UConn football: Commemorating 10 years since Big East title
By John Scimeca
Let’s look back at a decade ago (can you believe it?) to 2010, when UConn football somehow captured the Big East conference championship.
Rewind the clock 10 years ago to December 2010 and the end of college football’s regular season and you’ll come across a strange sight: the University of Connecticut football team hoisting a conference title trophy.
It was a night game at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. on Dec. 4, 2010. More than 41,000 fans witnessed UConn kicker Dave Teggart make a 52-yard field goal with 17 seconds remaining to seal a 19-16 Huskies win against South Florida. The win, UConn’s eighth of the season, sealed the second Big East conference title in four years for the Huskies.
It was Teggart’s fourth made field goal of the game and his second make from 50 yards or longer in the fourth quarter. The Huskies somehow held off the Bulls despite being outgained by more than 100 yards. UConn led for most of the game, even though quarterback Zach Frazer finished with a not-so-stellar performance of 13-of-29 passing for 112 yards, no touchdowns, and one interception.
The win put the Huskies at 5-2 in Big East play, good enough for a three-way tie with West Virginia and Pittsburgh atop the standings. By virtue of owning head-to-head wins against the Mountaineers and the Panthers, UConn won the league title and the right to represent the Big East in the Fiesta Bowl in January.
The Huskies would go on to lose 48-20 to Oklahoma in that Fiesta Bowl. UConn has not had a winning season since.
What’s gone wrong with the program since then?