UConn football defeats Georgia State 34-27, becomes bowl eligible

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — UConn soccer rode its dynamic speeding assault to earn a hard-fought 34-27 victory over Georgia State underneath the lights on Friday at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Discipline.

The Huskies superior to 6-3 and earned bowl eligibility with three video games remaining. UConn is well-positioned to safe its first profitable season since 2010 because it finishes the rest of the season on the highway towards UAB, Syracuse and UMass.

Friday was Senior Night time in East Hartford. Throughout a pregame ceremony, 24 Huskies had been honored for his or her contributions to a program that lastly seems to be on the rise underneath head coach Jim Mora.

Following the sport, Mora mirrored on what it means to grow to be bowl eligible. He confused the significance of profitable a minimum of yet one more sport, which the 2022 group failed to perform. Nonetheless, that group went bowling, and this one ought to too.  

“Bowl eligible doesn’t imply that you just’re bowl certain,” Mora stated. “Two years in the past, after we acquired our sixth win, we had been holding onto it like, ‘Are we going to get a bid?’ We’re not assured something, so what we’ve got to do is we’ve got to concentrate on getting this subsequent sport.”

Circling again to the sport that occurred Friday, UConn performed from forward for many of the contest. The Huskies jumped out to a fast 7-0 lead on a three-play drive led by a 52-yard burst from working again Mel Brown. Quarterback Nick Evers quickly after discovered tight finish Louis Hansen on a two-yard landing completion.

UConn prolonged its result in 10-0 earlier than Georgia State got here again to tie to the sport within the second quarter. The Panthers regarded to take a halftime lead earlier than quarterback Zach Gibson threw an interception to UConn’s D’Mon Brinson, establishing a Chris Freeman discipline objective to place the Huskies up 13-10.  

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UConn acquired the ball first within the second half and marched down the sector, led by a 46-yard scamper from working again Cam Edwards. The Huskies punched the ball into the endzone on a one-yard landing by working again Durrell Robinson to take a 20-10 lead.

After a Georgia State discipline objective, the groups exchanged punts, earlier than UConn launched into a 57-yard landing drive that Evers completed off with a five-yard landing run early within the fourth quarter. The Huskies led 27-13.

Georgia State proceeded to show the ball over once more, and UConn capitalized instantly. Mel Brown exploded down the sideline for a 31-yard landing to in the end put the Huskies forward 34-13 with 11:26 remaining within the sport. It will show to be the profitable rating.

Credit score to the Panthers, as they racked up the yards on two lengthy fourth-quarter landing drives to chop the UConn result in seven. Georgia State practically recovered an onside kick within the closing minutes that will have given them a possibility to tie the sport with a landing, however UConn recovered.  

On a key fourth-and-one play with 52 seconds remaining, Evers handed the ball off to Edwards, who ran 4 yards for a game-clinching first down. After a kneel from Evers, the Huskies ran the clock out and earned the win, ending the season with a 6-1 residence file. It’s the first time since 2010 that UConn has one six video games at residence in a season.

On an evening the place Evers threw for less than 75 yards on 10 completions, it was the offensive line and working again teams who did the heavy lifting.

Brown completed with 138 yards on 14 carries, whereas Edwards ran for 88 yards on 13 carries. Evers ran 9 instances for 25 yards, and Robinson had six carries for 21 yards.

It’s the first time since 2022 that UConn is bowl eligible, however with three video games remaining, the Huskies have an opportunity to perform way more.

Subsequent up on the schedule is a sport in Alabama towards UAB. The Huskies discover themselves in a good place. With yet one more victory, UConn can all however assure this system’s eighth bowl sport look.

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Dalton Zbierski is a digital content material producer and author at FOX61 Information. He might be reached at [email protected]. 

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