Ball State University Athletics
Football at Buffalo Friday on National Television
November 12, 2010 | Football
Ball State Cardinals (3-7; MAC 2-4) at
Buffalo Bulls (2-7; MAC 1-4)
UB Stadium (Sportexe Momentum) -- Capacity: 29,013
Buffalo, N.Y. -- Fri., Nov. 12 -- 6 p.m. (ET)
Television: ESPNU (Justin Kutcher, Play-by-Play; Tom Luginbill, Color Anaylst)
Radio: Ball State Radio Network -- WLBC 104.1 FM Muncie
(Morry Mannies, Play-by-Play; Mark O'Connell, Analyst)
WCRD Radio (Ball State Student Station - FM 91.3)
(Pat Boylan, Play-by-Play; Kyle Binder, Analyst)
Live Stats & Internet Radio: ballstatesports.com
The Series: Ball State and Buffalo have met seven times in a series which dates back to the 1969 season . . . The two teams met in 1969 and 1970, but then did not meet until the 2000 season . . . Ball State owns a 6-1 all-time edge in the series . . . Buffalo won the last meeting in 2008, but the Cardinals had won the first six games of the series . . . In games played at Buffalo, Ball State owns a 3-0 all-time edge.
The Last Meeting: Ball State and Buffalo met in the Mid-American Conference Championship Game at Ford Field in Detroit, Mich., Dec. 5, 2008 . . . Ball State took a 12-0 regular season record and the MAC West Division Championship into the game, while the Bulls won the MAC's East Division with a 7-5 overall record . . . Despite a pair of touchdown runs from junior MiQuale Lewis, the 12th-ranked Ball State football team suffered a 42-24 setback to Buffalo in the 2008 MAC title game . . . Lewis ended the game with 131 rushing yards on 30 carries, giving him a BSU single-season record 1,701 yards . . . Ball State quarterback Nate Davis completed 31-of-48 passes in the game for 351 yards and a touchdown . . . Briggs Orsbon hauled in a MAC Championship Game record 13 passes for a game-high 141 yards.
Ball State Head Coach Stan Parrish: Stan Parrish (Heidelberg '69) is in his sixth season at Ball State and his second as the Cardinals head coach . . . He was named the school's 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 promoted to head coach since Wave Myers in 1968 . . . One of five finalists for the 2008 Broyles Award, which goes to the nation's top assistant, Parrish owns a 62-59-3 career head coaching record at Wabash (1978-82), Marshall (1984-85), Kansas State (1986-88) and Ball State . . . Parrish earned a college football national championship ring as a member of the 1997 Michigan coaching staff and owns an NFL Super Bowl ring after serving as quarterbacks coach of the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers . . . Parrish has been selected for induction into the Heidelberg College Athletic Hall of Fame . . . Parrish is a part of the 25th induction class in school history.
Ball State 2010 Team Captains: Sean Baker (Canfield, Ohio/Canfield H.S.), Davyd Jones (Muncie, Ind./Central H.S.), MiQuale Lewis (Fort Wayne, Ind./Snider H.S.) and Michael Switzer (Indianapolis, Ind./Lawrence North H.S.).
Scouting Buffalo
The Record: Buffalo fell to 2-7 ooverall after suffering a 34-17 loss at Ohio last Thursday . . . The Bulls have posted wins over Rhode Island, 31-0 Sept. 2, and at Bowling Green, 28-26 Oct. 2.
The Coach: Jeff Quinn (Elmhurst '88) is in his first season as the head coach at Buffalo and his first year as a head collegiate mentor . . . Quinn spent the previous four seasons at Cincinnati, and prior to that was an assistant at Central Michigan.
The Stats: Buffalo is scoring 15.1 points per game, while allowing 30.1 per contest . . . The Bulls are rushing for 122.4 yards and passing for 185.0 yards per contest, while allowing 151.8 rushing and 190.9 passing yards a tilt . . . Buffalo has scored only three points in the first quarter all season and have been outscored 76-7 in fourth quarters this year.
Ball State Quick Hits
Friday's game at Buffalo will be the Cardinals 20th televised contest in the last three season . . . Ball State played twice on ESPN2 plus appeared on ESPNU, CBS College Sports and Fox Sports in 2009 . . . In 2010, the Cardinals have played on ESPN Plus once and the Big Ten Network twice. . . Ball State's game at Buffalo will be televised on ESPNU.
MiQuale Lewis (Fort Wayne, Ind./Snider H.S.), who ranks second on Ball State's career rushing chart with 3,731 yards, rushed for 72 yards on 23 carries vs. Buffalo . . . He now has 757 career rushing attempts, which ranks third all-time at Ball State . . . Ball State's all-time rushing leader is Merriweather, who gained 4,002 yards from 1999-2002 . . . Lewis needs 272 rushing yards to become Ball State's all-time leader.
Jack Tomlinson (Westerville, Ohio/South H.S.) caught a career best three touchdowns vs. Buffalo, which ties for the third best single game total in Ball State history . . . He had a career high seven catches for a career best 175 receiving yards . . . The 175 receiving yards tied for the 12th best single-game effort in Ball State history.
Derrick Henry (Columbus, Ohio/Worthington Kilbourne H.S.), who tied his career high with nine tackles at Toledo, managed his first career interception in the third quarter vs. Akron.
Joshua Howard (Inkster, Mich./Inkster H.S.) tallied the first interception of his career on Akron's final play of the second overtime to seal the Ball State 37-30 victory.
Charlie Todd (Bear, Del./Howard H.S.) managed the third interception of his career in the third quarter vs. Akron.
Ball State has won 15 of its last 25 Mid-American Conference games . . . The Cardinals won their final three MAC games in 2007 and all eight league contests in 2008 for 11 straight conference victories, which ranks as the second longest league winning streak in school history.
