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Bulls Announce 2007 Football Schedule

"It is exciting that we have an opportunity to play a school from a major conference at home in our home opener," head coach Turner Gill said. "I also think that it is important that we are playing our non-conference games against schools in the Northeast. It will give our players, many of whom are from the Northeast, an opportunity to play in front of family and friends on the road."

The Bulls will open the season with three straight road contests beginning with a game on Thursday, August 30 at Rutgers, which finished the 2006 season ranked 12th in the nation. Buffalo will travel to Temple for the Owls' first-ever Mid-American Conference game on September 8.

The Bulls will tangle with Penn State at historic Beaver Stadium on September 15. It will mark only the second meeting between the schools, the first coming back in 1900, which the Bulls won 10-0 in Buffalo. This will be the Bulls' first ever trip to “Happy Valley,” and the 107,282-seat Beaver Stadium will be the largest facility in which a UB football team has ever played.

"This will be a great opportunity for our players and coaches to go up against Joe Paterno - one of the greatest coaches of all time," Gill said.

Buffalo's home-opener will be on September 22 when the Bulls battle Baylor of the Big 12 at UB Stadium. The Bulls have only played one school from the Big 12 in their football history – Iowa State in 1968 – a 28-10 loss.

The Bulls will play at Ball State on September 29, before hosting back-to-back MAC foes in Ohio (Oct. 6) and Toledo (Oct. 13). It will be the first ever trip to UB Stadium for the Toledo Rockets.

On October 20, the Bulls will play their second BIG EAST opponent of the season when they travel to Syracuse. It will mark the third meeting with the Orange in the past four years.

The final four games of the season will pit the Bulls against fellow MAC East Division foes as they host Akron (Oct. 27), play at Miami (OH) (Nov. 3), host Bowling Green (Nov. 17) and wrap up the regular season at Kent State on November 24.

Click here to see the Bulls' complete 2007 schedule