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#5/#7 UcA BEARS (1-0, 0-0 SLC) @ colorado Buffaloes (1-0, 0-0 Pac-12) dATE: Saturday, Sept. 7 MEdiA: KUCA 91.3 FM, Heartbeat 106.7, TiME: 7:00 p.m. www.ucasports.com, Pac-12 Network SiTE: Folsom Field (53,613), Boulder, Colo. SERiES: First meeting coAchES: clint ConqUE is in his 14th season at the helm of the UCA football program. He has an 99-54-0 overall record and is the winningest 2013 coach in the long history of UCA football, dating back to 1908. StandingS Conque came to UCA from the offensive coordinator position at Louisiana Tech in 2000. He passed UCA Sports Hall of Famer Harold Horton as the winningest coach in school School Slc ....% All ....% STR history with a victory over Eastern Illinois in UcA 0-0 ......000 1-0 .....1.000 W-1 2010. Conque and Horton are the only two Lamar 0-0 ......000 1-0 .....1.000 W-1 coaches in school history to reach the 70-win McNeese State 0-0 ......000 1-0 .....1.000 W-1 mark. Northwestern State 0-0 ......000 1-0 .....1.000 W-1 Conque led the Bears to their first-ever NCAA Playoff appearance in 2001. UCA finished 9-3 that season, the most Sam Houston State 0-0 ......000 1-0 .....1.000 W-1 wins in a year since the 1992 season. He took them back to the playoffs SE Louisiana 0-0 ......000 1-0 .....1.000 W-1 in 2005, winning two straight road games and advancing to the national Nicholls 0-0 ......000 0-1 ......000 L-1 quarterfinals. Stephen F. Austin 0-0 ......000 0-1 ......000 L-1 His Bears finished the 2008 season with the best record in the Southland Conference at 6-1 but were ineligible for the official league title due to their transition. Conque was named the SLC Coach of the Year that ThURSdAY, AUg. 29 season and again in 2012. UcA 58, incarnate Word 7 Northwestern State 23, Missouri State 17 Two years ago, Conque took the Bears to their first-ever Division I SE Louisiana 45, SE Missouri 7 Playoff appearance, and won the first road playoff game by a Southland Conference team since 2004, beating Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, SATURdAY, AUg. 31 Tenn. The Bears made the second round of the playoffs again last season, Oregon 66, Nicholls 3 finishing 9-3 and Conque was a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Award for McNeese State 53, South Florida 21 a third time. Sam Houston State 74, Houston Baptist 0 Lamar 75, Panhandle State 0 Conque, 52, is a Louisiana native who played collegiately at Nicholls Weber State 50, Stephen F. Austin 40 State after graduating from Catholic High School in Baton Rouge and playing two years at Southwest Mississippi Community College. SATURdAY, SEpT. 7 Conque was a first-team AP All-American as a outside linebacker at UcA @ colorado - 7:00 (pac-12 network) Nicholls State. He was inducted into the Nicholls State Athletic Hall of Fame SE Louisiana @ TCU - 11:00 (FSN) in 2006. His previous coaching stops were at Louisiana Tech, Samford Lamar @ Louisiana Tech - 6:00 University and McNeese State. NIcholls @ Western Michigan - 6:00 (ESPN3) Southern @ Northwestern State - 6:00 Stephen F. Austin @ Texas Tech - 6:00 (FSN) MiKE MAcinTYRE is in his first season as the head coach of the UAPB @ McNeese State - 7:30 (CSNH) Buffaloes. Sam Houston State @ Texas A&M - 6:00 (FSN PPV) MacIntyre came to Colorado from San Jose State, where he put together a 16-21 record over four seasons. The Spartans had their first SATURdAY, SEpT. 14 10-win season in 25 years in 2012 (10-2), beating Bowling Green 29-20 UcA @ UT-Martin - 6:00 Texas Southern @ Sam Houston State - 2:00 (CSNH) in the Military Bowl and finishing No. 21 in the nation. Northwestern State @ Cincinnati - 6:00 (ESPN3) MacIntyre, a Georgia Tech graduate, is a 22-year veteran of the Nicholls @ Louisiana-Lafayette - 6:00 coaching ranks, including stops at Duke, Ole Miss, Georgia, Davidson, SE Louisiana @ South Dakota State - 6:00 UT Martin and Temple on the collegiate level, and with the New York Jets McMurry @ Stephen F. Austin - 6:00 and Dallas Cowboys in the NFL. Lamar @ Oklahoma State - 6:30 (FSN) MacIntyre was a two-year letterman at Georgia Tech as a free safety West Alabama @ McNeese State - 7:00 UCA FOOTBALL BENCHMARKS 3 National championships 2008, 2012 SLC Champions 2011, 2012 NCAA D-I Playoffs 463 All-Conference selections 100 All-Americans 25 Conference Titles 19 posteason appearances1 61 NCAA All-Academic picks and punt returner for Coach Bobby Ross. He also played two years at Sophomore RB Danzel Williams, a transfer from Oklahoma, had 1- Vanderbilt under his father, Coach George MacIntyre. and 3-yard rushing TDs for his first UCA scores. Redshirt freshman WR Desmond Smith fell on a blocked punt in the end zone for his first TD. ThE SERiES: The Bears and Buffaloes have never met on the football field. FBS WinS: UCA has also never faced a Pac-12 team in football. Seven FCS schools recorded victories over FBS schools on the opening week of the 2013 season, including SLC member McNeese lAST YEAR: State’s 53-21 road win over South Florida. The Bears went 9-3, winning nine games for the second straight The victories included: Eastern Washington 49, #25 Oregon State 46; season and for the third time since moving to Division I in 2006. North Dakota State 24, Kansas State 21; Towson 33, UConn 18; Northern UCA reached the second round of the FCS Playoffs for the second Iowa 28, Iowa State 20; Eastern Illinois 40, San Diego State 19; Southern straight season, losing to perennial power Georgia Southern on Utah 22, South Alabama 21. the road. The Bears have yet to host an FCS playoff game in two Six Southland Conference schools will play FBS opponents again seasons. this week, including UCA at Colorado. UCA finished first in the Southland Conference last season for the second time since 2008. The Bears were a league-best cEnTURY MARK: 6-1 in 2008 but were ineligible for the league title because of the UCA coach Clint Conque is one victory away from his 100th career transition from Division II. UCA (6-1) was co-champion with Sam victory as head coach of the Bears. His record, in his 14th season, is 99- Houston State last season, a team the Bears beat 24-20 in Conway 54. His teams have won at least 8 games eight times, including an 11-3 on Sept. 22 to earn the league’s automatic bid to the playoffs. mark in 2005, which tied the school record for victories. UCA won four of the seven individual postseason awards given The Bears have recorded back-to-back nine-win seasons over the by the SLC, including Coach of the Year, Freshman of the Year (DE past two years, advancing to the second round of the FCS Playoffs both Jonathan Woodard), Offensive Player of the Year (QB Wynrick years. Smothers) and Offensive Lineman of the Year (Corey Howard). MiSSing in AcTion: lAST WEEK: The Bears will have five players suspended to begin the 2013 season, The Bears opened the 2013 season with an easy 58-7 victory over including starting running back Willie Matthews for the opening game Southland Conference newcomer Incarnate Word on “The Stripes.” against UIW. UCA rolled up 537 yards of total offense and scored on its five posses- Matthews missed the season opener, while junior offensive lineman sions of the game, and six of its first seven. Senior QB Wynrick Smothers C.J. Simon, junior receiver Jacoby Walker, junior offensive lineman Jordan was a model of efficiency, completing his first 11 straight passes en route to Kersh and redshirt freshman receiver Wyatt Hikins will miss the first two a 27-for-31 performance, for 267 yards and a TD. Backups Ryan Howard games. All are due to violations of team rules, according to head coach and Taylor Reed combined to complete 7 of 10 for 114 yards and another Clint Conque. score. The UCA defense held UIW to just 231 yards of offense, with 68 BY ThE nUMBERS: yards of that coming on the Cardinals’ only scoring drive late in the fourth The Bears converted 10 of 14 third-down attempts last week, and quarter. UCA freshman Jatavious Wilson quickly answered that drive with were 1 of 1 on fourth downs as well. UCA had a time of possession a 93-yard kickoff return for a TD that set the final margin. advantage of 33:24 to 26:36, including 10:11 in the first period when the The victory was UCA’s 13th consecutive at home, and 12th in a row Bears scored three times. since the installation of the purple-gray turf in 2011. UCA punted for a 45.0-yard average and averaged 55.0 yards per kickoff return. UCA quarterbacks completed passes to 10 different receiv- FiRST TiMERS: ers, with sophomore Blake Gardner grabbing a career-high 10. Four Bears scored their first career touchdowns in Saturday’s win, The Bears averaged 7.2 yards per play (75 for 537) and totaled 25 and another threw his first career TD pass in the purple and gray. first downs to UIW’s 12. Sophomore running back Blake Veasley scored UCA’s first two TDs, UCA played 60 players, including four true freshmen (OL Bryan from 11 and 18 yards, in the first quarter.