UConn cancels 2020 football season

UConn will not play any football games in 2020.

After a decade of complete futility, UConn decided to leave the AAC in favor of going independent to try and jar their program back to reality. Unfortunately for Husky fans pining for the glory days, their rise back to the top will have to wait until

Randy Edsall’s Huskies will have to wait until 2021 to reassert themselves in the college football landscape, as they became the first team in the FBS to cancel all their games in the 2020 season amid the coronavirus pandemic. North Carolina, Virginia, and Ole Miss all had the Huskies on their schedule in 2020.

UConn has had a rough go of it over the last few seasons.

The Huskins haven’t finished over .500 since the 2010-11 season, and they have managed just one season with three or more wins since they joined the AAC in 2013. Even though they brought Edsall, who led UConn to four straight bowls in the late 2000s before taking the Maryland job, back as head coach, his six wins over the last three seasons show that he hasn’t been able to recapture the glory days.

There are very few programs in the country, if any, that can match the level of dysfunction surrounding the Huskies. Not only does Edsall’s team routinely struggle to beat FCS schools, but the school as a whole lost $42 million in their athletic department last season. Maybe a year off is exactly what this decaying husk of a program needs to get back on track.

While UConn’s program has been shambolic over the last few seasons, that doesn’t make their decision to back out of the season any less shocking. The Huskies will likely not be the only team to decide to cancel the entire season in the name of safety.