Fans Are Buzzing As UConn Football Finds Its Winning Ways

College football fans in Connecticut have had a very long wait to root for a team that wins more games than it loses, but while most of us haven't been paying attention, the UConn football team is having themselves a heck of a season.

The University of Connecticut is not known nationally for its football team, unlike the hockey and men's and women's basketball teams, which have at least competed, if not won, national championships over the past 30 years. Do you know the name Randy Edsall? He was the head coach brought in from 1999-2010, and again from 2017-2021 to whip up the recruiting to produce a contender moving from Division 1-AA to Division 1-A. He did well, taking UConn to it's first ever Bowl Championship Series as a member of the Big East Conference.

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Rentschler Field was built in East Hartford with the hopes of luring an NFL team, but now Connecticut had a D1 football team that made almost as much noise as the hoops squads. In 2007, UConn football earned their first-ever national ranking at #13 in the BCS standings, and played in a bowl game. In 2010 UConn football lost to Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, and after that achievement, Edsall got hired away by Maryland.

UConn tried Edsall again from 2017-2021, but nothing substantial came from round 2. In 2021, UConn hired Jim Mora as head coach, and after a slow start the team stands at 9-3 today. Playing as an independent, still at Rentschler Field, and fresh off a 48-45 victory over FL Atlantic, for the first time in years my UConn alumni fans are chatting about the football team. Congratulations Coach Mora, we finally have a football team in Connecticut to talk about again, besides Yale beating Harvard.