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UConn is going Bowling > Wasabi Fenway Bowl v. Army (Saturday 12/27/25 @2:15 on ESPN)

UConnJim said:
Actually, we are doing the ACC a favor by taking their spot in the Fenway Bowl. Hopefully, they will remember.
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Are we actually kidding ourselves now? Are we trying to justify this selection as a possible chip to get into the ACC...the league that almost got shut out of the CFP this year. This is incredible cope.
 
MilliniumPrince said:
There are so many firmer CT residents in FL and the Carolinas that we wouldn't need to travel well to sell tickets.
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Whenever any UConn team plays in Florida the arena is 80% Husky fans. I went to the women’s UConn vs USF game in Tampa last week and it was mostly UConn fans. The UConn club in the Villages has 400 fans, lol. They ship bus loads to games

No, I do NOT live in the Villages, thank goodness
 
TMB4405 said:
I was at game. Not sure the actual number but it was fairly close to what they reported. To say that aboit the attendence you are either clueless or trying to be negative for some reason.
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It looked very crowded to me, I had a great view. We had those upper deck seats around home plate. I'd get those again in a heartbeat.
 
NHUConnfan said:
Because that means that our program has not improved standing despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Going to the same bowl two years in a row means this program is stuck.
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God, stop it already. I’m disappointed we didn’t get one of the SEC’s slots also but just stop it. The attendance reported last year looked perfectly consistent with what I saw in the stadium and the ACC, which controls the bowl, had no reason to make us look good with an inflated number. And thinking that the fact that we went to the same bowl for a second year in a row means “the program is stuck” is beyond stupid. Unless your point is that as the sole non-Notre Dame independent we’re not going to play in bigger bowls, in which case, well, duh.

One year ago we had one player — ONE — opt out of the bowl game because they didn’t care. Might there be some more with the coaching change? Sure, it’s possible as it would be anywhere. But how about we don’t assume no players are going to care to show up until some of the players tell us that.
 
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Let’s use the Gasparilla Bowl as an example: could have been a tasty matchup in Tampa. Beaches, “festivities”, likely more expenses all around but a higher payout. Played when 75% of our fanbase and CFB fanbase is at work!
I don’t get the negativity.
 
giddyup said:
Wanted a P4. But, I’m worried about the team showing up with all the distractions. Triple option will eat us alive.
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Damn. It’s too bad we didn’t play a triple option team four weeks ago and hold them to one of their lower offensive outputs of the season. Because then it would really be hard to understand all this pessimism.
 
This is a major, major downgrade from last year's great experience. Will we find out what our options were?
 
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Open questions to all:

At the time that RE was told that his resignation that he said would be effective after the season ended would intead be effective immediately, if you were told that we would go to three bowl games over the next four seasons, would you have seen that as anything other than a complete success? Would you have looked at any bowl bid as a disappointment?

Please be honest.
 
There's a link on the Fenway Bowl website to purchase tickets as UConn fans (sets up a coupon code "UCONN")

The date and location work for me... so selfishly I like the assignment (although would've been happy with anything that weekend in most locations). I wish it was a P4 matchup though and of the G5 teams would've really preferred it not be another option attack. UConn handled it with Air Force, but we saw the Rice debacle. 10 wins will give UConn something even though the opponent is a G5 school; but a loss is potentially damaging.
 
How Sway?! said:
It's a prominent G5 bowl because it usually means playing an ACC team. This year, we're taking the place of the ACC team so it's not really that impressive. Issue is that we have already played in it just last year and the opponent is not big enough to convince our top players to not opt out.
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Look at what you are saying here. You are saying our presence is the reason it is not a prominent bowl!

The prominence of a bowl does not change year to year. As you said, we are replacing the ACC. We are 9-3 and beat the ACC champs!
They are saying we are the headliner here, not the dog! Army is the AAC rep.

The ACC gets a 2 million dollar payout in this bowl, double what the AAC gets or virtually every other AAC/ g5 bowl. I do want to hear someone at UConn to confirm this, but they never talk about payouts so I doubt we will.
 
king conn said:
Look at what you are saying here. You are saying our presence is the reason it is not a prominent bowl!

The prominence of a bowl does not change year to year. As you said, we are replacing the ACC. We are 9-3 and beat the ACC champs!
They are saying we are the headliner here, not the dog! Army is the AAC rep.

The ACC gets a 2 million dollar payout in this bowl, double what the AAC gets or virtually every other AAC/ g5 bowl. I do want to hear someone at UConn to confirm this, but they never talk about payouts so I doubt we will.
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Interesting. Every nickel counts. If AD Dave and our Indy status gets us a better cut than last year based on projected gate (and as wildcard/ACC rep), more power to us. We will likely never know.
 
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Could have been a worse bowl but I'm not happy with the opponent or being in a repeat location. If we were going to play a team from The American, I would've preferred a team from the top half, preferably the top 5. ECU was similarly ranked to us in S&P+ and the Colley Matrix and I saw some outlets projecting that matchup. I think that would've been a much more interesting game. USF and Memphis would've been interesting matchups as well.

I'm thinking the logic here is we sold a lot of tickets to Fenway last year so they expect us to sell a lot again. Combine that with Mora and potentially some of our players leaving before the game and I have a feeling they weren't comfortable slotting us with a better opponent. Competitive games tend to get better ratings.

I don't want to come across as complaining though. It's still a decent bowl and gives us a chance to get to 10 wins. Silver linings.

Edit: didn't realize Army finished 6th in The American, thought they were 8th. Technically top half of the league but my point still stands, there are multiple other teams from The AC I would rather play
 
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BugsyCT said:
Fan bus again this year? That worked out well last year.
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If you hear anything about that can you make a thread about it?

I took Amtrak last year but prices are bad right now and the 2:30 start makes it a longer day.
 
BugsyCT said:
I was at the game. Plenty of UConn fans definitely showed up. I suspect that's why they invited us back again this year.
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There’s a picture of the bleachers that looked sparsely populated but the rest of Fenway looked pretty full

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king conn said:
Look at what you are saying here. You are saying our presence is the reason it is not a prominent bowl!

The prominence of a bowl does not change year to year. As you said, we are replacing the ACC. We are 9-3 and beat the ACC champs!
They are saying we are the headliner here, not the dog! Army is the AAC rep.

The ACC gets a 2 million dollar payout in this bowl, double what the AAC gets or virtually every other AAC/ g5 bowl. I do want to hear someone at UConn to confirm this, but they never talk about payouts so I doubt we will.
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I'm saying playing a bowl game against a P4 team is more prominent than playing a bowl game against a G5 team. Not that hard to understand
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Open questions to all:

At the time that RE was told that his resignation that he said would be effective after the season ended would intead be effective immediately, if you were told that we would go to three bowl games over the next four seasons, would you have seen that as anything other than a complete success? Would you have looked at any bowl bid as a disappointment?

Please be honest.
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Of course not.

But being 9-3 and facing a 6-6 Army is disappointing in the context of this season.

I mean, would you rather play The Army or a P4 team.

Please be honest.
 
ScottVib said:
We're filling the ACC spot... it's only right given we are the uncrowned ACC champs. (Although the ACC didn't get locked out Miami got the at large)
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I just went to ESPN and saw that, I did expect them to get completely left out. Wow
 
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