These Huskies have more hot and cold flashes than a woman in her 50s. The football team spent most of last season learning how to win, and only figured it out in time to finish with a 6-5 record. This year, preseason expectations ran high for a fighting chance at the league championship. St. Mary s, beating them up and down the field in a 24-16 win that wasn t as close as it sounded. Mental mistakes cost the UConn game, and the Huskies bounced back with a monstrous thrashing of Rhode Island, setting the stage for what promised to be a historic game against Delaware.
History is the right word, thank goodness.
Don t bother looking at the score from this weekend, because it doesn t begin to tell the story of a game that was close until the offense mysteriously disappeared late in the third quarter. The Huskies had the Blue Hens shedding feathers at one point in the third, when Andre Dixon made a pretty interception right after an NU touchdown. That set Marvelous Murphy and the Murphyettes up at the Delaware 36, down 17-14. During the season so far, the members of the team have spoken unflinchingly about their ability to win a championship. We can do it, they all agree.