ESPN2 to Televise West Virginia at Marshall Football Game

Kickoff of Second Friends of Coal Bowl Set for 11:10 a.m.

ESPN has announced that the Saturday, September 8, the Friends of Coal Bowl between West Virginia and Marshall will be televised by ESPN2 with kickoff scheduled for 11:10 a.m. at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.

The second Friends of Coal Bowl marks West Virginia’s first football visit to Huntington since 1915 and home field advantage for the 2009 season will be on the line. The two schools are in the second year of a seven-year contract that states the winner of two of the first three games in the series will earn home field advantage in 2009. WVU took a 42-10 decision last year in Morgantown.

West Virginia’s two largest state universities have met on the gridiron only six times in history and WVU is 6-0 in those contests. However, the Mountaineers have never played at Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards Stadium where the Thundering Herd is an impressive 109-11 (.908) since the facility opened in 1991.

Marshall season tickets are currently on sale now and can be purchased by calling 1-800-THE-HERD or going online to www.Herdzone.com. Marshall has already surpassed its season ticket record and tickets are going fast. Fewer than 6,000 seats remain for the season and once those tickets are sold there will be no individual game tickets available.