UConn football dismantles Merrimack 63-17 in record-setting performance

Published: Sep 07, 2024 Duration: 00:03:04 Category: News & Politics

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With the disappointing 2023 campaign and a blowout loss to start 2024. It's been a while since you can. Football fans have had a game where things just felt fun from start to finish. Boy, did they get it against Merrimack? Jim Moore and company back here at Wrench field for the Huskies home opener. The first ever meeting between you and Merrimack, Joe Fo starting a quarterback for the Huskies and whatever he the offense eight before this game was the fuel for a high powered engine. First drive ball at the one yard line. Viano keeps it and breaks the plane the Husky score first just two minutes into the game. And that was just the beginning. This turned into the football equivalent of a fireworks show. Norwalk native Kim Edwards reels in the short pass and once he gets outside the numbers, it's speed racer time. A sideline sprint 50 yards to the house. Uconn extends the early lead over Merrimack 14 to ZIP. And if you like long touchdown runs, this was the game for you. Next drive Darrell Robinson takes the handoff, cuts it back and finds daylight up the middle his first carry of the day goes for 48 yards and a touchdown. That's how this game went for uconn one goal touch after the next and everyone getting a chance to play a little king minus three drives, three touchdowns. Victor Rosa on drive. Number four makes it four for four. The Bristol Central back breaks down the door of the scoring party. 28 unanswered. You can points roses. Bristol Central buddy, Donovan is used to, you can basketball blowouts. This though is something else. The Husky posted a touchdown drives. They go on to beat Merrimack 63 to 17, matching their F BS scoring record for points in a game vs five touchdown passes tied a school record set by Dan Orlovsky and you can gets its first victory of the season. The worst thing you can do as a coach, you start looking at the scoreboard. The worst thing you can do as a player is start looking at the scoreboard because it's an external factor that can have an influence on the way you play and it never should. And so if you want to be a good football team, if you want to be a good football player, if you want to be a good football coach, you worry about and you concentrate on things you can control and that's, you know, we don't look at the scoreboard. One thing that coach was saying was, you know, we're not scoreboard watching. We didn't really care what the score was. So we didn't, every time we got in the huddle, all I said to him was a 00. So just playing it like it's our first drive. So really the point total doesn't really matter to us. It's about how we played. Uh, how efficient were we margin of victory? Like it's whatever with us. As long as we get the win, that's all that matters. I mean, I mean, you obviously wanna search your dominance and, and show that you are a, a good football team at the F Bs level. But as long as we get the win, man, that's all that matters at the end of the day, everybody's happy, everybody's joyous. The fans are happy. We wanna give them a win for State of Connecticut. So that's great. This was a feel good win for uconn football. The Huskies finding the end zone drive after drive nonstop cheering from Yukon Nation. And of course, getting that first victory out of the way Yon hits the road for the next game that's against Duke next Saturday at Rencher Field, Jahar Fox 61 Connecticut's news station.

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