NCAA Football: Georgia St. at Connecticut - Source: Imagn
The UConn Huskies (6-3) were able to maintain their lead over the Georgia State Panthers (2-6) and escape Week 10 with a 34-27 home victory. This game was a back-and-forth affair but the Huskies were able to have the running game control things and left with the victory.
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The Panthers fall to 2-6 and continue to search for answers as they reside near the bottom of the Sun Belt Conference standings. In order to make the postseason, they would now need to win the last four games on their schedule and that is a tall order to ask out of them.
The Huskies were able to become bowl-eligible with this win and were able to do well enough to secure a victory. Let’s take a closer look at the box scores for each team to determine how this game went.
This game was a very entertaining back-and-forth matchup between two teams that are not very similar at all.
The Panthers were able to move the chains well, as they were 8-of-17 on third downs and 3-of-3 on fourth down attempts. However, the team did throw for a pair of interceptions to kill drives. Georgia State was also a bit undisciplined, as they committed nine penalties for 95 yards.
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The Huskies were able to run the ball extremely well as quarterback Nick Evers did not throw much in the game.
UConn was able to run the ball 42 times for 272 yards (6.5 yards per attempt) and that was the difference as Georgia State could not figure out a way to slow them down. Below is the scoring breakdown throughout the game.
12:31 1Q: Nick Evers 2 Yard Passing TD to Louis Hansen | 7-0 Connecticut
3:36 1Q: Chris Freeman 42 Yard Field Goal | 10-0 Connecticut
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