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08/21/22 - Max Michel, rSr/2024, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALLSTATE AFCA GOOD WORKS TEAM NOMINEE: Max Michel, University at Buffalo,...A native of New Jersey, Michel quickly embraced the Queen City. He has worked with the Buffalo City Mission, organizing a coat drive in December, collecting coats, jackets, gloves and hats. In its first year, the coat drive resulted in over 50 coats and other warm items of clothing being donated to the Buffalo City Mission. He also donates his time volunteering at the Buffalo City Mission's kitchen, helping prepare food, emptying the garbage and whatever else he can do to help. Michel is a three-year letterwinner for the Bulls. He is coming off his most productive season, starting the first eight games of the season and totaling 36 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, four sacks, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery. - Buffalo Football

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OLB Max Michel, Buffalo
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08/09/22 - James Patterson, rSr/2023, Buffalo + More +

James Patterson began his fifth season with the Bulls when they opened preseason practices Thursday at UB Stadium in preparation for their season opener at noon Sept. 3 at Maryland. The linebacker from Glenn Dale, Md., is using his extra year of eligibility, granted by the NCAA in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. He didn't want to leave the program after an uncharacteristic 4-8 season, either - UB's first under-.500 season since 2016, when the Bulls were 2-10. "4-8 is not a good look," Patterson said. "That's not been the known, that's not been the recent for Buffalo football. Since I've been here, we've always been to a MAC championship game or to a bowl game, so that's the expectation. We want to keep rising, and try to go to a New Year's Six bowl. That's always been the goal, to be a top 25 team, and to make it even better."

Patterson led UB and was second in the Mid-American Conference with 116 tackles in 2021, and he returns to the Bulls after sitting out UB's spring game due to sports-hernia surgery. He also returns to a team that underwent significant offseason roster turnover, as 21 FBS and FCS transfers and 15 true freshmen and junior-college players join this year's roster. "The fact that he is back, James Patterson is one of the top returning players in college football," UB coach Maurice Linguist said. "He probably had a lot of opportunities after the season to do a lot of things, and he's on a lot of NFL scouts' lists right now. The fact that he said, 'I'm coming back,' ... it tells you something, when your best players and the best people and the fact they want to come back, it speaks to what we feel like is going on in that locker room right now. "We're excited about the ability they bring and the leadership they've provided." - Buffalo News

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ILB James Patterson, Buffalo
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08/09/22 - Demetrius Harris Jr., rSr/2024, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON PHIL STEELE/DRAFT SCOUT IVY LEAGUE SECOND TEAM: Demetrius Harris, Cornell, Sr.,...Harris had a breakout 2021, finishing tied for third on the team with 45 tackles, adding an interception, two pass breakups and a fumble recovery. He was a big part of a defense that ranked fifth in the Ancient Eigh and in the top 50 nationally, allowing just 212.6 passing yards per game. - Cornell Football

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SS Demetrius Harris Jr., Buffalo
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08/03/22 - Ron Cook Jr., rSr/2024, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON PAUL HORNUNG AWARD WATCH LIST: Ron Cook Jr., Buffalo,...Cook is a two-time All-MAC selection as a kick returner. In 2021, he had 28 returns for 587 yards. He also rushed for 440 yards and three touchdowns and added 23 catches for 232 yards and a score. - Buffalo Football

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RB Ron Cook Jr., Buffalo
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08/03/22 - James Patterson, rSr/2023, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: James Patterson, Buffalo, Senior LB,...This is the third preseason watch list for the redshirt-senior linebacker. He was also named to the watch lists for the Butkus Award and the Bronko Nagurski Trophy. Patterson is a two-time first-team All-MAC selection. In 2021, he led the Bulls and ranked second in the MAC in tackles with a career-best 116. He added a team-high 13 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, an interception and a forced fumble. - Buffalo Football

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ILB James Patterson, Buffalo
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07/31/22 - Joe Andreessen, rSr/2024, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE TEAM (COACHES/MEDIA): LB Joe Andreessen, Gr., Bryant,...Andreessen is coming off a career year in 2021 that saw him earn All-Northeast Conference honors for the second-straight year. He posted 80.0 tackles, 8.0 TFLs and tied for the league lead with three interceptions. Andreessen averaged over 7.0 tackles per game and posted 10+ tackles on three occasions. He's averaging over 8.0 tackles a game his last 13 games and enters the 2022 season with 139 career stops. - Bryant Football

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ILB Joe Andreessen, Buffalo
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07/29/22 - James Patterson, rSr/2023, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON BUTKUS AWARD WATCHLIST: James Patterson, Buffalo,...Patterson is a two-time first-team All-MAC selection. In 2021, he led the Bulls and ranked second in the MAC in tackles with a career-best 116. He added a team-high 13 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, an interception and a forced fumble. - Buffalo Football

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ILB James Patterson, Buffalo
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07/29/22 - Daymond Williams, rSr/2024, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: DT Daymond Williams, Buffalo,...Williams was a second-team All-MAC selection in 2021 following a strong first season with the Bulls. The Cisco College transfer led the Bulls and ranked sixth in the MAC in sacks with 6.5. He added 46 tackles and 10.5 tackles for loss while playing both defensive tackle and defensive end. - Buffalo Football

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DT Daymond Williams, Buffalo
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07/29/22 - James Patterson, rSr/2023, Buffalo + More +

Eight months after finishing 4-8 overall, and 2-8 in the Mid-American Conference, the University at Buffalo was picked to finish third in the East Division in the 2022 MAC football 24-person preseason media poll. The projection is a kind improvement, following the Bulls' fifth-place finish in the East a season ago. "You know, preseason polls, they're very necessary," Bulls coach Maurice Linguist said. "This time of the year brings all the excitement and all the juice and all the talk of football. We know where football's played, it's played on the field. Our men in the locker room know that and understand that. We have work in front of us that we have to get after in the month of August." Finishing above Buffalo in the East were Miami (Ohio) with 139 points, 20 first-place votes and five MAC championship votes, followed by reigning division champion Kent State with 116 points and three first-place votes.

Teams not ranked No. 1 typically feel slighted, and that slight is exactly why games are played. On a weekly basis, teams are given an opportunity to prove a miscalculation was made and their results from training camp until the end of the season is what matters most. "It doesn't mean anything, but you still have to use that to fuel the fire that they're doubting us," Bulls linebacker James Patterson said. "We know what we can do and we know what type of team we are and we just got to show that on game day." - Buffalo News

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ILB James Patterson, Buffalo
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07/29/22 - James Patterson, rSr/2023, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY WATCHLIST: LB James Patterson, Buffalo,...It is the second preseason watch list for Patterson who was also named to the Butkus Award Preseason Watch List on Monday. Patterson is a two-time first-team All-MAC selection. In 2021, he led the Bulls and ranked second in the MAC in tackles with a career-best 116. He added a team-high 13 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, an interception and a forced fumble. The FWAA and the Charlotte Touchdown Club will announce finalists for the 2022 trophy on Nov. 16 and the winner will be unveiled Dec. 5 at the Bronko Nagurski Awards Banquet presented by LendingTree in Charlotte, N.C. - Buffalo Football

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ILB James Patterson, Buffalo
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07/25/22 - Monroe Beard III, rSr/2025, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-SWAC FIRST TEAM: Linebacker: Monroe Beard III, Arkansas-Pine Bluff,...Beard was labeled as one of the top hard hitting linebackers in the SWAC Conference. Beard ranked in the top-10 in several categories in the conference, 5th in total tackles (78), 5th tackles average per game (7.1), 6th in the conference in solo tackles (44), 9th in the conference in sacks (5). - Arkansas-Pine Bluff Football

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OLB Monroe Beard III, Buffalo
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07/25/22 - Casey Case, rJr/2025, Buffalo + More +

The University at Buffalo football team will have its head coach under contract until the end of 2026. UB's athletic department announced Thursday that Bulls coach Maurice Linguist has agreed to a one-year contract extension. "An extension is something I'm proud of as a head coach, but it speaks to our assistant coaches, the young men in our locker room and everybody involved with UB football for the direction the program is heading and the confidence that we all have in where we're going," Linguist said in a statement released by the athletic department.

The extension comes after Linguist's first season as coach, in which the Bulls were 4-8 and 2-6 in the Mid-American Conference. After Linguist's first season, UB's staff focused on bringing in players with experience at the Power Five level, and its 36-player class of high school recruits, junior-college transfers, and Football Championship Subdivision and Football Bowl Subdivision transfers helped the Bulls rank as the MAC's top recruiting class, according to 247Sports. The Bulls' incoming class is No. 76 nationally in 247Sports' overall rankings. - Buffalo News

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QB Casey Case, Buffalo
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07/22/22 - Quian Williams, rSr/2023, Buffalo + More +

2022 PRESEASON BILETNIKOFF AWARD WATCH LIST: Quian Williams, Buffalo,...Williams has made an immediate impact since joining the Bulls prior to the 2021 campaign. He had a team-best 64 receptions for 835 yards and two touchdowns last season, his first with the Bulls. His 64 catches tied for eighth in program history for a single season. - Buffalo Football

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WR Quian Williams, Buffalo
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07/01/22 - Dom Polizzi, rSr/2025, Buffalo + More +

The University at Buffalo football program provided another feel-good - and fiscally helpful - moment this week. The Bulls on Wednesday announced that Dom Polizzi, a redshirt junior and an offensive lineman from Brockport, became the recipient of a full scholarship. The Bulls did it in a stylish fashion, too. In a video clip posted to social media, the players watched a highlight reel of Polizzi's top plays during a team meeting, and on the video, UB coach Maurice Linguist announced that Polizzi had earned a scholarship.

"I am beyond thankful for what this program has done for me both as a student athlete and a man," Polizzi wrote on Twitter, with a blue heart emoji and the "Horns Up" emoji. "Love the process and it will love you back." A day earlier, Polizzi's father, Ron, announced on social media that Dom had earned a full scholarship. Polizzi joined the Bulls as a walk-on from Brockport High School in the fall of 2019. He had six tackles and recovered a fumble in six games as a redshirt freshman in 2020, and played primarily on special teams in 11 games in 2021. - Buffalo News

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C Dom Polizzi, Buffalo
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05/28/22 - James Patterson, rSr/2023, Buffalo + More +

The Mid-American Conference has announced kickoff times for the first three weeks of the 2022 football season, plus midweek #MACtion games. The University at Buffalo will open Sept. 3 at the University of Maryland with a noon kickoff on the Big Ten Network. The Sept. 10 home opener at UB Stadium against Holy Cross has a 6 p.m kickoff on ESPN+. The Bulls then head to Coastal Carolina with a 1 p.m. kickoff on Sept. 17 on ESPN+. UB will host Miami (Ohio) on Oct. 1 at 3:30 p.m. A prime-time game at Ohio on Nov. 19 will begin at either 7 or 7:30 p.m. on ESPN2 or ESPNU, followed by a 7 p.m. kickoff at Central Michigan on Nov. 9 or ESPN2, ESPNU or CBS Sports Network. - Buffalo News

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