Marshall announces football series with Bowling Green

Falcons to play at Marshall in 2009 and Herd to make trip to BGSU in 2010

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Marshall University Director of Athletics Bob Marcum announced on April 23 that Marshall will play at two game football series with Bowling Green beginning in 2009.

Bowling Green will travel to Huntington on September, 26 of 2009 and the Thundering Herd will travel to Bowling Green on September 18, 2010.

The home and home series will renew the rivalry the two schools shared while Marshall was a member of the Mid-American Conference. Marshall and Bowling Green have met 27 times on the gridiron and the Falcons own a 20-7 record in the series that dates back to 1954.

Marshall won four out of the last six meetings between the two schools after Marshall re-joined the MAC in 1997. The Falcons took a 56-35 in the last game played between the two on November 13, 2004, at Bowling Green.

The addition of Bowling Green gives Marshall three non-conference games for 2009 and completes the 2010 non-conference schedule.

Marshall’s future non-conference schedules through 2011 are below. Home games are in bold.

2008:   
Sept. 6 at Wisconsin
Sept. 13 at West Virginia
Oct. 4 vs. Cincinnati

2009:     
Sept. 12 at Virginia Tech
Sept. 26 vs. Bowling Green
Oct. 3 West Virginia*

*- game in Huntington or Morgantown.
Winner of two of the first three games in series gets home game in 2009.

2010:   
Sept. 4 at Ohio State
Sept. 11 vs. West Virginia
Sept. 18 at Bowling Green
Sept. 25 vs. Ohio

2011:   
Sept. 3 at West Virginia
Sept. 10 vs. Miami (Fla.)
Sept. 17 at Ohio
Sept. 24 vs. Virginia Tech