UConn vs. Temple Owls (Saturday 10/5/24 @3:30p @Rentschler Field). Game on CBSSN. Audio on Varsity Network/FoxSports 97.9 FM

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[BugsyCT]

 

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[AllHusky]

One game season sports fans. Beat Wake.

 

[J187Money]

Not that it matters necessarily but they have always played us tough - team needs to stay focused and disciplined and we should be fine.

Not our best game. Great to win it. But shows that we need to be locked in to win. We don’t have dominating talent.

 

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Goal Line Stand Cements UConn Win Over Temple - University of Connecticut Athletics

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – The UConn defense came up with a fourth and goal stop with three seconds left in the game, capped by cornerback Jordan Wright (Memphis, TN)

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Box Score

Owls Come Up Short in Heartbreaking Loss at UConn - Temple

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - The Temple Owls (1-5, 0-2) fell to the UConn Huskies (4-2) on Saturday in heartbreaking fashion. With Temple down three, UConn's defen...

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Vandy beats Bama! Arkansas beats Tennessee! How Week 6 brought the chaos

A week after knocking off Georgia, top-ranked Alabama falls to three-touchdown underdog Vanderbilt. The Tide weren't alone in their misery, though.

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under radar game of the week

"In most weeks, watching a game between UConn and Temple would be punishment for shoplifting in some more draconian jurisdictions. But on Saturday, it was actually pretty fun."

 

[BugsyCT]

Honestly, we should schedule Temple again in the future. Two northeast teams and it’s always a tough battle (when we’re not awful). Good little rivalry.

 

[Stray_Dog]

Not that it matters necessarily but they have always played us tough - team needs to stay focused and disciplined and we should be fine.

Not many of our fans may agree with me on this. However, i do feel that Temple is a rivalry game. They have many reasons to dislike us and many reasons for us to dislike them. we joined the Big East and they were getting kicked out for football. They join the AAC and we leave the AAC. Granted our choice but Temple has to think - we have a chip against them. They get in our way and we get in theirs. This is what makes a rivalry in my mind. You don't get to pick who your rivals are - history and fate decides that for you!. Not suggesting we find a name for it either.

 

[UConnDan97]

Not our best game. Great to win it. But shows that we need to be locked in to win. We don’t have dominating talent.

I understand this comment and mostly agree, but I will say this: especially when considering many of the losses that the "upper echelon" P4 teams have taken, I think that this statement can be applied to almost everyone within reason. We're not bad enough to count out, but we're not good enough to look ahead.

We're not Alabama. Nobody would ever make that mistake. But even Alabama isn't Alabama sometimes (like against Vandy). I think in this new NIL era where kids turn over on rosters fast, you're going to have a bunch more games where NIU beat Notre Dame and lose to Buffalo...

 

[ZooCougar]

Not many of our fans may agree with me on this. However, i do feel that Temple is a rivalry game. They have many reasons to dislike us and many reasons for us to dislike them. we joined the Big East and they were getting kicked out for football. They join the AAC and we leave the AAC. Granted our choice but Temple has to think - we have a chip against them. They get in our way and we get in theirs. This is what makes a rivalry in my mind. You don't get to pick who your rivals are - history and fate decides that for you!. Not suggesting we find a name for it either.

You might be the only person that feels this way.

 

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[BugsyCT]

Practically frame by frame stills of the last play

 

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The flip side:

 

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[Stray_Dog]

You might be the only person that feels this way.

Nope the group of 19 I go to games with agree with me! I said not many, not no one... LOL

 

[J187Money]

I understand this comment and mostly agree, but I will say this: especially when considering many of the losses that the "upper echelon" P4 teams have taken, I think that this statement can be applied to almost everyone within reason. We're not bad enough to count out, but we're not good enough to look ahead.

We're not Alabama. Nobody would ever make that mistake. But even Alabama isn't Alabama sometimes (like against Vandy). I think in this new NIL era where kids turn over on rosters fast, you're going to have a bunch more games where NIU beat Notre Dame and lose to Buffalo...

I also think winning games by 50 and then playing a 1-4 team looks like a trap game. And I can’t say that we approached it that way but we are going to have to fight for every win. Can’t afford to have down days.

 

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Rapid Reaction: UConn 29, Temple 20

It wasn't always pretty but it sure was at the end.

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-> “I think this team’s becoming a fun football team to watch. I don’t need it that close, necessarily, but character wins, they’re more important to me than blowouts,” Mora said. “That’s where you grow, that’s where you learn, that’s where you really start to define yourself as a team and as players on a team.” <-

->“This week, thankfully, we have the bye and we’re gonna look at everything that we’re doing,” Mora said. “Are we putting our players in a position where they can have success? Are we scheming them up? Are we calling the right plays at the right time? Do we have the right players on the field for the plays that we’re calling? Are we doing a good enough job of analyzing what teams are playing against us and predicting what we’re gonna see?

“We thought we were gonna see a lot of two-deep (two safeties lined up deep, dividing the field in half) in the red zone against these guys this week and we didn’t. And when you don’t, then you have to be able to adjust very quickly. It’s too late if you wait until after a game to adjust, right? So good coaches learn to do that and we’ve got good coaches and we’re gonna get that handled. But it can’t continue that way. You can’t live off field goals.” <-

-> During the bye week, UConn will practice Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and lift on Thursday morning. The team won’t have “football activities” Thursday and Friday and has Saturday off before coming in Sunday night to begin an extra day of preparation for Wake Forest. <-