UConn adds H/H with Ole Miss (2027/2028), Liberty (2022/2025) & Home Game versus Sacred Heart (2023)

[huskymedic]

-> The Rebels will travel to East Hartford for a contest on September 11, 2027 and the Huskies will head to Oxford, Miss. for the return game on November 18, 2028. The matchup in 2027 will be the first between Ole Miss and UConn.

Liberty will travel to Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field on November 12, 2022 and the Huskies will head to Lynchburg, Va. on November 15, 2025.

The date of the contest against Sacred Heart, which will occur sometime during the 2023 season, will be determined by UConn no later than January 1, 2022. <-

 

[Exit 4]

Just wow.....wow...wow and wow with respect to Ole Miss. First SEC H&H since Missouri.....and perhaps just our third all time after a Vandy H&H?

 

[BugsyCT]

Nice get! SEC school coming to the Rent!

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Drew]

WAY TO GO AD David Benedict!!!!! AWESOME.

 

[freescooter]

Nice get. I always like to get the front end at home too. Far less likely to get cancelled I think.

 

[freescooter]

Liberty was predictable. SHU is kind of consistent with what seems to be a real commitment to supporting local 1aa programs. Yale Central now SHU. If you are going to play one might as well play a local one. Ol’ Miss is kind of a surprise. I heard an SEC game was on the table but I expected an extension with Vanderbilt

 

[coachcap]

UConn auditioning to become the Northern outpost of the SEC ya'll!

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

Nice get for UConn.

Maybe Ole Miss comes to The Rent in 2027 with their Heisman-frontrunning senior QB Arch Manning and the CBS cameras can show the press box filled with the entire Manning family 100 times as UConn upsets the pre-season SEC favorites Ole Miss on the way to an undefeated UConn season. Sound good?!

 

[DoctorWho85]

Never been to Mississippi. Sounds like a road trip for me.

 

[Dooooooomed]

AD Dave killing this independent scheduling thing. If we can get respectably decent on the field, this could get fun again.

'27 home schedule: Ole Miss, Cuse, Carolina, Army, Temple. Can't wait!

 

[shizzle787]

This is excellent news. Going forward I would like to see us schedule certain schools home and home every year: Army (for the most part we have already done this-missing 2023 and 2026), UMass (we haven't scheduled them past this year-maybe they are thinking of downgrading?), Boston College (no games after 2023), Syracuse (we have a series in 26/27), and BYU (we haven't scheduled them in a while but they are independents so it's mutually beneficial).

If we can play 5 P5s a year (one pay-day game, three regional rivals, and one SEC schools), Army, BYU, UMass, an FCS school, one solid American program (UCF, Houston, etc.), one MW program, and other notable G5 school (Buffalo, Appalachian State) I would be very happy.

2021 is a really good schedule for the program. The only things I would nitpick would be playing MTSU (bad team with no brand) and Holy Cross (a 2nd FCS game).

 

[uconnbill]

I was going to the Ole Miss game last year as my brother is a season ticket holder and I was so looking forward to walking through The Grove.

Now my brother can come north and then I can so south the following year. Of course I will be in my 60's as will here. Still will be fun.

 

[AD DB Burner]

Never been to Mississippi. Sounds like a road trip for me.

By most accounts, Ole Miss is one of the top tailgate environments in all of college football.

 

[Adios]

Some of us won't live to see the Ole Miss games but hard to deny going independent will be more fun for the fans.

 

[BugsyCT]

Anyone know what the deal is with Lafayette? We have them scheduled at the Rent in 2026 but thought we also host them in 2023.

 

[huskymedic]

Anyone know what the deal is with Lafayette? We have them scheduled at the Rent in 2026 but thought we also host them in 2023.

2023 appears to have been replaced by SHU...

-> Lafayette was previously scheduled to play at UConn in 2023, but that game appears to have been postponed to a future season or canceled. The Leopards are also slated to play at UConn on Sept. 5, 2026, which was part of the same contract. <-

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Are we sure we want to play SHU in football? It's a wonderful school but it is ranked low in the Northeast Conference. The optics suggest UConn is moving toward an FCS membership. Especially with Central CT, Yale, etc. Can't this schedule be FBS teams for the next few years?

 

[Hoophound]

Are we sure we want to play SHU in football? It's a wonderful school but it is ranked low in the Northeast Conference. The optics suggest UConn is moving toward an FCS membership. Especially with Central CT, Yale, etc. Can't this schedule be FBS teams for the next few years?

I think we are just scheduling easy to get, inexpensive FCS games. I wouldn’t read into scheduling Sacred Heart as headed to FCS, especially when we just scheduled a home game with Ole Miss for 2027.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

I think we are just scheduling easy to get, inexpensive FCS games. I wouldn’t read into scheduling Sacred Heart as headed to FCS, especially when we just scheduled a home game with Ole Miss for 2027.

I hope so. Even if Benedict and Edsall want to keep UConn at FBS, there are others looming in the background who would like to see UConn downgraded. Eventually, they may get power.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Are we sure we want to play SHU in football? It's a wonderful school but it is ranked low in the Northeast Conference. The optics suggest UConn is moving toward an FCS membership. Especially with Central CT, Yale, etc. Can't this schedule be FBS teams for the next few years?

They were middle of the road in NEC last year and went to the FCS playoffs the year before. UConn moving toward FCS membership? The indie schedule is way better than the AAC.

 

[Adios]

Are we sure we want to play SHU in football? It's a wonderful school but it is ranked low in the Northeast Conference. The optics suggest UConn is moving toward an FCS membership. Especially with Central CT, Yale, etc. Can't this schedule be FBS teams for the next few years?

Playing local schools is how you develop or contribute to the scene, overall....

Do you realize we play more P5 schools as an independent than as a member of the AAC???

 

[freescooter]

I think it is that we are playing 1fcs team per year. We can sell it as supporting local programs. This year was an oddball playing 2. Going forward we will do the same thing Alabama does and play 1 per year.

 

[Hoophound]

I hope so. Even if Benedict and Edsall want to keep UConn at FBS, there are others looming in the background who would like to see UConn downgraded. Eventually, they may get power.

It just doesn’t make any sense to drop to FCS when you already have FBS facilities, including a pretty nice stadium. Dropping football all together would be a far more sensible option. I don’t think that will happen. On top of that, the new president is in favor of FBS football as are a number of significant donors.

 

[CCSUblue]

Guys, I see Alabama is playing Mercer next season. They're a bottom of the barrel team in the SoCon. Optics tell us they are preparing to move to FCS level football.