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FB Contacts: Steve Weakland, Roger Kirk Oct. 21, 2006 2006 Fresno State Schedule Sept. 1 • Nevada (ESPN) W, 28-19 Sept. 9 Oregon (ESPN2) L, 31-24 Bulldog Game Notes Sept. 16 at Washington (BSN) L, 21-20 Sept. 30 Colorado State (BSN) L, 35-23 Fresno State (1-5, 1-2) vs. No. 14 LSU (5-2, 2-2) Oct. 7 • at Utah State (BSN) L, 13-12 Date: Saturday, Oct. 21 Oct. 14 • Hawaii [Homecoming](BSN) L, 68-37 Oct. 21 at LSU (ESPN) 6 p.m. Kickoff: 6 p.m. PT Nov. 1 • at Boise State (ESPN) 5 p.m. Site: Tiger Stadium (92,400); Baton Rouge, La. Nov. 11 • New Mexico State 2 p.m. Radio: KMJ (AM 580); Dog Talk at 4 p.m.; Countdown to Kickoff (5:30 p.m.) Nov. 18 • Idaho 2 p.m. Play-by-Play: Bill Woodward; Analyst: Mark Barsotti; Sideline: Ralph Wood Nov. 24 • at Louisiana Tech (ESPN2) 6 p.m. Dec. 2 • at San Jose State 3 p.m. KGST ESPN Deportes (1600 AM) in Spanish Home games in Bold Times are Pacific Play-by-Play: Jess Gonzales; Analysts: Sam Sosa, Doug Kessler Dates and Times are Tentative and Subject to Change Television: ESPN2 BSN - Bulldog Sports Network games on KFRE CW Play-by-Play: Ron Franklin; Analyst: Ed Cunningham; Sideline: Dr. Jerry Punch 59 (Cable channel 5) Dogs Headed to Bayou 2006 WAC Standings Fresno State returns to the road this week, traveling to Baton Rouge to take on No. 14 WAC Overall LSU in a game that will be televised live on ESPN2. It’s the first meeting between the two WL WL schools. Boise State 3 0 7 0 Idaho 3 0 4 3 San Jose State 1 0 4 1 Rocky Road Hawai’i 2 1 4 2 The Dogs begin a tough road stretch against two team ranked in the Top 20 and have a Fresno State 1 2 1 5 Utah State 1 2 1 6 combined record of 12-2. Fresno State travels to No. 14 LSU on Saturday and then are Nevada 0 2 3 3 at WAC rival Boise State, ranked No. 17, on Nov. 1. Both games will be nationally New Mexico State 0 2 2 4 televised by ESPN2 and ESPN, respectively. Louisiana Tech 0 2 1 5 WAC Update 2006 WAC Schedule Boise State at Idaho, 2 p.m. Following Boise State’s convincing win over New Mexico State Sunday night, the Utah State at Louisiana Tech, 4 p.m. Broncos kept pace with upstart Idaho atop the WAC rankings. The Vandals, at 3-0, beat Hawai’i at New Mexico State, 5 p.m. Louisiana Tech last weekend 24-14. San Jose State won its first WAC game with a 21- San Jose State at Nevada, 4 p.m. 14 win over Utah State. Fresno State at LSU, 6 p.m. Practices and Interviews Come Home Soon Please call the Fresno State Athletics Media Rela- Fresno State does not return home for 27 days when it hosts New Mexico State on Nov. tions office to arrange interviews with head coach 11. The Dog have two home games remaining, each beginning at 2 p.m. Tickets for the Pat Hill, the staff and players. Bulldog practices are remaining home games are available on www.gobulldogs.com. closed. Interviews may be conducted 15 minutes prior to practices or immediately after each practices Tuesday-Thursday. Players are not available for Dogs in SEC Country interviews on the day prior to games. Fresno State is making its third trip to an SEC venue when it travels to LSU this week.The Dogs are 0-2 against teams from the Southeastern Conference, losing at Tennessee 24- Pat Hill Weekly Media Conference 6 in 2003 and at Auburn 62-0 in 1996. Pat Hill holds a weekly media conference in the Josephine Theater of the Duncan Building each Monday at 11 a.m. during the season. The video of About the Tigers the media conference is available live on LSU enters the week with a 5-2 overall record and a 2-2 mark in conference games. Both www.gobulldogs.com. The media conference will be of LSU’s losses were at the hands of Top 5 teams, Auburn, 7-3, and Florida, 23-10. Both archived on www.gobulldogs.com later in the day. of those games were on the road. In their five wins, however, the Tigers have scored at Ticket Information least 45 points, including a 49-0 win over Kentucky last weekend at home. LSU plays For information on football tickets for 2006, please eight home games this season and the Fresno State game will be their sixth. The Tiger contact the Fresno State Athletics Ticket Office at offense is led by outstanding quarterback JaMarcus Russell, who has thrown for 1,700 (559) 278-DOGS or go online to gobulldogs.com. yards and 13 touchdowns, and a dynamic duo of backs, Charles Scott and Jacob Hester. Single game tickets are available for the remaining They have combined for 497 yards and 11 touchdowns this season. LSU’s defense has home games. been very tough, allowing just 60 points through seven games. The Tigers, allowing less than three yards per run, have 41 tackles for loss and 22 quarterback sacks this season. LSU plays in historic Tiger Stadium and night games in Death Valley provide one of the nation’s best collegiate football game atmospheres. Louisiana x 2 This is the first of two road games in Louisiana this season. The Bulldogs travel to Louisiana Tech on November 24. It marks the first time the Dogs have had two road games in another state since 2003 when they played two in Texas (SMU and UTEP). Fresno State also played two games in Oregon in 2002 (Oregon and Oregon State) and again in 2001 when it played twice in Colorado (Colorado and Colorado State). Tonight’s Game Head Coach Pat Hill This is the final non-conference game for both teams. .the game is the latest start time All of the credit for the resurgence of Bulldog of any in the nation. .Fresno State is making its first of two trips to Louisiana this season. football can be traced to head coach Pat Hill. Hill took The Dogs will play at Louisiana Tech on Nov. 24 (ESPN2). .this is the first meeting in the over a declining program and within three years won series and just the third time Fresno State has played a team from the SEC. .the Tigers a championship and guided his team to a bowl game. More importantly, Hill infused academic integrity to last played a Caifornia team in 1999, when it defeated WAC foe San Jose State 29-21. the program. Since his arrival, the team GPA rose . .the Tigers have never lost to WAC school and are 21-1 against current teams from the from a 2.21 to 2.87. WAC. The only loss was to La. Tech, which happened prior to the Bulldogs becoming a In Hill’s third season, the Bulldogs earned a share WAC member when it beat the Tigers. The last time the Tigers played a WAC school was of a WAC championship, made their first bowl appear- in the National Championship season of 2003, when they beat Louisiana Tech 49-10. ance since 1993 and produced a league-best six first- team All-WAC players. In addition, Fresno State led .sophomore quarterback Sean Norton will get his first career start tonight. He last started the WAC academic scholars with 14 and produced a game in 2003 at Hart High School in Newhall, Calif., guiding his team to the CIF Division the program’s first Academic All-American, Payton II Championship with a 25-7 win over Mission Viejo, where he threw three touchdowns, Williams. That was just a start. Since then, Fresno one to current Bulldog team mate Kevin Ciccone. .the Dogs are expected to get standout State’s NCAA Academic Progress Rate ranks in the receiver Paul Williams back on the field tonight. Williams has missed the last two games top 10 percent of all Division I-A programs and is the fourth-highest of all schools in the west. with an injury. .the Dogs play four of their last six games on the road, including the next Under his direction, Fresno State built a new foot- game (Nov. 1) at Boise State. .with a capacity crowd expected tonight, it will be the third- ball practice facility that rivals any NFL franchise. One largest crowd to watch a Fresno State game. The others were Tennessee (103,860) in of the most visible signs of improvement has been in 2003 and Ohio State (96,583) in 2000. The last time the Dogs played in front of a crowd the Duncan Building training room, offices and locker of more than 90,000 fans was Nov. 19, 2005 at USC (90,007). .the Dogs have a had a room, which was modified providing all student-ath- letes with a state of the art complex. 100-yard rusher in five if six games this season, but will face its stiffest test as LSU is Over the last seven seasons, Hill is averaging ranked No. 8 in the nations allowing 72 yards per game. nearly nine wins per year, and led the Bulldogs to a No. 22 final national ranking in 2004, the highest for the Norton In Action school since 1993. Fresno State’s current bowl streak of seven years is in thelongest current streak in the Sophomore quarterback Sean Norton, who will get his first career start tonight, played in west.