2020 UConn Huskies football team

2020 UConn Huskies football

Conference	Independent
Record	0–0
Head coach	Randy Edsall (4th consecutive, 16th overall season)
Offensive coordinator	Frank Giufre (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Lou Spanos (2nd season)
Home stadium	Rentschler Field
Seasons ← 2019 2021 →

2020 NCAA Division I FBS independents football records
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 11 BYU		–		11	–	1
No. 17 Liberty		–		10	–	1
Army		–		9	–	3
New Mexico State		–		1	–	1
UMass		–		0	–	4

Note: Due to COVID-19, UConn canceled the 2020 football season; New Mexico State was the only FBS school to play a spring schedule. Rankings from AP Poll.

The 2020 UConn Huskies football team would have represented the University of Connecticut (UConn) in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. After competing since 2004 as a member of the Big East Conference / American Athletic Conference in college football, the Huskies were slated to compete as an independent in 2020. However, on August 5, the university canceled its football season, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] The Huskies would have been led by fourth-year head coach Randy Edsall and would have played their home games at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut.

The New York Times columnist Kurt Streeter argued UConn was the “real” national champion of the 2020 season, claiming the Huskies deserve this designation for opting out of the 2020 season due to COVID-19.^[2]

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Previous season

The Huskies finished the 2019 season 2–10, 0–8 in American Athletic Conference (AAC) play, to finish in last place in the East Division. The 2019 season was the Huskies' last as a member of the AAC.

Preseason

During the summer of 2020, UConn had six teams cancel games against the Huskies before the university canceled the rest of the remaining scheduled season.^[1] UConn became the first FBS program to cancel its entire schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]^[3]^[4] Below was the original schedule for the season.^[5]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 3	UMass	Rentschler Field East Hartford, CT (rivalry)	Cancelled
September 12	at Illinois	Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL	Cancelled
September 19	at Virginia	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA	Cancelled
September 26	Indiana	Rentschler Field East Hartford, CT	Cancelled
October 3	Old Dominion	Rentschler Field East Hartford, CT	Cancelled
October 10	Maine	Rentschler Field East Hartford, CT	Cancelled
October 24	at Ole Miss	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS	Cancelled
October 31	Liberty	Rentschler Field East Hartford, CT	Cancelled
November 7	at North Carolina	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	Cancelled
November 14	at San Jose State	CEFCU Stadium San Jose, CA	Cancelled
November 21	Middle Tennessee	Rentschler Field East Hartford, CT	Cancelled
November 28	Army	Rentschler Field East Hartford, CT	Cancelled

Award watch lists

Listed in the order that they were released.

Award	Player	Position	Year
Doak Walker Award^[6]	Kevin Mensah	RB	SR
Wuerffel Trophy^[7]	Brian Keating	LS	SR

Roster

The 2020 roster if UConn had played for the 2020 season.

2020 Connecticut Huskies football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
WR	`1`	Keelan Marion	Fr
WR	`3`	Heron Maurisseau	So
WR	`4`	Matt Drayton	So
WR	`7`	Cameron Ross	So
QB	`8`	Steven Krajewski	So
WR	`9`	Darius Bush	Fr
QB	`10`	Micah Leon	Jr
QB	`11`	Jack Zergiotis	So
QB	`12`	Jonathan Senecal	Fr
QB	`13`	Miles Foerster	Fr
WR	`14`	Elijah Jeffreys	So
RB	`25`	Devontae Houston	Fr
RB	`26`	Nathan Carter	Fr
RB	`28`	Brian Brewton	Fr
RB	`34`	Kevin Mensah	Sr
RB	`35`	Dominico Moncion	Jr
RB	`36`	Khyon Gillespie	So
RB	`38`	Lavarey Banton	So
WR	`39`	Hayden Jordan	Fr
TE	`47`	Ventine Richardson	Jr
OL	`50`	Dylan Niedrowski	So
OL	`51`	Peter Rooney Jr.	So
OL	`53`	Sidney Walker	Jr
OL	`54`	Remon Young	Fr
OL	`60`	Mason Raymer	Fr
OL	`61`	Jesse Polansky	Fr
OL	`62`	Noel Ofori-Nyadu	So
OL	`64`	Christian Haynes	So
OL	`66`	Zack Early	Fr
OL	`67`	Christopher Fortin	Fr
OL	`69`	Will Meyer	Fr
OL	`71`	Ryan Denmark	Fr
OL	`72`	Rayonte Brown	Fr
OL	`73`	Alex Wyant	Fr
OL	`74`	Ryan Van Demark	Sr
OL	`75`	Chase Lundt	Fr
OL	`76`	Jonathan Pace	Jr
OL	`77`	Robby Rochester	Fr
OL	`78`	Andrew Torres-Silva	Jr
TE	`80`	Jayce Medlock	So
TE	`81`	Jay Rose	Sr
TE	`82`	Brendan Heatherman	Fr
TE	`83`	Brandon Niemenski	Fr
WR	`84`	Jacob Flynn	Fr
TE	`85`	Russell Dixon	Fr
WR	`86`	Kevens Clercius	Fr
WR	`87`	Cameron Hairston	Jr
WR	`89`	Jahkai Gill	So
TE	`90`	Tim O'Shea	So

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
DB	`0`	Reyan Blake	Fr
DB	`2`	Myles Bell	So
DB	`3`	Diamond Harrell	Sr
LB	`5`	Terrence Ganyi	So
DB	`6`	Keyshawn Paul	Jr
DB	`7`	Tre Wortham	Jr
DB	`8`	Jalon Ferrell	So
LB	`15`	Tui Faumuina-Brown	Fr
DB	`16`	Malik Banks	So
DB	`18`	Abiola Olaniyan	Jr
DB	`19`	Durante Jones	Fr
DB	`20`	Robert King III	Jr
DB	`21`	Jeremy Lucien	Jr
DB	`22`	Alfred Chea	Fr
DB	`23`	Juan Rosario	So
LB	`24`	Desmond Fogle	Fr
LB	`27`	Omar Fortt	Sr
LB	`29`	Jordan Morrison	So
DB	`31`	Malik Dixon	Fr
DB	`32`	Shamel Lazarus	So
LB	`33`	Hunter Webb	So
DB	`36`	Jaylen Jones	Fr
DB	`37`	Kyle Williams	GS
DB	`38`	Winston Jules	Fr
LB	`41`	D.J. Morgan	GS
DL	`42`	T.J. Gardner	Jr
LB	`43`	Jackson Mitchell	So
LB	`44`	Ian Swenson	Jr
DL	`46`	Marques Alexander	Fr
LB	`47`	Justin Bryant	So
DL	`48`	Kevon Jones	Jr
DL	`52`	Caleb Thomas	Jr
DL	`55`	MarQuayveon Evans	Fr
DL	`56`	Carter Hooper	Fr
DL	`57`	Travis Jones	Jr
LB	`58`	Dillon Harris	Sr
DL	`68`	Justin Moore	Fr
DL	`91`	Collin McCarthy	Fr
DL	`93`	Pierce DeVaughn	So
DL	`94`	Nick Harris	Fr
DL	`95`	Eric Watts	So
DL	`96`	Dal'mont Gourdine	Fr
DL	`98`	Lwal Uguak	Jr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class
P	`17`	Blake Otto	Fr
K	`49`	Clayton Harris	So
LS	`53`	Brian Keating	Sr
LS	`59`	Nilay Upadhyayula	Fr
LS	`63`	Kevin Cahill	So
K	`92`	Noah Iden	So
K	`97`	Noe Ruelas	Fr
P	`99`	Luke Magliozzi	Jr

Head coach

Randy Edsall

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Frank Giufre
Offensive coordinator/offensive line
Lou Spanos
Defensive coordinator
Kyle Weiss
Running backs
Corey Edsall
Tight ends
Darrell Perkins
Defensive backs
Dennis Dottin-Carter
Defensive line
Aaron Smith
Wide receivers
Mike Moyseenko
Quarterbacks
Eddie Allen
Special teams coordinator
Jarren Horton
Star, nickel, dime

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Roster
Last update: June 9, 2020

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "UConn becomes first FBS program to cancel football season due to coronavirus". TheHill.com. August 5, 2020. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
^ "The College Football Champion Not in the Title Game". January 4, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
^ "UConn Cancels Football Season Over COVID-19 Concerns". NBC Connecticut. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
^ "UConn 1st FBS team to cancel football season". ESPN.com. August 5, 2020. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
^ "UConn Releases Finalized 2020 Football Schedule". NBCConnecticut.com. November 25, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
^ "2019 finalist Chuba Hubbard, 2018 finalist Travis Etienne two of the 76 Doak Walker Award watch listers". July 15, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
^ "The Wuerffel Trophy 2020 Watch List (Non AP)". July 23, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.

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