With all due respect to UAB, that wasn’t really the world’s most difficult environment for UConn a couple weeks ago. The Huskies mounted a major comeback to take down Trent Dilfer’s team and move to 7-3 with two games left in the regular season. Now, after a bye week, Jim Mora’s crew will make a relatively short trip to Syracuse for a very big test against the Orange this Saturday….
Kickoff: The UConn Huskies begin a three-game road trip to end the 2024 regular season at UAB. Today will be the first-ever match-up between the Huskies and Blazers. The two teams will face each other again next fall on November 1st at the Rent. Four keys for UConn 1st Down. The offense must keep rolling: The UConn offense was dominant in their seven home games, scoring 258 points, the most…
The pressure of becoming bowl eligible is now gone. UConn can concentrate on bringing the show on the road for the final three games of the season and hopefully, increase the chances for a bigger, more well- known bowl game. While the bowl season as a whole has been terribly watered down with so many different bowl games now, playing one the last weekend of December is still a lofty…
By Aman Kidwai NEFJ Staff EAST HARTFORD — The UConn Huskies rushed for 271 yards and clinched bowl eligibility for the second time in three years with a 34-27 win over Georgia State at Rentschler Field on Friday night. The Huskies were up 20 in the fourth quarter and held on even though they allowed the Panthers back in the contest late. “Tonight showed that there’s all different kinds of…
Kickoff: The Huskies and Panthers will be meeting for just the second time on Friday night. Georgia State won the first meeting last fall, a 35-14 in Atlanta. Here are four keys to the game for the Huskies. 1st Down: Evers needs to turn things around: Quarterback Nick Evers has struggled of late. He needs to start playing better and make more plays in the passing game. The Huskies need…
There could be one hell of a party in East Hartford on Friday night. If Jim Mora’s Huskies can take care of business against Georgia State, UConn will have its sixth win and officially become bowl eligible for the second time in Mora’s three years with the program. It’ll also be Senior Appreciation Night and the final home game of the season. UConn hasn’t left home since September 21st, going…
By Evan Rodriguez NEFJ Contributor/Storrs Central EAST HARTFORD, CT – Needing a bounce back win on Saturday in another home game, UConn found a way to get a 17-10 victory over Rice. The Huskies are now 5-3 and just one win away from bowl eligibility for a second time in three seasons with games against Georgia State, UAB, Syracuse and UMass remaining. “It’s an understatement to say that we didn’t…
If everything goes according to plan for Jim Mora, Saturday’s three-point loss to Wake Forest will be nothing more than a blip on the radar on the way to a seven or eight-win season. With questionable officiating down the stretch not helping the situation, UConn dropped a 23-20 heartbreaker to move to 4-3 while suffering its first home loss of the season against the Demon Deacons. Now, the Rice Owns…
By Ryan Barry NEFJ Staff EAST HARTFORD – On a gorgeous fall afternoon at Rentschler Field, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons held on to beat the UConn Huskies 23-20 in front of 30,122 fans. Facing a do or die drive late in the fourth quarter, UConn (4-3) went on a 13 play, 88-yard drive to cut the lead to three thanks to a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Nick Evers…
By Ryan Barry NEFJ Staff UConn (4-2) head coach Jim Mora took to the podium for his opening week press conference to discuss the Huskies upcoming match-up against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (2-4) on Saturday afternoon. UConn is coming off a bye and looking for a fourth straight win. Mora on his opening thoughts on coming off the bye week and playing Wake Forest “Yeah, well, Wake Forest is…