STL asked our friends at TNIAAM, our SB Nation Syracuse brethren, to give us insight.
The first thing you need to know about Connecticut football is that we’re not rivals. Basketball? Sure, we’ll still count them among a hated bunch of former Big East foes. But football is not basketball and thus, we are not rivals.
Last time Syracuse faced the Huskies (in 2012), SU beat them pretty soundly, 40-10. UConn was in the midst of being ruined by ruining former Orange head coach Paul Pasqualoni and it only got worse from there. I mean, look at this man and tell me he how knows joy of any sort.