UConn announces four-game football series with Syracuse

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The UConn football program added a four-game series with Syracuse that will begin in 2022 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, the school announced on Friday.

The teams will meet again in 2025 and 2026 in Syracuse, with the final game to be played in East Hartford in 2027.

Former Big East rivals, UConn and Syracuse have met 11 times, with the Huskies holding a 6-5 lead in the series. UConn won six of the first eight meetings, but has lost the past three, including a 40-10 decision in 2012, the last time the programs met.

Syracuse last played at Rentschler Field in 2011, with the Huskies taking a 28-21 decision.

UConn, which was 2-10 in its final season as a member of the American Athletic Conference, begins play as an independent Football Bowl Subdivision program this fall.

With agreements to play Syracuse and Boston College, UConn will play two former conference foes in the 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 and 2027. Both teams are on the schedule in 2022.

The 2021 and 2022 schedules are not complete, but they do include games against Purdue and Michigan out of the Big Ten, and Clemson, Syracuse, North Carolina State and Boston College of the ACC. There is a 2021 game against Purdue and 2022 contests versus Syracuse and Boston College scheduled for Rentschler Field.

The UConn-Syracuse four-game set begins in East Hartford on Sept. 10, 2022. The Huskies will play at Syracuse on Sept. 6, 2025 and Oct. 3, 2026 and then Syracuse comes to Rentschler on Nov. 6, 2027.

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UConn’s announced future games:

2020: Sept. 3 vs. UMass; Sept. 12 at Illinois; Sept. 19 at Virginia; Sept. 26 vs. Indiana; Oct. 3 vs. Old Dominion; Oct. 10 vs. Maine, Oct. 24 at Mississippi; Oct. 31 vs. Liberty; Nov. 7 at North Carolina; Nov. 14 at San Jose State; Nov. 21 vs. Middle Tennessee State; Nov. 28 vs. Army

2021: Aug. 28 at Fresno State; Sept. 2 vs. Holy Cross; Sept. 11 vs. Purdue; Sept. 18 at Army; Oct. 9 at UMass; Oct. 23 vs. Middle Tennessee; Nov. 13 at Clemson; Nov. 20 at UCF

2022: Aug. 27 at Utah State; Sept. 3 vs. Central Connecticut; Sept. 10 vs. Syracuse; Sept. 17 at Michigan; Sept. 24 at North Carolina State; Oct. 1 vs. Fresno State; Oct. 15 at Ball State; Oct. 29 vs. Boston College; Nov. 19 at Army

2023: Sept. 2 vs. Duke; Sept. 9 vs. Lafayette; Sept. 23 vs. North Carolina State; Sept. 30 vs. Utah State; Oct. 28 at Boston College; Nov. 4 at Tennessee; Nov. 11 at Liberty

2024: Aug. 31 at Maryland; Sept. 7 vs. Army; Sept. 14 at Duke; Sept. 28 vs. Buffalo

2025: Aug. 30 vs. Central Connecticut; Sept. 6 at Syracuse; Sept. 13 at Purdue; Sept. 20 vs. Ball State; Sept. 27 at Buffalo; Oct. 11 at Army

2026: Sept. 5 vs. Lafayette; Sept. 12 vs. Maryland; Sept. 19 at North Carolina; Oct. 3 at Syracuse

2027: Sept. 18 vs. North Carolina; Nov. 6 vs. Syracuse; Nov. 27 vs. Army

2028: Sept. 16 vs. San Jose State; Sept. 23 vs. Buffalo; Oct. 14 at Army

2029: Sept. 15 at Buffalo; Nov. 10 vs. Army