Connecticut Football Takes Center Stage vs. Notre Dame

Daniel Dinunzio — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:55:08 -0500

This is the week that all UConn football fans have been waiting for. Through trial, tribulation, and heartbreakers time and time again this season, a win this week would help tremendously in keeping the Huskies slim bowl hopes alive.

Zach Frazer will enter Notre Dame Stadium and lead the Huskies out on the field against the team and coach that recruited him all throughout high school. He understands the significance of this game.

Notre Dame on the other hand has been on a free fall of late. Head coach Charlie Weis' job security is uncertain and a lose this week to a young Connecticut program could doom his time in South Bend.

Of course there is the mystique and lust of playing against Notre Dame, but this is a game for the UConn to show the nation who they really are. Notre Dame has lost to teams that it is supposed to beat, and sure could happen again this week.

The execution of Notre Dame has not been the same in recent history. Charlie Weis had built a team this season that many thought had the potential to contend at the national level. That doesn't seem to be the case.

Head coach, Randy Edsall has had to deal with much more then just wins and losses this season. The death of a player, Jasper Howard, shocked the UConn community.

Edsall just wants his team to go out and execute the game plan. UConn played every game tight down the stretch this season. It's crazy to think this team has only four wins and has lost five games.

UConn's five losses were by a COMBINED 15 Points!

Staggering to say the least.

Then again at the end of the day it is all about winning, when the clock strikes zero. There is no question this is the game UConn has had circled on its calendar all year long. No matter what the record of Notre Dame is, it is still Notre Dame football.

Connecticut will take center stage and to defeat the storied program of Notre Dame, would be a remarkable accomplishment after the season UConn has been through.

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Five Keys to a UConn Upset Over Notre Dame

George Peterson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:10 -0500

Like the chances of winning the Powerball grand prize, for a long time I never thought I would use the nine words in the title of this article to describe a UConn Huskies football game. From the years of Division I-AA play in the old Yankee Conference, to the Huskies first few years in Division one as an independent, a game against a national powerhouse at possibly the mecca of college football was akin to rooting for a Detroit Lions Super Bowl victory.. The most wishful of thinking. Those dreams of UConn fans come to fruition this Saturday when the Huskies(4-5) travel to South Bend to face Notre Dame(6-4). Both squads are dealing with the reality of once promising seasons gone awry. For the Irish, 99.9% of any news coming out of South Bend seems focused around when the axe will fall on the Charlie Weis era. A win Saturday may not keep the vultures from circling altogether, but would quiet some of the critics for a few days. The Huskies need a win, not only to keep their fading bowl hopes on life-support for another week. A victory, in front of a national audience, could be a feather in the recruiting hat of coach Randy Edsall and his rising football program. If UConn's 2009 season script holds true to form, at the least, the Huskies' fans should be in for another nail-biter decided in the game's final quarter. To say the Huskies have to play 60 minutes of mistake-free football Saturday would be the most monumental of under-statements, but these five keys should be of the utmost importence as well.

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Connecticut Football Takes Center Stage vs. Notre Dame

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