On Saturday afternoon, the UCONN Football Huskies season came to an end on a loss to the Louisville Cardinals 48-17. Louisville now waits to see where they will be going to a bowl game. They do have a chance of still getting a BCS berth if Rutgers loses to West Virginia on Saturday night. For UCONN, there will be no bowl game for the second year in a row as they finished with a 4-8 record this year.
Notes and observations:
- Redshirt freshman, Donald Brown II, had 122 yards rushing in the game. This was the 4th time this season that he has gone over the century mark.
- UCONN got hosed by the replay officials in the first half. Chris Pavasaris boomed a 78 yard punt that was fumbled by the Louisville returner and picked up by UCONN’s Terry Baltimore and returned for a touchdown. Or so we thought. The replay official ruled that he muffed the punt and therefore the ball can’t be advanced. Another stupid college football rule. Anyways, UCONN was unable to put the ball in the end zone and settled for a Tony Ciaravino chip shot field goal.
- Matt Bonislawski was awful today going 7 for 19 for 89 yards with 1 interception.
- Terry Caulley scored a late touchdown in his last game as UCONN Husky.
- Surprise surprise! Matt Nuzie missed another field goal. And of all things, he wants to try to make it to the NFL. Good luck in the Arena League Matt if you can even do that.
- UCONN’s defense gave up 562 total yards. 341 of them were by QB Brian Brohm, who also threw 3 touchdown passes.
Really not much to say about this game. As Kirk Herbstreit said before the game, “The game hasn’t even started yet and Louisville has scored.” UCONN was well overmatched in this one but this game and season will have been a great learning experience for a young UCONN team. I sure hope that Coach Randy Edsall asks Santa for a new placekicker, quarterback, and a defensive backfield for next year’s team.
