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The Buffalo Bulls football team is the football team representing the University at Buffalo. The Bulls play in the Mid-American Conference, and are coached by Turner Gill.
[edit] Team History
UB offered Football until 1970, and then reintroduced the sport in 1977. In 1994, the school made the jump to Division 1-AA, and in 1999, moved up to 1-A, now the Bowl Subdivision.
[edit] 1999-Present: Division 1-A Football Bowl Subdivision
In 1999, the Bulls moved to their current conference, the Mid-American Conference. They retained their head coach from their 1-AA seasons, Craig Cirbus. After a few years of dismal results, the team hired Jim Hofher from Division 1-AA Cornell University to be the head coach. However, Hofher's teams were marked by poor discipline and lack of effort, and won only 8 games during his five seasons at UB.
In early December 2005, Hofher was replaced by Green Bay Packers assistant coach and former Heisman Trophy candidate Turner Gill. The former Nebraska University quarterback has led a remarkable turnaround very quickly, helping the team to a 2-10 (1-7) record in 2006 and a much better record 5-7 (5-3 MAC and divisional co-champions) in 2007, highlighted by their playing Big Ten powerhouse Penn State competitively for the first half (Penn State finished #25), even though they lost 45-24. For updates on the current team, see the link above.
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