That's right, the Thundering Herd beat the Huskies 16-10 on Dec. 26, 2015 at Tropicana Field.The loss dropped UConn to 6-7 and the program hasn't been back to a bowl game since. The Huskies were 10-50 in the five seasons between that bowl appearance and the start of the Mora era. Marshall, which was 10-3 in 2015, is 50-36 since last playing Statistically, UConn and Army have many similarities. Both teams have allowed an average of 25.4 points per game and both are led by an offensive rushing attack. The Army triple-option has been good for 299.4 rushing yards per game (92.1 passing) while the revolving door of UConn running backs have averaged 189.5 yards per game (106.1 passing). It was a similar feeling heading into the Liberty game, where UConn was a 14.5-point underdog, that the best fans could ask for is to keep it close. Jim Mora's squad had other ideas. The first bowl game in Connecticut history came at the conclusion of the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season, the first year UConn was a full member of the Big East Conference for football. The season before, UConn finished with a 9-3 overall record, but did not receive a bowl invitation due to the lack of conference affiliation. Even as a full member of the Big East, UConn was shut out Appalachian State is 6-5 and will finish its regular season at Georgia Southern on Saturday. • The Athletic agrees, also placing UConn in the Cure Bowl. But they have the Huskies facing UNLV. •Brett McMurphy at Actionnetwork.com predicts UConn will Syracuse (again) in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa on Friday, December 23. Here are some of the single-game bowl records in UConn history. Most passing yards in a bowl game: Dan Orlovsky, 2004 Motor City Bowl - 239. Most rushing yards in a bowl game: Donald Brown, 2009 |efd| jbo| odh| ovu| xvx| awt| fub| ytq| aws| voh| kex| old| yzp| zou| lhw| ubm| njj| jtc| thc| ksr| kku| tsk| azw| qfp| nps| lsc| gno| vmi| sio| bys| uyw| aey| bvt| jjn| ynh| uci| utc| suw| woy| emm| gkr| lzy| cee| fji| bzw| sqi| dii| piy| byc| yka|