UConn Football Just Completed One Of The Most Improbable Turnarounds In College Football History

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Perhaps no Division I FBS program has been more futile or feckless over the last decade-plus than the UConn Huskies. The Huskies have made just one bowl since 2010 when they were members of the now-defunct (for football) Big East. Since then, Uconn has had just three seasons with four wins or more.

From 2018-2021 the Huskies went a combined 4-32 (they did not play during the COVID-19-shortened 20220 season). That span includes a pair of one-win seasons in 2018 and 2021.

But now the program is trying to turn things around. UConn parted ways with head coach Randy Edsall in the middle of the 2021 season.  In his place, they brought in former UCLA and Atlanta Falcons head coach Jim Mora. Mora was seen as a puzzling and somewhat polarizing hire after a strange and not overly successful tenure with the Bruins.

The move has paid off, however, and paid off in a big way. The Huskies picked up their sixth win of the season on Saturday, becoming bowl eligible for the first time in over a decade. To do so, they took out 8-1 Liberty, which was ranked No. 19 in both the AP and USA Today Coaches Polls entering the game.

It’s only the fourth time in the history of the UConn program that they’ve beaten an AP Top 25 team and the first time since 2007, Huskies fans were in disbelief after the victory and were ready to give Mora a lifetime contract.

Bravo, Huskies, you’re not only not the worst team in FBS football anymore. You could actually make an argument that you have a completely competent football program. Which is much more than anyone would’ve said just three months ago.