UConn Football adds Yale (2021) and FIU (2025/2027) to future schedules

[huskymedic]

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>>UConn will play a schedule in its first year of independent football that has Yale at home, Clemson on the road and Wyoming stuck somewhere in the middle. It’s a wild ride. UConn athletic director David Benedict was trying the find the most sensical game remaining on the board. “If it’s a good game, a good experience, there’s a big crowd and the state’s really excited about it, why wouldn’t we play?” Benedict said. “I’d love for us to sell it out.”<<

>>UConn already has FCS Holy Cross on its 2021 schedule. An FBS team can count one win per season toward bowl eligibility against an FCS team and only if it awards athletic aid equivalent to 56.7 scholarships (90 percent of the limit) over a period of a few years. It’s a stupid rule. Yale, which will receive a $285,000 guarantee from UConn, does not give athletic scholarships. Central Connecticut, which will receive $275,000 guarantees for each game at Rentschler in 2022 and 2025, fits that criteria.<<

 

[buddy]

Yale should be paying UConn!

 

[jdb50]

The pressure will clearly be on UConn for the Yale game. It will be a very interesting event.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The Boneyard: “UConn football has never and in the past and should never in the future wear red!”
UConn football in the past:
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[Uconnalliance]

FIU is that Kiffins school?

 

[Hey Adrien!]

FIU is that Kiffins school?

FAU.

Very happy with this and should happen every year. Would love to see UConn play at the Yale Bowl.

 

[uconnric]

Lane has moved on to Ole Miss. Glad to see Yale on the schedule, that used to be our big game at the Bowl. Game usually drew around 30,000 back in the day.

 

[Redding Husky]

I like Yale on the schedule, as long as we beat them.

 

[cullaville]

Lane has moved on to Ole Miss. Glad to see Yale on the schedule, that used to be our big game at the Bowl. Game usually drew around 30,000 back in the day.

And another 40,000 in the parking lots tailgating and never going to the gane.

 

[Adios]

FIU is that Kiffins school?

Butch Davis is a better coach than Kiffin and Edsall. Better hope he retires soon.

 

[Ldandy]

The Boneyard: “UConn football has never and in the past and should never in the future wear red!”
UConn football in the past:
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Red? I have to get my eyes checked. I thought that was Syracuse or Illinois in the picture.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Red? I have to get my eyes checked. I thought that was Syracuse or Illinois in the picture.

UConn use to wear orange to distinguish itself from other area schools like New Hampshire and Yale. Almost called the Orangeman about a century ago.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

UConn use to wear orange to distinguish itself from other area schools like New Hampshire and Yale. Almost called the Orangeman about a century ago.

This can’t be true

edit: had to google it. Wild stuff. I think that picture is more recent than those times though?

it was great of @Butch to let them use one of his old programs from his collection.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

This can’t be true

edit: had to google it. Wild stuff. I think that picture is more recent than those times though?

it was great of @Butch to let them use one of his old programs from his collection.

It is
It's from 1958? I know the blue has changed over the years. The blue was much lighter in the early 70s

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

It is
It's from 1958? I know the blue has changed over the years. The blue was much lighter in the early 70s

The UConn Today article I found mentioned it happening in the 20s.

I’m assuming those are red pants. The inspiration for Bob Diaco’s famous red pants.

 

[Adios]

This can’t be true

edit: had to google it. Wild stuff. I think that picture is more recent than those times though?

it was great of @Butch to let them use one of his old programs from his collection.

All I ever had from UConn was that 1924 fob. Wouldn't be surprised if Edsall owns it now.

 

[Hogoff]

The Boneyard: “UConn football has never and in the past and should never in the future wear red!”
UConn football in the past:
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Looks more like orange to me.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Looks more like orange to me.

I can't find when UConn stopped wearing orange but that poster is from 58.

 

[Uconnalliance]

FAU.

Very happy with this and should happen every year. Would love to see UConn play at the Yale Bowl.

Me too, my father is probably dancing in heaven after he heard the news

 

[freescooter]

The UConn Today article I found mentioned it happening in the 20s.

I’m assuming those are red pants. The inspiration for Bob Diaco’s famous red pants.

Are you sure the orange pants are UConn? I imagine those are the captains and Yale traditionally only had 1. Plus I believe Yale always wore white helmets. UConn as the road team would likely where white by the Fifties.

 

[huskymedic]

Looks more like orange to me.

Are you sure the orange pants are UConn? I imagine those are the captains and Yale traditionally only had 1. Plus I believe Yale always wore white helmets. UConn as the road team would likely where white by the Fifties.

UConn Huskies (1957)

This graphic originally appeared in last November's Rivalry Week post, but I thought it deserved its own freestanding page, so here we...

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>>Although gold has never been part of their official color ensemble, the UConn Huskies wore gold pants almost every season from 1953-63, with blue pants used frequently, too. Why, I'm not sure; unlike Harvard, there was no direct "carryover" from the leatherhead days of khaki-colored pants. UConn last wore tan/khaki in the early 1940s.<<

It’s noted here that the Yale/UConn program that has caused all the questions about the pant colors are actually UConn’s 1957 uniforms - not 1958:

UConn Huskies (1958-60)

The UConn Huskies, despite a fairly distinguished football history, have one of the last stable uniform traditions of anyone i...

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[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Are you sure the orange pants are UConn? I imagine those are the captains and Yale traditionally only had 1. Plus I believe Yale always wore white helmets. UConn as the road team would likely where white by the Fifties.

Maybe you’re right. I was going off where UConn and Yale were written on the page

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Are you sure the orange pants are UConn? I imagine those are the captains and Yale traditionally only had 1. Plus I believe Yale always wore white helmets. UConn as the road team would likely where white by the Fifties.

Actually that is Yale on the left and UConn on the right . Good points Free and DJ. Thanks to Medic for the Gridiron Garb site. interesting history lesson.

 

[gopher2]

Been to the Yale bowl many, many times. It ain't much. Very old and run down, even with the spruce up a few years ago.

I went to see Harvard blow out Yale at the YB a few years ago. I had forgotten what a miserable place it is to get around in with a crowd of 30,000 plus. To get anywhere (concessions, lavs) you first have to go to that narrow concourse between the upper and lower bowls which is jammed solid, particularly around halftime. What a slog that can be.

 

[Kolumbo]

When UConn left the AAC did UConn and the AAC purposely avoid scheduling each other? I see UCF and a few Temple games on the schedule but that's it.

The future schedules are a nice mix of ACC, B1G and other G5. Closer to an ND type schedule. Syracuse, Army and BC several times. No Rutgers games and that was building into a nice rivalry as was Cincinnati.