Is UConn vs UMass the Least Anticipated College Football Game of the Year?
Two teams that haven’t had a winning record since 2010.
As a college football fan in the Northeast, it is very rare to see a good college football team, or even one with a winning record. Well, when the Minutemen and Huskies meet on October 9th at McGuirk Alumni Stadium, we will see two programs that are DOWN BAD.
The Huskies of Connecticut have not had a winning record since 2010 when Randy Edsall, Jordan Todman, and Andre Dixon led them to a loss in the Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma.
When Edsall dipped and left UConn high and dry to go coach an absolute poverty program in Maryland right after the game, I believe he cursed the program until the end of time. He really pulled a scumbag move on the program that many fans, including myself, cannot forgive him for until he delivers a winning, or at least an above five hundred season.
After that Paul Pasqualoni and Bob Diaco combined for a record of 24 wins and 49 losses. When Edsall returned in 2017, he didn’t really help the program. In his three year return, he has posted a record of 6 wins and 30 losses. Sheesh.
Next season doesn’t look to promising for UConn as their set to play Houston, Central Florida, Clemson, Army, and Purdue.
The Minutemen aren’t getting off scot free in this discussion though. The last time UMass has had a winning record was also in 2010 under journeyman coach Kevin Morris with 6 wins and 5 losses.
Since then a revolving door of coaches hasn’t turned the program around. In Morris’s last season he went 5 and 6, then Charley Molnar tried to turn it around but failed when he put up a record of 2 and 22 in two seasons.
Following Molnar, former NFL coach Mark Whipple came into Amherst. From 2014 to 2018 he tallied a dismal record of 16 wins and 44 losses. After his departure, a young gun in Walt Bell walked through the door and in his first season had a 1-11 record.
UMass also doesn’t have a favorable schedule as they are set to play Pittsburgh, Coastal Carolina, Florida State, Liberty, Army, and Boston College.
Now when these two depleted programs square off in October, I predict that UConn will be looking for their second win after they beat Holy Cross, a D1-AA school in week two. I think they lose to Fresno State, Purdue, Army, Wyoming, and Vanderbilt before going into western Massachusetts.
For the Minutemen, I firmly believe that they’ll be looking for their first win after dropping their first five games to Pittsburgh, Boston College, Eastern Michigan, Coast Carolina, and Toledo.
With how bad these programs are, we may see a 17-14 win by someone or a 50-45 shootout. Beside that, both of these teams will win no more than two games. Just absolutely brutal for football fans in the Northeast. Thank God I have Notre Dame.