University of Richmond Athletics
Richmond Football Announces 2010 Schedule
Jan. 18, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND - With the kickoff at new Robins Stadium less than eight months away, the University of Richmond has announced its 2010 football schedule. The 11-game slate begins Sept. 4 at Virginia, with the home opener set for Sept. 18 versus Elon. Richmond has six home games and faces four playoff teams to begin the era of new head coach Latrell Scott.
Game times and television broadcast information will be announced this summer.
Richmond's annual Homecoming game is Oct. 23 vs. Towson; Family Weekend is Sept. 25 vs. Delaware; while fall break occurs with the Spiders at New Hampshire (Oct. 9).
Construction is progressing quickly on the Spiders' new $25-million home that brings Richmond Football on-campus for the first time in more than eight decades. Although the 2010 Spring Game will be played at University of Richmond Stadium (April 10, 2010 at 2 p.m.), the 2009 CAA Football Champions closed the doors on their home of the past 81 years in December with a loss to Appalachian State in the NCAA Quarterfinals that ended an 11-2 campaign.
Elon is slated as the first-ever Robins Stadium foe on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010 - a team that Richmond defeated 16-13 in the NCAA First Round at UR Stadium in 2009. The Spiders have defeated the Phoenix in each of the last two seasons and are 3-0 against them all-time.
But the season-opener at Virginia and a bye week precede the Robins Stadium opener and the storylines will run deep when the Spiders travel across I-64 for the match-up with the Cavaliers on Sept. 4, putting Richmond's 12-game road winning streak on the line.
Scott, who was named Richmond's 34th head football coach Dec. 15, 2009, was the wide receivers coach at Virginia last season and he replaced former head coach Mike London. London accepted the same position at UVa in December and brought three former Richmond assistants with him, while four former Cavalier staffers followed Scott to the West End. The last time Richmond played Virginia was to open the National Championship campaign of 2008 -- London's first year with the Spiders after serving as the Cavaliers defensive coordinator.
Richmond plays two more home games following the Elon tilt, hosting Delaware in the CAA Football opener (Sept. 25) on Family Weekend and finishing the non-conference schedule with Coastal Carolina (Oct. 2).
The full conference swing commences Oct. 9 at New Hampshire and Richmond returns to New England the following weekend at Massachusetts. The Spiders are then home for three of the final five regular-season games to battle Towson (Oct. 23) on Homecoming, James Madison (Nov. 6) and Rhode Island (Nov. 13).
The final two road showdowns could prove to be pivotal contests versus 2009 National Champion Villanova on Oct. 30 and NCAA Semifinalist William & Mary in the battle for the Capital Cup on Nov. 20.
A new decade of Richmond Football opens in 2010 -- the 128th campaign in program history -- with the Spiders' coming off the team's most-successful 10-year span ever. Richmond won 58 percent of its games between 2000 and 2009 (72-52) -- including a 50-17 mark over the last five years, captured the 2008 National Championship, won conference titles in 2000, 2005, 2007 and 2009 and made five Playoff appearances (2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009).
Notes: Richmond carries a 12-game road winning streak into 2010, which ranks as the longest in the FCS and the second-longest in the nation (Boise State, 13)... Richmond plays six regular-season home games for the first time since 2006 and just the fourth time in the last 10 years... The combined 2009 record of the Spiders' 2010 opponents is 72-59 (.550), which includes 14-1 Villanova, 10-3 New Hampshire and 11-3 William & Mary... Four of the Spiders' opponents reached the 2009 NCAA Playoffs: Elon (First Round), UNH (Quarterfinals), Villanova (National Champions), William & Mary (Semifinals)... The Oct. 2 game with Coastal Carolina marks the first meeting between the two... Due to both Northeastern and Hofstra dropping their football programs, CAA Football plays a one-division format of 10 teams in 2010 and the Spiders play every league team except Maine... The 2010 season marks the 128th year of Richmond Football.