Falcons have 4 bowl teams on tap for '06

4/5/2006

BOWLING GREEN - Four teams that played in bowl games last season are on Bowling Green State University's 2006 football schedule, which was released yesterday.

The Falcons open the year with Wisconsin at Cleveland Browns Stadium on Sept. 2 and also play bowl participants Ohio State, Akron and the University of Toledo.

At least three of the Falcons' games will be nationally televised. The Oct. 19 game, at Central Michigan will be on ESPNU, the last two games of the season, against Miami on Nov. 15 and UT on Nov. 21, will be on ESPN2.

Last season BGSU didn't have a home game until October. This year, two of the Falcons' four games at Doyt Perry Stadium are in September, against Buffalo on Sept. 9 and Kent State on Sept. 23.

BGSU has one Perry Stadium game in October, against Eastern Michigan on Oct. 14, and one in November, against Miami on Nov. 15.

- Maureen Fulton