But on Saturday against Wyoming the Huskies held a fourth-quarter lead and were a successful two-point conversion away from sending that game into overtime. Playing for interim head coach Lou Spanos, UConn ranks near the bottom in the FBS in most every major statistical category. The Huskies, who did not play a 2020 season and who compete as an independent, have dropped nine in a row overall dating to 2019 and are 9-44 in their last 53. UConn heads to town having lost to Fresno State, Holy Cross, Purdue, Army and Wyoming, respectively. “As we get the program and the team to a point where we’re having the success that we know that we can have, it’s going to be about highlighting team and unity performance, a togetherness that puts us in the best position to win.” In a losing effort, in a game that really was so frustrating and discouraging in general, you find individuals and individual play that gives you some energy and spark moving forward. “What I saw on Saturday were certain individuals that were playing at a high, competitive level. Do we want to be defeated or do we want to find a way through it?” Lea said. “I think it’s just a matter of the choices. There is no greater time to do that than this week. Lea has preached this fall about winning the response no matter the outcome on Saturdays. But the bottom fell out in a loss to the Bulldogs in which the scoreboard read 28-0 less than nine minutes into the affair. Vanderbilt had shown some mild improvements over the first few weeks in games against East Tennessee State, Colorado State and Stanford, respectively. The belief in what we can do and the energy and enthusiasm toward what this program is capable of hasn’t waned at all.” “We had an honest assessment of what happened Saturday of the places that we can get better both in coaching the game and in playing the game and we moved on from it. There’s a bounce-back spirit in the building. “But Monday we met as a team to move past the game, review the game and then started work on UConn. And everyone’s disappointed,” Vanderbilt head coach Clark Lea said. Saturday for a game televised live by ESPNU. They welcome UConn (0-5) to Nashville at 6:30 p.m. 2 Georgia on Saturday at Vanderbilt Stadium) and are in desperate need of some good vibes before ending the campaign with seven straight SEC contests.

The Commodores (1-3) are coming off one of the worst losses in program history (62-0 to No. With one-third of the 2021 season in the books, Vanderbilt looks toward the month of October and one final nonconference matchup in which to set itself back on the correct trajectory.

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