-> What would constitute a “good bowl game” for UConn in 2024? A good playing date? A brand-name opponent? Balmy weather?
“That’s a really hard question, because the bowls are so different than when I was growing up,” Mora said. “We all knew the pecking order of bowls. Now, they have all these different names. I don’t even know beside the five kind of big ones, where they rank. I would love to play a prominent opponent we can measure ourselves against. That’d be great.”<-
-> “I hope it’s somewhere warm,” linebacker Jayden McDonald said. “(But) any time you get to play and compete in an extra game, that’s always a bonus. I’m very competitive and I want to play against the best team we possibly can, that’s why I think handling business (Saturday) will set us up for a challenge like that, but we’ve got to take it one week at a time.” <-
-> “Getting an opportunity just to go out one last time with the team we have here,” receiver Skyler Bell said. “We have a lot of guys on this team that might be playing their last game in a UConn uniform, their last game in a football uniform, period. You can feel it with the guys in the locker room, we care about one another, we lay it on the line for one another, I don’t think you’re going to see too many guys opt out. We’ve put in a lot of work together, so seeing it through to the end is going to be big for this group.” <-
