While it looks toward the future, the UConn football team still has a potential 10-win season on the line.
The second-biggest news in Storrs this weekend, after the Huskies announced Jason Candle as their next head coach, will come on Sunday when the team finds out which bowl game will complete its historic 2025 season.
Offensive coordinator Gordon Sammis, named interim head coach after Jim Mora’s departure for Colorado State, will continue to lead the Huskies to the finish line as they look to complete the program’s first-ever 10-win season in its FBS era.
A number of players have reportedly entered the transfer portal and it isn’t yet clear whether they will play in the bowl game, though several players did last season. UConn has plenty of starters who may finish their football careers in the bowl game or go on to play at the next level, like star quarterback Joe Fagnano and receiver Skyler Bell. Cam Edwards, a redshirt junior running back from Norwalk, was courtside at the UConn men’s basketball game with Bell Friday night and hasn’t made an announcement about his future.
It will be UConn’s third bowl appearance in the last four years since Mora took over as head coach. The Huskies lost to Marshall in the 2022 Myrtle Beach Bowl and beat North Carolina in last year’s Fenway Bowl.
Latest projections
Multiple outlets project the Huskies to land in the Gasparilla Bowl, which will take place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. on Dec. 19. ESPN’s Mark Schlabach lined up a potential matchup against Wake Forest, while The Athletic projected Conference USA champion Kennesaw State as the opponent and College Football News projects East Carolina.
CBS Sports has the Huskies winding up in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, one of the higher-profile bowl games, where they would play NC State on Jan. 2 in Charlotte, N.C.
Projections are all over the map, ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura has the Huskies in the Salute to Veterans Bowl against Old Dominion, while Athlon Sports and USA Today project a postseason matchup with Coastal Carolina in the Myrtle Beach Bowl and Boca Raton Bowl, respectively.
Sports Illustrated projects a meeting with Kansas State in the Liberty Bowl and the Sporting News pits the Huskies up against Iowa State in the Independence Bowl.