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Memphis Football: 3 takeaways from Memphis’ manhandling of UConn

By Jesse Smith

OXFORD, MS - OCTOBER 01: Riley Ferguson #4 of the Memphis Tigers throws the ball during the first half of a game against the Mississippi Rebels at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on October 1, 2016 in Oxford, Mississippi. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
OXFORD, MS - OCTOBER 01: Riley Ferguson #4 of the Memphis Tigers throws the ball during the first half of a game against the Mississippi Rebels at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on October 1, 2016 in Oxford, Mississippi. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /
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Memphis football took care of business against Connecticut on Friday night, dismantling the Huskies.

Memphis came into tonight’s game looking to get back on track after losing to UCF last week. UConn is an improved team, but they aren’t ready for the top-tier AAC teams currently. The home team did a good job sticking with Memphis for the first 28 minutes, but a quick striking away team scored 14 points before the half to push the score from a 21-21 tie to 35-21 and never looked back.

Memphis won 70-31 and I’m going to give you my three takeaways from tonight’s game.

3. Connecticut is still bad

Connecticut got blown out, but if you look back on the game they won the first 15 minutes 14-7, that is a positive for this program right? Memphis is a team that beat UCLA this season and for UConn to be able to hang with a program the caliber of Memphis has to be a building block right? The problem is that they only hung with them for a whole quarter and to be fair they were hanging in until late in the second quarter, but a quick score and a fumbled kickoff return stopped the game from being competitive.

The UConn defense gave up 711 total yards, nope that isn’t a typo, 480 yards passing and 231 yards rushing. They gave up seven football fields in one game.

On the positive note quarterback Bryant Shirreffs threw for 310 yards on 21-for-35 passing and one touchdown. Running back Arkeel Newsome ran for 114 yards and two touchdowns on nine carries. Real nice personal numbers for those two but when you lose by 39 points it isn’t much else I can say, but “good game”?

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