BOWLING GREEN 2015 FALCON FOOTBALL Football Contact: Scott Swegan • Office: 419-372-7105 • Cell: 419-575-9148 • Email: [email protected] Secondary Football Contact: James Nahikian • Office: 419-372-4027 • Cell: 248-224-8113 • Email: [email protected] Athletic Communications Office • Bowling Green State University • 251 Perry Stadium East • Bowling Green, OH 43403 GAME INFORMATION Saturday, Sept. 12, 12:00 PM ET College Park, Md. Byrd Stadium (54,000) Big Ten Network SATURDAY, SEPT. 12 Joe Beninati, Scott McBrien BOWLING GREEN MARYLAND FALCONS 12:00 PM EST TERRAPINS BTN2GO.com 0-1, 0-0 MAC BYRD STADIUM (54,000) 1-0, 0-0 B1G COLLEGE PARK, MD. Falcon Radio Network Todd Walker, John Gibson FALCONS HEAD TO MARYLAND FOR SHOWDOWN WITH TERRAPINS Coming off a season-opening loss at No. 25 Tennessee, the Bowling Green State University BGSUFalcons.com football team will look to break into the win column on Saturday at Maryland. The BGSU offense posted 557 yards and 30 points against UT’s defense in week one. Maryland is coming off a 50-21 win over Richmond in their season opener. It will be the first-ever MATCHUP INFO matchup between the two schools. Bowling Green ................................ Maryland A WIN AGAINST MARYLAND WOULD... Bowling Green, Ohio .....Location ..........College Park, Md. • Be the first win of the 2015 season for the Falcons 17,558 ..........................Enrollment .......................... 37,248 • Mark the second straight season that the Falcons have defeated a Power Five Conference 1910 ................................Founded ................................1856 opponent as well as a Big Ten Conference opponent Orange & Brown ..............Colors Red, White, Black & Gold • Be the Falcons’ fifth straight season that they have won their second game of the season Mid-American ............ Conference .........................Big Ten Dino Babers ................Head Coach ...............Randy Edsall • Give Bowling Green their first road victory over a Power Five school since 2008 when they 27-14 (4) .............Career Record (Yrs) ........95-100 (17) defeated Pittsburgh in the season opener 8-7 (2) ...............Record at School (Yrs) ..........21-30 (5) 30 ................................Points/Game ................................50 FALCON FACTS 557 ............................ Offense/Game ............................479 • Bowling Green racked up 557 yards of total offense against No. 25 Tennessee in the season 124 ............................Rushing/Game ...........................341 opener - the third-highest mark in the Dino Babers’ era. 433 ............................Passing/Game ............................138 • The Falcons were led by quarterback Matt Johnson, who passed for a career-high 424 yards 59 .......................Points Allowed/Game .......................21 604 ......................Total Defense/Game .....................276 in the loss. The 424 yards were the eighth-most in school history for a single game and the 399 ...................Rushing Allowed/Game .....................56 second-most in the country during opening weekend. 205 ...................Passing Allowed/Game ..................220 • Six Falcons made their first career start against Tennessee, while eight other players saw -1 .............................Turnover Margin ............................ -1 their first action of their careers in a Falcon uniform. • Fred Coppet surpassed 1,000 career rushing yards in Saturday’s game, making him the 36th FOLLOW THE FALCONS player all-time to do so. • The Falcons now have three active receivers with more than 1,000 yards and two active BGSU Athletics running backs over 1,000 yards. @BGAthletics • Gehrig Dieter caught seven passes for a career-high 133 yards in week one. He also caught a touchdown. BGSU Football @BG_Football • Bowling Green’s three tight ends combined to catch five passes for 61 yards and a touchdown. Last season Bowling Green’s tight ends had just two receptions all season. Coach Dino Babers @CoachBabersBG HEAD COACH DINO BABERS • Dino Babers is in his second season at the helm of the Orange and Brown, and his fourth BGSU Athletics bgfalcons season overall as a head coach. He has a career record of 27-14 and has won a championship in all three seasons thus far. BGSU Athletics • Babers has impressed in his Bowling Green tenure thus far, winning eight games in his first ‘BGSU Athletic’ season. In those eight wins were a victory over a Big Ten foe (Indiana), a MAC East Division BGSU Athletics championship, and Bowling Green’s first bowl win since the 2004 season. ‘BGAthletics’ BOWLING GREEN FALCON FOOTBALL 2015 BGSU FOOTBALL MEDIA POLICIES CREDENTIALS Requests for working press credentials should be made to the BGSU Athletic Communications Office, addressed to the attention of Scott Swegan. Requests should be made at least one week in advance. Late requests will be honored if space is available, but parking cannot be guaranteed for requests less than one week in advance. Scouts and non-working media will be seated if space is available. WEEKLY INFORMATION Media members can access BGSU information via the internet at BGSUFalcons.com. Weekly game notes and statistics will be updated regularly. A PDF version of releases and statistics can be e-mailed to those outlets which would prefer to receive this information on a regular basis. Please notify Scott Swegan if you would like to be put on our primary media e-mail list. MAC TELECONFERENCE Coach Babers will be available each Monday during the regular season on the weekly MAC Teleconference (10:50-11:00 a.m., Eastern). To join this MAC Teleconference please contact the MAC at 216-466-5622 and ask for Ken Mather. WEEKLY PRESSER Coach Babers will hold a weekly media press conference each week in the Wilcox Board Room on the third floor of the Sebo Athletic Center. All members of the media are welcome to attend. Out-of-town media should contact Scott Swegan to schedule a phone interview with Coach Babers or players at least one day in advance. All phone interviews need to be completed by Wednesday evening. Audio and video of each weekly press conference will be available at BGSUFalcons. com shortly after the completion of the press conference. PLAYER INTERVIEWS All interviews with members of the team should be coordinated through the BGSU Athletic Communications office. Players will be made available following practice on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please allow at least 24 hours to set up interviews with players. Arrangements will be made for telephone and in-person interviews at a time that is mutually agreeable to the reporter/broadcaster and the student-athlete. PARKING A special media parking lot is located adjacent to Doyt Perry Stadium, near Cochrane Field. Access to the media lot is by Stadium Drive which is accessible off of Mercer Road. Admission to the media lot is restricted to people holding the correct credential acquired from the athletic communications office. All media members are asked to enter the stadium through the press gate (Gate 2) at the southwest corner of the stadium. POST-GAME INTERVIEWS At Home: Coach Babers and BGSU players will be available for post-game interviews in the Sentinel-Tribune Room located between the two locker rooms, following the normal cooling-off period. BGSU observes a closed locker room policy. The Sentinel-Tribune Room is on the east side of the stadium (opposite the press box), and can be entered through the tunnels at either the north or south end. On the road: Coach Babers and requested players will be made available in a designated media room or just outside the locker room following the normal cooling-off period. PRESS GATE The press gate (Gate 2) at Doyt L. Perry Stadium is at the southwest corner of the stadium, a short walk from the media parking lot. Late credential requests will be available for pickup at Gate 2 on game day. MEDIA FIELD POLICY A general media pass will allow you access to the field during pre-game warmups and during the final five minutes of the fourth quarter only. Field access at other times will be limited to working photographers and television reporters. No interviews may be conducted on the field and any attempt to do so may lead to the loss of your media pass. PHOTOGRAPHERS Photo passes for newspaper photographers, television videographers and, under special circumstances, for free-lance photographers, are available from the athletic communications office. Photo passes entitle the photographer access to the sideline, the post-game press conference room and the press box. PRESS BOX SERVICES Members of the media will be provided with game programs, flip cards, current statistics and last-minute pregame notes prior to the start of the game. Statistical summaries will include play-by-play, quarter stats, halftime stats, complete team and individual stats and tackles. The BGSU Press Box does have a wireless internet connection for all members of the media. RADIO Requests for permission to broadcast must be made in writing. Space will be made available for the official visiting radio station and student radio station on request. There is space in each booth for four persons. Phone lines can be ordered through Steve Messenger ([email protected]). LIVE STREAMING Live streaming of BGSU football practices or games is not permitted. The use of Periscope and Meerkat is prohibited while covering BGSU Football, unless prior permission is obtained from the BGSU Athletic Communications staff. Maryland Week Schedule/Media Availability Please contact Scott