Release #4 FSU vs. Colorado September 27, 2008 3:30 p.m. River City Showdown BOWDEN SET TO COACH 500th CAREER GAME VS. BUFFS ACC STANDINGS FLORIDA STATE (2-1) VS. COLORADO (3-0) ATLANTIC DIVISION TV: ABC (Live/Regional) -- TV: Sun Sports (Tape De- RADIO: ISP Sports Net- ACC OVERALL DIVISION Joe Tessitore (play-by-play), lay - Sunday 7:00 pm & work -- Gene Clemson 1-0 2-1 1-0 Rod Gilmore (analyst) and Monday at 12:00 pm) --Paul Deckerhoff (play-by- Wake Forest 1-0 3-0 1-0 Todd Harris (sideline). Kennedy (play-by-play), play) and William Floyd Maryland 0-0 3-1 0-0 Keith Jones (analyst) and (color) and ESPN Radio BC 0-1 2-1 0-0 Tom Block (sideline) nationally. Florida State 0-1 2-1 0-1 NC State 0-1 2-2 0-1 READ ALL ABOUT IT INSIDE The Seminoles and Bowden have fared well versus Big 12 members. FSU is 30-13 all-time versus the conference and Bowden is 21-6. Only two COASTAL DIVISION schools in the Big 12 have ever defeated a Bobby Bowden coached Seminole ACC OVERALL DIVISION team. (PAGE 3) Virginia Tech 2-0 3-1 2-0 Under Bobby Bowden, the Seminoles are 8-1 in the River City. Overall Georgia Tech 1-1 3-1 0-1 FSU is 9-1-1 all-time when playing in Jacksonville. The Seminoles have Duke 0-0 2-1 0-0 won six games in a row after making the short trip east on I-10 since a loss Miami 0-0 2-1 0-0 to Southern Miss and Brett Favre in 1989. (PAGE 4) Virginia 0-0 1-2 0-0 Florida State's Bobby Bowden reaches a milestone against Colorado as UNC 0-1 2-1 0-1 he will coach his 500th career collegiate football game versus the Buffalos. Bowden is set to become only the third coach in college football history to WHAT’S INSIDE? coach in 500 or more games. (PAGE 5) Media Information ____________ 2 In his 500 games coached, Coach Bowden has faced teams from 31 Series Information ___________ 3 different states. (PAGE 5) Top 25 Polls _________________ 4 Coaches Notes ______________ 5 Florida State has scored 99 more points than its opponents, out rushed Offensive Team Notes _________ 8 its foes by a 4:1 margin, outgained opponents by a 2:1 margin and has Offensive Player Notes ________ 10 scored 16 TDs compared to just one for their three opponents. (PAGE 8) Seminole Sidelines ___________ 11 Florida State is once again leading the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring Defensive Notes _____________ 15 offense. The Seminoles’ average of 39.3 points per game is more than five Special Teams Notes __________ 17 points ahead of Clemson for the top spot in the statistical rankings. (PAGE Honors & Awards_____________ 18 Team Notes _________________ 19 8) Career Starts ________________ 19 Sophomore quarterback D'Vontrey Richardson led the Seminoles in both The Last Time It Happened_____ 21 rushing and passing against Wake Forest. It marked the first time this Depth Chart -- Off & Special Tms 24 season and the second time since Nov. 10, 2007 that the same player led Injury Report ________________ 24 Florida State in rushing and passing in the same game. (PAGE 10) Depth Chart -- Def. ___________ 25 Quarterbacks D'Vontrey Richardson (152 yards on 17 carries) and Game-by-Game Starts ________ 25 Christian Ponder (75 yards on 12 carries) have combined for 227 of the Alphabetical Roster ___________ 26 Seminoles' 589 rushing yards. (PAGE 10) Numerical Roster _____________ 27 Additional Player Bios _________ 28 Junior Rod Owens is one of three players (also Greg Carr and Taiwan Game Recaps _______________ 30 Easterling) who has caught at least one pass in each of the Seminoles' first three games of the 2008 season. (PAGE 14) 2008 SCHEDULE Freshman wide receiver Taiwan Easterling has caught a team-high eight Day Date Opponent Score TV passes for a team-high 86 yards in the last two games versus Chattanooga and Wake Forest. (PAGE 14) Sat. Sept. 6 Western Carolina 69-0 PPV Sat. Sept. 13 Chattanooga 46-7 ESPNU Shawn Powell is off to an excellent start to his FSU career. The freshman Sat. Sept. 20 Wake Forest 3-12 ESPN2 punter is second in the ACC with a 44.5 average but he is also getting a lot of help from Jody Allen’s coverage units. The Seminoles rank second in the Sat. Sept. 27 Colorado (Jax) 3:30 ABC nation in net punting. (PAGE 17) Sat. Oct. 4 at Miami Senior Graham Gano got the Seminoles on the scoreboard for the first Thur. Oct. 16 at NC State 7:30 ESPN time versus Wake Forest, connecting on a 37-yard field goal in the third Sat. Oct. 25 Virginia Tech quarter. It was Gano’s first successful field goal attempt. (PAGE 17) Sat. Nov. 1 Georgia Tech On opening weekend 37 former Seminoles were on NFL rosters second Sat. Nov. 8 Clemson only to another ACC school (Miami - 44). FSU leapt over Ohio State to Sat. Nov. 15 Boston College claim second place. (PAGE 20) Sat. Nov. 22 at Maryland Sat. Nov. 29 Florida Page 2/MEDIA INFORMATION 11/2, 11/23. The call following NC State will be on Friday, 10/17 at 4:00 p.m. The call-in number is (850) 644-2255. SIX DAYS TO TALK TO THE SEMINOLES Monday Press conferences with coordinators and QB. COLLEGEPRESSBOX.COM Coach Bowden, players and assistants Again this year, the ACC has partnered with the FWAA for their available following late practice. web service, collegepressbox.com, a media web portal for ACC Tuesday Coach Bowden, players and assistants Football. This is a football-only site which assists the media, both available following practice. locally and nationally, in covering ACC football on a more "user- Wednesday Coach Bowden, players and assistants friendly” basis. Please contact Elliott Finebloom available following practice. ([email protected]) for username and password for this Thursday Players and assistants available following excellent site. practice. Coach Bowden usually gone before the end of practice for his TV show. FSU FOOTBALL WEEKLY SATELLITE FEED Saturday Post-game interviews. The FSU Athletics Satellite Feed began Tuesday, September 2nd, Sunday Select players available at the athletic center. and continues on Tuesdays through out the fall (with a couple of Coach Bowden available either at breakfast exceptions noted below). Here are the coordinates: (home games) or on a conference call (away games). FSU Athletics Satellite Feed Tuesdays 16:30 E.S.T.-16:45 E.S.T. FSU SPORTS INFORMATION Starting 9/2/2008 Media interviews with all FSU players MUST be arranged through AMC-16 the Sports Information Office. Contact Elliott Finebloom (850) KU Band, Transponder 14 Analog 644-0615 to arrange interviews with players or assistant coaches. 85 degrees west If you are requesting coach Bowden, contact Sports Information Downlink: 11980 MHz, Horizontal Director Tina Dechausay (850) 644-1065. Please give at least one day‘s notice when requesting players for mid-week interviews. There will be no feed on Tuesday October 7th, as that is the open Player’s phone numbers will not be given directly to the media week on the football schedule. Also we were not able to secure and players should not be called directly. satellite space/time on Tuesday, November 4th due to election day coverage. In fact, that whole week is bad for obvious rea- MONDAYS WITH THE SEMINOLES sons. We have booked time at 09:00 E.S.T. on Wednesday, No- 1:30 pm Mickey Andrews available in the media vember 5th (same coordinates). work room (2nd floor Moore Athletic Center) 2:00 pm Jimbo Fisher available in the media work ACC FOOTBALL WEEKLY SATELLITE FEED room (2nd floor Moore Athletic Center) The Atlantic Coast Conference will be providing a 90-minute sat- 2:30 pm Starting QB available in the media work ellite feed every Wednesday during the 2008 ACC Football Sea- room (2nd floor Moore Athletic Center) son. The feed will consist of sound from head coaches and play- ers of each school, as well as game highlights from the previous If you are unable to attend these conferences, there are three week. Here are the feed particulars: options to participate in, watch and/or listen to the press confer- ences. Dates: August 27 thru November 26 (Wednesdays) 1) For the first time this year, we are offering the media Time: 2:30 pm-4:00 pm EST an opportunity to call in and listen and/or ask questions. The Satellite: AMC3, Transponder 19 call-in number for this call is (850) 644-2255 (CALL). Please (C-band) 87 degrees West wait until instructed to ask questions. If there is any problem Polarity: Horizontal logging onto the conference call, call Elliott Finebloom on his cell Downlink Frequency: 4080 MHz phone at 850-694-1768. Bandwidth: 36 MHz 2) Video of the press conferences will be streamed live Audio: 6.2/6.8 MHz online at Seminoles.com. The live press conferences will be avail- To contact ACC Video Services during these feeds please call: able for free. Once the press conferences end, you will need to 336-369-1205. Microspace can re-feed (at your expense). Con- have a subscription service to view them. tact them at 919-850-4565. 3) MP3's of the entire press conferences will be available online at Seminoles.com as well for no charge and will be avail- ACC FOOTBALL WEEKLY TELECONFERENCE able at anytime.