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Huskies Trip Tar Heels In Fenway Bowl, 27-14 - University of North Carolina Athletics

UConn limited North Carolina to 206 total offensive yards and beat the Tar Heels, 27-14, in the 2024 Wasabi Fenway Bowl on Saturday at Fenway Park.
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HUSKIES BEAT UNC FOR WASABI FENWAY BOWL TITLE - University of Connecticut Athletics

BOSTON, MA – The UConn Huskies earned their ninth win of the season by defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels, 27-14, in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl in front of 2...
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These are great. I love the post game presser and the post game video clips on the field. After the win. People talk about how bowl games are meaningless. This game sure as hell mattered to our guys. I'm very happy for them.
 
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These are great. I love the post game presser in the shots on the field. After the win. People talk about how bowl games are meaningless. This game sure was hell mattered to our guys. I'm very happy for them.
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Agreed. These bowl games mean a lot to the players & coaches, and the fans. Teams want to be rewarded for earning their way to a bowl game, even if it’s not a big bowl nor a CFP game. Winning these bowls are program builders for many schools. Another trophy & banner to display for potential recruits & transfers. It would be a travesty if the non-CFP bowls eventually get phased out like the bigwigs seem to be pushing for.

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Great season. Realistically this was just about the best we could have expected going into the year.

I would have liked to see how the season would have played out if Fagnano was the starter throughout, but in the end 9-4 with a p4 bowl win is crazy.

15 years between bowl wins.. hope we don't have to wait that long between the next one.
 
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Fenway Bowl notes: Money not enough to ‘lure away’ defensive MVP Pryce Yates

Pryce Yates withdrew from the transfer portal on Dec. 21. A week later, the veteran defensive lineman was named defensive MVP of the Fenway Bowl.
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-> “It was a hard process, but I was talking to the coaches a lot, keeping them in the loop and just kind of weighing everything,” he said after making six tackles, three for a loss, and a sack in the 27-14 win over North Carolina, the program’s most significant victory in this portal era.

“I think it said a lot about the fact that he didn’t want to leave these guys that he’s grown so close to, and that money wasn’t enough to lure him away. It was the experience that he was able to have here,” coach Jim Mora said. <-

-> “Obviously his talent speaks for itself, but I don’t think that was the genesis of what makes me happy,” Mora said. “In this day and age when money is what’s driving decisions in college athletics, to have a guy like Pryce who had much bigger offers say, hey, I want to come back to UConn because I want to be part of this team again… It just tells me that we’re on the right track, that we’re doing things the right way.” <-
 
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-> This was a moment long overdue for UConn football– a validation, a re-introduction of the program to the rest of the country watching the beatdown on ESPN.

This was Fenway Park, late December, a legitimate, fun bowl game — and UConn was running it.

To be dominating a flagship ACC program in New England’s de facto capital, inside the region’s greatest sports cathedral, felt special. Like something no UConn fan in the stands will forget for a while. <-

-> But on Saturday, it felt like a page had been turned. The downtrodden, can’t-beat-anybody, independent-because-nobody-wants-them Huskies weren’t out there on that field. Instead, there was a fast, tough, physical team flying around and making big-time plays, bullying the big-boy Tar Heels.

The spirit of the program Randy Edsall built years ago has been resurrected. Edsall built the program from the ground up, and then it collapsed, but Jim Mora has rebuilt it again with the same DNA– that tough, hard-nosed determination serving as the foundation. <-
 
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Not timely I realize but I remember thinking this at the game. Is Mel Brown a regular on kick coverage or was that an adjustment?
 
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