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There are only two weeks left in college football’s regular season, as some teams jockey for playoff position and conference titles, while others gear up for massive rivalry showdowns.
In Week 11, Alabama and Tennessee got back on track with wins over Ole Miss and Missouri, respectively. Washington ended Oregon’s eight-game win streak, while TCU’s season stayed perfect after handling Texas.
Saturday also brought a few lucky teams to bowl eligibility, several upsets, big plays and a jaw-dropping catch of the year. Let’s catch up on the best moments from the week.
UConn is bowl eligible!
Week 11 provided a lion’s share of shocks. Arizona (+20 vs. UCLA), Boston College (+18 vs. NC State), Vanderbilt (+17 vs. Kentucky), UL-Monroe (+13.5 vs. Georgia State) and Washington (+12 vs. Oregon) all won as double-digit underdogs, with Vandy ending a long SEC losing streak and Arizona ending UCLA’s College Football Playoff hopes. All were incredible results, but the most momentous surprise of the week came in East Hartford, where UConn overcame a solid Liberty defense, two second-half deficits and, well, a horrid recent history to score its sixth win of the season.
Jim Mora’s Huskies trailed Hugh Freeze’s Flames by scores of 27-21 and 33-28 in the second half, but they blew up a Liberty fourth-down attempt near midfield with 8:40 left, scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 30-yard Zion Turner-to-Kevens Clercius strike, then ended the game with one last fourth-down stop in the final minute.
This is a win for the ages! @UConnFootball whups up on 19th ranked Liberty to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2015. You gotta believe!
pic.twitter.com/VEtwQ3NU1O— Governor Ned Lamont (@GovNedLamont) November 12, 2022
Bowl. Eligible. UConn. Even the Connecticut governor and UConn hockey fans were psyched up about it.
The XL Center crowd erupts as the PA announces that UConn football beat Liberty and is now bowl eligible pic.twitter.com/vJlaXNty6J
— Daniel Connolly…
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