University of Connecticut Athletics
Huskies Performing on the National Stage
11/18/2025 4:03:00 PM | Football
STORRS, CT - The UConn Huskies head into their regular season finale on Saturday at Florida Atlantic looking for a ninth win to continue pushing their way into the national conversation.
After a thrilling 37-34 victory at home over Duke, the Huskies became one of only two Group of Five programs in the nation to defeat two Power 4 opponents (UConn, Tulane). And following the win over Air Force last weekend, The UConn Huskies returned to AP Top-25 poll this week for the first time since the final poll of the 2010 season. The Huskies were among the teams receiving votes after improving to 8-3 on the season. The Huskies improved to 19-7 over their last 26 games. In additions, the Huskies possess the fourth-longest active streak in college football, having gone 23 straight without losing by more than one score. Only Miami (27 games), Ole Miss, and Ohio State (both at 26) have longer streaks.
Dominating At Home
UConn's transformation under Head Coach Jim Mora has been most visible at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field, affectionately known as "The Rent" to the faithful. Game after game, the stadium erupted as UConn dismantled opponents on their home turf. By the time Air Force left town after a 26-16 defeat, the Huskies had completed something special: a perfect 6-0 home record, their first undefeated home campaign since that magical 2010 season.
The numbers told a story of dominance. Over the last two seasons, UConn had gone 12-1 at home, the best stretch in the stadium's history. During those thirteen games, the Huskies averaged an explosive 38.5 points per game while outscoring opponents 500-231. Eight straight home victories had turned The Rent into a fortress, a place where visiting teams came to lose.
The Dynamic Duo
Running back Cam Edwards is a force of nature, a bruising runner who seems to get stronger as games wear on. Against Air Force, he bulldozed his way to 165 yards, with 150 coming in the second half alone. More importantly, that performance pushed him over the 1,000-yard mark for the season, making him the first Husky running back since 2019 to reach that milestone and the 14th in program history.
On the outside, wide receiver Skyler Bell is putting together an all-time season, hauling in 1,153 receiving yards. Together, Edwards and Bell achieved something that hasn't been done in the modern era of UConn football—they became the first running back-wide receiver combination in the FBS era (since 2003) to both eclipse 1,000 yards in the same season. You have to go all the way back to 1988 to find the last time a Husky RB-WR duo accomplished the feat.
The Defensive Wall
While Edwards and Bell grabbed headlines, the defense has gotten better and better all season. Leading the charge is linebackers Bryun Parham and Oumar Diomande, two sideline-to-sideline enforcers who rank among the nation's elite tacklers.
The red-shirt senior Parham is a tackling machine, sitting fifth nationally with 108 total stops and averaging 9.8 tackles per game. But perhaps more impressive was the emergence of red-shirt freshman Diomande, who played with the poise of a veteran. With 103 total tackles (eighth nationally), 56 solo stops (sixth nationally), and 9.4 tackles per game (15th nationally).
