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2021 UMass Minutemen Football Team
The 2021 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Minutemen played their home games at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium and competed as an independent. They were led by third-year head coach Walt Bell; UMass fired Bell after nine games and offensive line coach Alex Miller took over as interim head coach. Schedule Notable players RB Ellis Merriweather QB Brady Olson WR Rico Arnold References UMass UMass Minutemen football seasons UMass Minutemen football The UMass Minutemen football team represents the University of Massachusetts in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Massachusetts is the fourth oldest program in FBS. The Minutemen compete as an FBS independent. Since 1965, th ...
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Walt Bell
Walter A. Bell IV (born June 7, 1984) is an American football coach and former wide receiver. He is the offensive coordinator of the Indiana Hoosiers football team. He played college football at Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football, Middle Tennessee for coach Andy McCollum (American football coach), Andy McCollum from 2003 to 2006. He then served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Florida State Seminoles football, Florida State Seminoles, Maryland Terrapins football, Maryland Terrapins, and Arkansas State Red Wolves football, Arkansas State Red Wolves. Bell was also the head coach for the UMass Minutemen football, UMass Minutemen from 2019 until 2021. Playing career Bell was born in Dickson, Tennessee, to Walter "Butch" Bell and Jane Harper. Walter, like his father and grandfather, was a physician. Walt's parents separated within a year; he was raised by Walter and Walter's second wife, Mary, whom Walter married when Walt was in elementary school. While Walt ...
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Brooks Stadium
Brooks Stadium is a 21,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Conway, South Carolina. It is home to the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team at Coastal Carolina University. The facility opened in 2003 and is named in honor of Coby Garrett Brooks and Boni Belle Brooks, children of Robert Brooks. Brooks was a Loris, South Carolina native and was the chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. The stadium is notable for its teal artificial turf. History and renovation While the current stadium dates only to 2003, the site has a considerably longer football history. In a 2020 interview, Coastal athletic director Matt Hogue, who began working at the school in 1997 as Coastal's basketball play-by-play announcer, told ESPN journalist Ryan McGee, Groundbreaking for Brooks Stadium was held on July 30, 2002. Phase I of the stadium construction contained 6,408 seats, while the foundation and infrastructure of the stadium was designed to support future expansion to 20,000 seats. The stadium ...
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2021 Rhode Island Rams Football Team
The 2021 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in the 2021 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Rams, led by eighth-year head coach Jim Fleming, played their home games at Meade Stadium. On October 11, the Rams were named 12th in national FCS polls, the highest they have been ranked in 20 years. Andre Bibeault was named the Special Teams Player of the Week by the CAA. Previous season The Rams finished the 2020 season with a record of 2-1 (2-1 in the CAA). They finished in fourth place. Rhode Island started the season unranked, but climbed as high as No. 18 after a 2-0 start by week three. Rhode Island and the CAA would cancel the season after week three due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team finished the 2020 season unranked. Schedule Game summaries Bryant At Albany At Brown Stony Brook No. 9 Delaware At Towson At No. 5 Villanova ...
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ESPN3
ESPN3 (formerly ESPN360 and ESPN3.com) is an online streaming service owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and Hearst Communications (which holds the remaining 20% interest), that provides live streams and replays of global sports events to sports fans in the United States. History The use of the name ESPN3 was discussed as early as 1996 for the channel that would eventually become known as ESPNews. The website began in 2005 as ESPN360.com, a mostly on-demand video website. In September 2007, ESPN360.com shifted away from on-demand content such as studio shows and shifted toward placing "emphasis on live events". On April 4, 2010, ESPN360.com re-launched as ESPN3.com. On August 31, 2011, the network became simply known as ESPN3, and was incorporated into the WatchESPN platform, which also carries simulcasts of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Goal Line, ...
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Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. First settled in 1757 by ferry owner John Lynch (1740–1820), John Lynch, the city's population was 79,009 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River, Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills" or the "Hill City". In the 1860s, Lynchburg was the only city in Virginia that was not recaptured by the Union (American Civil War), Union before the end of the American Civil War. Lynchburg lies at the center of a wider Lynchburg metropolitan area, metropolitan area close to the geographic center of Virginia. It is the fifth-largest Metropolitan statistical area, MSA in Virginia, with a population of 261,593. It is the site of several institutions of higher education, including Virginia University of Lynchburg, Randolph College, University of L ...
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Williams Stadium
Arthur L. Williams Stadium is a 25,000-seat football stadium located on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. The stadium was built in 1989 and plays host to Liberty Flames football, which is a part of the NCAA Division I - Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). A new field house has recently been constructed at the north end of the stadium. This new facility houses a new home locker room, coaches offices, meeting rooms and training facility as well as a weight room. In the 2009 off season, Liberty University added a video scoreboard on the north end of the field. The video scoreboard measured tall and wide. This video board was replaced by a massive new high-definition video board in time for the 2018 football season. In September 2011, a ribbon video board was added to the facade of the upper deck. This too was replaced by a state-of-the-art ribbon video board on both the eastern and western facades of the upper deck in 2018. The stadium was named in 1 ...
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2021 Liberty Flames Football Team
The 2021 Liberty Flames football team represented Liberty University in the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Hugh Freeze and played their home games at Williams Stadium in Lynchburg, Virginia. The Flames competed as an FBS independent. They finished the regular season 7–5. The Flames received an invite to the LendingTree Bowl where they played Eastern Michigan, winning 56–20. Previous season In a season limited due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Flames finished the 2020 season 10–1; the team's only loss was a one point loss at NC State. They received a bid to the Cure Bowl where they defeated no. 12 Coastal Carolina in overtime. They finished the season ranked no. 17 in the AP Poll and no. 18 in the Coaches Poll. The 2020 team was the first to win ten games since 2008 and the first since the program joined the FBS in 2018. Schedule Source Roster Game summaries Campbell At Troy Old Dominion At Sy ...
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Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, Florida, Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2020, the population was 196,169, making it the List of municipalities in Florida, 8th-largest city in the U.S state of Florida, and the List of United States cities by population, 126th-largest city in the United States. The population of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, Tallahassee metropolitan area was 385,145 . Tallahassee is the largest city in the Big Bend (Florida), Florida Big Bend and Florida Panhandle region, and the main center for trade and agriculture in the Big Bend (Florida), Florida Big Bend and Southwest Georgia regions. With a student population exceeding 70,000, Tallahassee is a college town, home to Florida State University, ranked the nation's 19th-best public university by ''U.S. News & World R ...
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Doak Campbell Stadium
Doak S. Campbell Stadium (in full Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium), popularly known as "Doak", is a football stadium on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. It is the home field of the Florida State Seminoles football team of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Opened in 1950, it was originally named Doak Campbell Stadium in honor of Doak S. Campbell, the university's first president. On November 20, 2004, the Florida Legislature added longtime head football coach Bobby Bowden to the stadium name to become Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium. A petition in June 2020 sought to remove Campbell's name, as he resisted racial integration while president of Florida State University. FSU President John E. Thrasher asked Athletics Director David Coburn "to immediately review this issue and make recommendations to me." As of June 2022, no recommendations have been made. The stadium is part of the University Center complex, a mixed-use ...
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2021 Florida State Seminoles Football Team
The 2021 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University during the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Seminoles played their home games at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida, and competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They were led by head coach Mike Norvell, in his second season. Schedule Source: Game summaries vs Notre Dame vs Jacksonville State At Wake Forest vs Louisville vs Syracuse At North Carolina vs UMass At Clemson vs NC State vs Miami (FL) At Boston College At Florida Rankings Coaching staff Honors Players drafted into the NFL References {{Florida State Seminoles football navbox Florida State Florida State Seminoles football seasons Florida State Seminoles football The Florida State Seminoles football team represents Florida State University (variously Florida State or FSU) in the sport of Ameri ...
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UConn–UMass Football Rivalry
The UConn–UMass football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the UConn Huskies football team of the University of Connecticut and the UMass Minutemen football team of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The rivalry was dormant from the 2000 season, when UConn moved to FBS, until 2012, when UMass traveled to Rentschler Field to play the Huskies in the season opener. History The first game played between the two schools took place on November 6, 1897, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts won 36–0. At the time, UMass was known as Massachusetts Agricultural College and Connecticut was officially Storrs Agricultural College. They had formed a loose association with other public colleges in New England such as present day New Hampshire and Rhode Island for the purpose of scheduling football matchups between the schools.http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/conn/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2015-16/misc_non_event/part5-15.pdf The colleges continued to sch ...
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2021 UConn Huskies Football Team
The 2021 UConn Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut (UConn) in the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Huskies competed as an independent, having left the American Athletic Conference following the 2019 season. They played their home games at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut. On September 5, following the team's 38–28 loss to FCS-school Holy Cross, head coach Randy Edsall announced he would be retiring at the end of the season. The following day, the school announced that Edsall had resigned effective immediately and defensive coordinator Lou Spanos was named the interim head coach. On November 11, former UCLA coach Jim L. Mora was named the school's 31st head coach beginning with the 2022 season. Shortly after the hire he helped serve as an offensive assistant for the remainder of the season. The team finished the season 1–11. Previous season The Huskies finished the 2019 season 2–10, 0–8 in American Athletic ...
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