Bulldogs unveil 2014 football schedule
SMITHFIELD, R.I. – Highlighted by a season-opening trip to Stony Brook and a home games with Maine and Bucknell, head coach Marty Fine is pleased to announce the 2014 Bryant University football schedule.
The 11-game slate includes six home games and six Northeast Conference tilts. Bryant is coming off a season in which they went 5-7 and 3-3 in NEC play. The 2014 schedule is also heavy on travel as the Black and Gold will make three trips of over 450 miles.
Bryant opens its 11th season under coach Fine on Thursday, August 28 at Stony Brook. The Bulldogs and Seawolves met last season, a 21-13 victory for SBU. The Black and Gold open their home schedule the following week as they host former NE-10 foe Merrimack on September 6. Bryant celebrates Homecoming and Reunion Weekend as it hosts CAA member Maine on September 13, the fourth-straight year the Bulldogs and Black Bears will meet on the gridiron.
The Bulldogs will then make their first long trek of the season as they head south to Lynchburg, Va., to take on Liberty on September 20. A member of the Big South, the Flames have won six conference titles in the last seven years and are coming off an 8-4 season in 2013. Bryant wraps up its non-conference schedule on October 4 as they welcome Bucknell to Bulldog Stadium. It will be the second meeting in program history between the two schools.
In search of its first NEC title, and the automatic bid to the FCS playoffs that comes with it, the Bulldogs open league play on October 18 with a trip to Loretto, Pa., to face Saint Francis U. Bryant welcomes Robert Morris (Oct. 25) and Central Connecticut (Nov. 1) in back-to-back weeks before making its third long excursion of the year, this time to Pittsburgh, Pa., to take on Duquesne (Nov. 8). The Bulldogs will face the reigning NEC champion Sacred Heart in Fairfield on Nov. 15 and wrap up league play at home against Wagner on Nov. 22.