line. Ream was tackled just prior to reaching the end zone. He fumbled the ball into the end zone, where Basler fell on it for a Falcon TD.
* The interception was the first of Ream's career, and the fumble recovery was Basler's second as a Falcon.
* With four receptions for 72 yards vs. the Cowboys, senior WR Corey Partridge moved up several spots on a BGSU career list. Partridge now has a career total of 141 receptions as a Falcon. He moved past Mark Dowdell (138 receptions from 1981-84) and Ronald Heard (139 from 1986-89) into ninth place on the school list. Partridge's next target on that list is eighth-place Kurt Gerling, who had 152 total catches from 1998-2001.
* Early in the second quarter, Sheehan went off tackle for a 28-yard touchdown run, without being touched by a Wyoming defender. The play was the longest run of Sheehan's Falcon career, surpassing a 23-yard carry in last year's GMAC Bowl.
* For Sheehan, the TD run was his second of the season and the fifth of his career.
* On a fourth-and-4 play, Sheehan's bubble screen pass to Partridge went for a 34-yard score with just 47 seconds left in the first half. The TD catch was Partridge's first of the season and the seventh of his Falcon career.
* On Wyoming's next offensive play from scrimmage, the Cowboys' Devin Moore fumbled, and Falcon fifth-year senior LB Erique Dozier recovered at the UW 18-yard line. It was the third recovery of Dozier's career.
* Senior PK Sinisa Vrvilo drilled a 44-yard field goal with six seconds left in the half, giving the Falcons a 24-10 lead at the intermission. The FG was Vrvilo's longest of the year.
* The Falcons' 24 points marked BGSU's highest-scoring half since a 24-point opening half in last year's win at Buffalo (Nov. 17, 2007). BG has not scored more points in a half since the week before that UB game, when the Brown and Orange scored 25 points in the second half in another road win, at EMU.
* Basler continued his big day, as Wyoming's first drive of the second half ended with an interception by the LB. It was the first pick of his collegiate career.
* The next two plays saw Sheehan hook up with senior WR Marques Parks. Sheehan hit Parks on a 21-yard completion, then found a wide-open Parks in the end zone for a 20-yard score. The TD catch was Parks' first of the season and the sixth of his career.
* For Sheehan, it gave him four TD tosses this year and 27 in his Falcon career.
* On the next drive, senior CB Kenny Lewis intercepted a pass by Cory Stutzriem (Wyoming's fourth QB of the day). For Lewis, it was his second INT of the year and the eighth of his career. Lewis is now BGSU's active career leader in that department (P.J. Mahone has seven career picks).
* Sheehan found Partridge for a pretty 38-yard completion down to the six-yard line. From there, redshirt junior RB Chris Bullock bulled his way into the end zone. Bullock scored on another six-yard run early in the fourth quarter, for his second career game with two rushing scores (2006 vs. Temple).
* Bullock now has six career rushing TDs.
* Jerett Sanderson intercepted a pass by Crum (UW's starter who was back in the game) early in the fourth quarter. The pick was Sanderson's first of 2008 and the fourth of his career.
* Sophomore RB Willie Geter had a career-long 39-yard reception in the game, on the opening drive of the afternoon.
* Former Falcon P.J. Pope was at the game. Pope, currently a member of the Denver Broncos organization, made the relatively short trip to Laramie and was on the BG sideline Saturday afternoon.
* The game was a homecoming for Coach Brandon. Brandon was an assistant coach at Wyoming from 1987-90, coaching the Cowboys' receivers.
* Brandon was part of a Wyoming staff that went 35-13 overall in four years, including an undefeated 16-0 Western Athletic Conference run in 1987-88. The team won two WAC championships and went to three bowl games while Brandon was on Paul Roach's staff, including trips to the Holiday Bowl against Iowa (1987) and Oklahoma State (1988) and the Copper Bowl vs. California (1990).
* Freshman DB Adrien Spencer broke up a pass with 3:41 left in the fourth quarter.
* BGSU had 388 yards of total offense to Wyoming's 316.
* For the Cowboys, Moore had a total of 114 yards rushing. A total of 51 of those yards, however, came on Wyoming's final drive of the afternoon, long after the game's outcome had been determined.
* The Falcons were a +4 in turnover margin in the game.
* BGSU now returns home to open the MAC schedule next weekend. The Falcons will face Eastern Michigan in a 4:00 p.m. game next Saturday (Oct. 4) at Perry Stadium. It will be Homecoming Weekend on the BGSU campus.
