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Florida Atlantic University Game Notes November 5, 2011 versus Arkansas State (Homecoming) This Week for the Owls Arkansas State at FAU, 4 p.m. November 5, 2011 All-Time Series: 3-3 Last Meeting: 10/22/05, 3-0(ot) ASU 10/28/06, 29-0, FAU 11/10/07, 34-31, FAU 11/22/08, 28-14, ASU Florida Atlantic will play host to Arkansas 185 yards standing between him and Charles 11/14/09 35-18, FAU State University 4 p.m. Saturday in a game Pierre for the program’s all-time rushing yards 10/23/10, 37-16, ASU designated as FAU’s homecoming. While the leader. Willie Floyd has progressively moved Radio: ESPN 760AM Owls currently stand at 0-7, they are 6-4 in up both the all-time kick returner chart and the WFLL1400AM homecoming games. FAU all-purpose yards leader board. Defensively, Today’s radio talent: defeated ASU 29-0, in 2006, a game also des- Kevin Cyrille continues his attach in sacks, Ken LaVicka (pxp) ignated as homecoming. The all-time series, tackles for a loss and quarterback hurries. Jason Pugh (color) Marcus Bartels is currently the program’s all- which included the NCAA’s first overtune Internet: fausports.com game following a 0-0 score (ASU won 3-0), time tackle leader among defensive backs and Television: None stands at 3-3. is closing in on the all-time mark held by three As the Owls cross the halfway point of linebackers. Punter Mickey Groody holds the the 2011 schedule it also marks a time when all-time average yards per punt but is also Next Week the seniors begin to hurdle records. Senior working to hold his two-year average among the nation’s top-20. for the Owls Alfred Morris is the most notable with just FIU Phil Steele’s Magazine November 12, 2011 2011 MidSeason All-SBC Team All-Time Series: 8-0 2nd Team: Alfred Morris, RB Last Meeting: 11/23/02, 31-21 FAU Randell Johnson, LB 11/22/03, 32-23 FAU David Hinds, LB 12/04/04, 17-10 FAU 3rd Team: Nexon Dorvilus, TE Vacated 11/26/05, 52-6 FIU Sam McRoy, OL 11/25/06, 31-0 FAU Jarvis Givens, NT 11/24/07, 55-23 FAU Mickey Groody, P 11/29/08, 57-50(ot)FAU 12/05/09, 28-21 FAU 2011 Schedule 10/30/10, 21-9 FAU Date Opponent Tm/Rs Radio: ESPN 760AM Sept. 3 at Florida-ESPNU L 41-3 WFLL1400AM Sept. 10 at Michigan State-ESPN2 L 44-0 Sept. 24 at Auburn-FSN/SunSportL 30-14 Today’s radio talent: Oct. 1 at Louisiana L 37-34 Ken LaVicka (pxp) Oct. 8 at North Texas-CSS L 31-17 Jason Pugh (color) Oct. 15 Western Kentucky L 20-0 Internet: fausports.com Oct. 22 MTSU (CSS) L 38-14 Television: None Nov. 5 Arkansas State 4 p.m. Follow the Owls Nov. 12 at FIU TBA www.fausports.com Nov. 19 at Troy 3:30 p.m. Like Our Page: FAUOwlAthletics Nov. 26 UAB 4 p.m. Follow us @FAUOwlAthletics Dec. 3 Louisiana Monroe 4 p.m. Schedule subject to change. All times EST. Follow @Schnellenberger Future Schedules at ULL Head Coach Howard Schnellenberger 2012 Middle Tennessee at Navy at North Texas at ULM Arkansas State Howard Schnellenberger Coaching Experience Troy at FIU 1999-Pres Head Coach, Florida Atlantic University at Western Kentucky at South Alabama ULL 1995 Head Coach, Oklahoma University at Middle Tennessee 1985-94 Head Coach, University of Louisville North Texas 2014 1979-84 Head Coach, University of Miami at Arkansas State at Wyoming 1975-79 Asst. Coach, Miami Dolphins FIU at Alabama at Georgia 1973-74 Head Coach, Baltimore Colts at Auburn 2015 1970-72 Asst. Coach, Miami Dolphins at Florida 1966-69 Asst. Coach, Los Angeles Rams 2013 1961-65 Asst. Coach, University of Alabama USF 2017 ULM at Navy 1959-60 Asst. Coach, University of Kentucky at Troy at Western Kentucky Schedules subject to Howard Schnellenberger at the College Level change. Years As Collegiate Head Coach: 27 Collegiate Record: 157-147-3 (.516) At Miami: 41-16 (.719) A note from College Football Trivia: At Louisville: 54-56-2 (.491) FAU's football team is 27-15 all-time in At Oklahoma: 5-5-1 (.500) games decided by seven points or less. At Florida Atlantic: 57-70 (.449) The record is the highest winning percentage of all current FBS teams. Bowl Record: 6-0 1980 Peach Bowl, beat Virginia Tech 20-10 1983 Orange Bowl, beat Nebraska 31-30 Top 10 Active FBS Coaches 1990 Fiesta Bowl, beat Alabama 34-7 1993 Liberty Bowl, beat Michigan State 18-7 by Wins 2007 New Orleans Bowl, beat Memphis 44-27 (Minimum five years as a Division IA Head 2008 Motor City Bowl, beat Central Michigan 24-20 Coach) • Record at four-year colleges only • (Records at season opener) 1. Joe Paterno, Penn State . .401 2. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech . .240 Howard Schnellenberger 3. Chris Ault, Nevada . .219 Year-by-Year Collegiate Head Coaching Record Mack Brown, Texas . .219 Year School W L T Pct 5. Steve Spurrier, South Carolina . .186 1979 Miami 5 6 0 .454 1980 Miami 9 3 0 .750 6. Brian Kelly, Notre Dame . .179 1981 Miami 9 2 0 .818 7. Dennis Erickson, Arizona State .173 1982 Miami 7 4 0 .636 8. Mike Price, UTEP . .169 1983 Miami 11 1 0 .916 9. Larry Blakeney, Troy . .160 1985 Louisville 2 9 0 .182 10. Howard Schnellenberger, FAU 157 1986 Louisville 3 8 0 .272 1987 Louisville 3 7 1 .318 ESPN’s Bruce Feldman Names 1988 Louisville 8 3 0 .727 “Howard Schnellenberger #1 Program 1989 Louisville 6 5 0 .545 Builder” 1990 Louisville 10 1 1 .875 1991 Louisville 2 9 0 .182 Active Coaches 1992 Louisville 5 6 0 .455 1993 Louisville 9 3 0 .750 with a national championship 1994 Louisville 6 5 0 .545 Howard Schnellenberger FAU (at Miami) 1995 Oklahoma 5 5 1 .502 Mack Brown . .Texas 2001 Fla Atlantic 4 6 0 .400 2002 Fla Atlantic 2 9 0 .181 Gene Chizik . .Auburn 2003 Fla Atlantic 11 3 0 .846 Larry Coker . .UTSA (while at Miami) 2004 Fla Atlantic 9 3 0 .750 Dennis Erickson Arizona State (at Miami) 2005 Fla Atlantic 2 9 0 .181 Les Miles . .LSU 2006 Fla Atlantic 5 7 0 .363 Joe Paterno . .Penn State 2007 Fla Atlantic 8 5 0 .667 2008 Fla Atlantic 7 6 0 .540 Steve Spurrier South Carolina (at Florida) 2009 Fla Atlantic 5 7 0 .420 Bob Stoops . .Oklahoma 2010 Fla Atlantic 4 6 0 .400 Nick Saban . .Alabama (and at LSU) 2011 Fla Atlantic 0 7 0 .000 Total: 27 years 157 147 3 .516 Schnellenberger Continued Coaching Career Highlights Coach and the program was recruiting its first was guided by two quarterbacks, but saw the • Four national collegiate football class. evolution of Rusty Smith, who would later championships (Alabama ’61, ’64, 65: That first class, along with some 150 become the first FAU player to be drafted by Miami ’83) more, held their first practice, in a junior col- the NFL. That experience paid dividends in • Seven NFL playoff teams (Miami Dolphins lege gymnasium, in sock, located just yards 2007 as Smith guided the Owls to an 8-5 ’70, ’71, ’72, ’76, ’79; Los Angeles Rams from where the new on-campus stadium record, the program’s first Sun Belt ’67, ’69) stands. The first fall, the team bused, daily, to Conference title and etched the program in the • Best record in NFL history as the Miami the newly constructed practice fields located annals of the NCAA record books as the Dolphins’ Offensive Coordinator (17-0 in behind the Tom Oxley Center, a building built fastest program to earn a bowl invitation. ’72) due to Schnellenberger’s $13 million fund rais- Proving it wasn't a fluke, the Owls made a • 1983 National Champions defeating ing effort. That road, a former military air repeat appearance in 2008 becoming the only Nebraska 31-30 in the 50th Anniversary strip, now lies beneath the on-campus stadi- team in the state of Florida to have back-to- Orange Bowl Game um’s turf. back bowl victories in 2007 and 2008. FAU • 1983 National Coach of the Year The program was born when the team also became the first Sun Belt Conference Special Honors, Awards took the field for its first outside practice, Aug. team to win back-to-back bowl games. What • 2010 MVP of UofL and UK named in his 12, 2000. FAU played its first scrimmage Sept. makes the bowl victories more impressive is honor 23, 2000, and took to the field Sept. 1, 2001. It that FAU became bowl eligible, in its rise to • 2008 Inducted into Palm Beach County only took two games for FAU to have its first Division I-A status in 2006 therefore the Owls Hall of Fame upset, defeating the No. 22 ranked team in the captured a bowl victory in two of the first • 2008 Head Coach of the Nation in Texas vs. country, 31-28. That first year the Owls fin- three seasons that they were part of the Bowl Nation Game ished 4-6 and would return nearly every play- Sub Division. • 2007 Sun Belt Conference Coach of the er. When you consider all the "firsts" that Year 2002 was a little more difficult as the Florida Atlantic University's football team has • 2007 Recognized for being in the players soon learned, predominately as sopho- accomplished, it is hard to believe.