Ball State University Athletics
Football Team at Temple Saturday
October 10, 2009 | Football
• Game 6 at Temple Owls •
Game Time: Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009 -- 1 p.m. (ET)
Location: Lincoln Financial Field (Capacity: 68,532) -- Natural Grass -- Philadelphia, Pa.
Television: None
Radio: Ball State Radio Network (WLBC 104.1 FM Muncie; XL-950 Indianapolis; FM 100 Fort Wayne and Willie 103.5 Warsaw/South Bend); (Morry Mannies, PBP; Mark O'Connell, Analyst; Rick Johnston, Sideline)
Additional Radio: Ball State Student Station WCRD 91.3 FM (Nick Yeoman, PBP; Ryan Camden, Analyst; Paul Brown, Sideline)
Live Stats & Internet Radio: ballstatesports.com
• Ball State GameDay •
Records: Ball State (0-5; MAC 0-1) at Temple (2-2; MAC 2-0)
Series History: Ball State and Temple have never met in football.
Ball State Head Coach Stan Parrish: Coach Parrish (Heidelberg '69) is in his fifth season at Ball State, and in his first full season as the school's head coach . . . Parrish was named the Cardinals 15th head football coach Dec. 18, 2008, and was the head mentor in Ball State's Jan. 6, 2009, GMAC Bowl appearance . . . Parrish became the first Ball State assistant coach to be promoted to head coach since Wave Myers in 1968 . . . Parrish was one of five finalists for the 2008 Broyles Award, which goes to the nation's top assistant coach . . . He owns a 57-47-3 career head coaching record, which include's stints at Wabash (1978-82), Marshall (1984-85) and Kansas State (1986-88) . . . Parrish earned a college football national championship ring as a member of the 1997 Michigan coaching staff and owns a NFL Super Bowl ring after serving as the quarterbacks coach of the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Temple Head Coach Al Golden: Coach Golden (Penn State '91) is in his fourth season as the head coach at Temple and his fourth year as a head collegiate mentor . . . Golden owns a 12-28 career coaching mark, including a 5-3 record in Mid-American Conference games.
Scouting Temple: Temple is 2-2 overall and 2-0 in Mid-American Conference play . . . After opening the season with back-to-back losses at home to Villanova (27-24) and at Penn State (31-6), the Owls have posted back-to-back wins over Buffalo (37-13) and at Eastern Michigan (24-12) . . . Temple is averaging 341.2 yards in total offense per game, while allowing opponents 344.0 per contest . . . Bernard Pierce is the team's leading rusher with 364 yards and three touchdowns on 58 rushes . . . Junior quarterback Vaughn Charlton has completed 49-of-96 passes for 740 yards with four touchdowns and four interceptions . . . Temple has won five straight MAC games at Lincoln Financial Field and is 8-2 in league home games since joining the MAC in 2007.
Ball State Captains: Brandon Crawford (Fort Wayne, Ind./South H.S.) and Madaris Grant (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mount Healthy H.S.) were named Ball State's team captains at the beginning of the 2009 campaign.
