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I'm sure there's something to your point, but by that logic USF, ECU, and SMU should be talked about more, and I think they would be if they had the recent success of the others. That's basically the point I'm trying to make.Recent success is one thing, but when it comes to football down south pure "name recognition" means a ton. UCF and UConn could have both entered FBS the same year and had identical records over a decade span playing the same exact schedules, but 80% would vote UCF as the better program and add for the Big12. Why? Because of the "Florida" part of the name. No one equates the word "Connecticut" with college football success, hell I'd say most southerners dot want a yankee state to ever be as good as them at the game, yet names like "Houston" and "Memphis", as weak of candidates as they may be, will always be perceived greater at football.
There would definitely still be people against UConn even if we had recent success for a variety of reasons, but the way the past 4-5 years have gone for the program it's a tougher pill to swallow for B12 fanbases.