Wednesday, May 22, 2013
By Glenn Jordan gjordan@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer
The University of Maine will will be on the road for four of its first five football games this fall, according to the schedule released Thursday.
Maine running back Nigel Jones breaks away from Georgia State’s Kail Singleton on the way to a 9-yard touchdown run in a game last year. The University of Maine will will be on the road for four of its first five football games this fall, according to the schedule released by the college Thursday afternoon.
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MAINE'S 2013 SCHEDULE
Aug. 31 at Norfolk State
Sept. 7 at Massachusetts
Sept. 14 Bryant
Sept. 21 at Northwestern
Sept. 28 at Richmond
Oct. 5 Delaware
Oct. 12 Bye
Oct. 19 William and Mary
Oct. 26 at Villanova
Nov. 2 Stony Brook
Nov. 9 at Albany
Nov. 16 Rhode Island
Nov. 23 at New Hampshire
Two of those games will be at Football Bowl Subdivision opponents; the Black Bears will receive a combined payment of $610,000.
UMass will host Maine on Sept. 7 at Gillette Stadium -- home of the New England Patriots -- in Foxborough, Mass. Two weeks later, Maine will travel to Illinois to play Northwestern, which is coming off a 10-3 season that included a Gator Bowl victory over Mississippi State.
"This schedule is one of, if not the most, challenging schedule a Black Bear team has ever played," said UMaine Coach Jack Cosgrove in a prepared statement. "For the first time, a Maine team will be playing two FBS teams, with the possibility of playing the highest-ranked FBS team ever in program history."
Maine's final eight games are against fellow Colonial Athletic Association members, culminating with rival New Hampshire on Nov. 23 in Durham.
"In addition to taking on a CAA schedule, which is always tough," Cosgrove said, "we will be playing Norfolk State for the first time and will continue our recently started rivalry with Bryant."
The Black Bears are coming off a 5-6 season. The schedule expands by one game this year because of where the Thanksgiving holiday falls.
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