2023 Season

[minutefanjsf]

Is there any indication yet where the game against UConn will be?

99% Fenway. Bamford said he would announce within the next three weeks.

Screw having more Fenway games and lining the pockets of Dr. Creepy. I’d rather watch Umass play at Nickerson Field or the field in Eastie near the airport.

I hate Fenway games. But, without a two tiered ticket price (unless all STH would get Putnam club) it is not at Gillette, IMO.

[Old Cage]

PLEASE not a Fenway game!

[Steve81]

PLEASE not a Fenway game!

Common Old Cage, it's the Yankee Bowl game at Fenway for New England teams.

[Quann]

Is there any indication yet where the game against UConn will be?

99% Fenway. Bamford said he would announce within the next three weeks.

Screw having more Fenway games and lining the pockets of Dr. Creepy. I’d rather watch Umass play at Nickerson Field or the field in Eastie near the airport.

Love it. The Fenway schtick is played out for football and hockey games. It’s just not a good viewing experience.

[Jack]

Screw having more Fenway games and lining the pockets of Dr. Creepy. I’d rather watch Umass play at Nickerson Field or the field in Eastie near the airport.

I'd rather watch a double header at Harvard Stadium: Harvard v. Yale followed by UMass v. ucon.

[eldonabe]

PLEASE not a Fenway game!

The closest Umass football ever gets to playing in a Bowl Game is to play a regular season game in a venue that at least hosts a Bowl game.

[Old Cage]

^ I would not have a problem with any venue that would actually let my 82 year old eyes see the game. I agree with Quann that the “viewing experience” at Fenway - in a word - sucks.

[Steve81]

^ I would not have a problem with any venue that would actually let my 82 year old eyes see the game. I agree with Quann that the “viewing experience” at Fenway - in a word - sucks.

You guys need to think about the football program and UMass. This game is about showcasing the UConn - UMass Football rivalry with 76 years and extended through 2027 for future conference, conference affiliation and media exposure.

The UConn–UMass football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the UConn Huskies football team of the University of Connecticut and the UMass Minutemen football team of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[2]

The rivalry was dormant from the 2000 season, when UConn moved to FBS, until 2012, when UMass traveled to Rentschler Field to play the Huskies in the season opener.[3]

History
The first game played between the two schools took place on November 6, 1897, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts won 36–0. At the time, UMass was known as Massachusetts Agricultural College and Connecticut was officially Storrs Agricultural College. They had formed a loose association with other public colleges in New England such as present day New Hampshire and Rhode Island for the purpose of scheduling football matchups between the schools.[4]
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UMass leads the all-time series 38-36–2. Massachusetts dominated the rivalry early, winning the first eight and 13 of the first 15 meetings between the two universities. Connecticut went on a streak of their own after that, winning 14 of the next 16 games. The 1960s again belonged to the then-Redmen of Massachusetts, as they lost only two games that decade. In the remaining years of the rivalry, the series was much more even, with neither team able to put together a winning streak of more than four games.[4]
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On October 31, 2022, UConn and UMass extended the rivalry games through 2027, including a neutral site game in 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UConn%E2% ... ss_rivalry

[Jack]

PLEASE not a Fenway game!

The closest Umass football ever gets to playing in a Bowl Game is to play a regular season game in a venue that at least hosts a Bowl game.

Please google 1964 Tangerine Bowl.

[airlaguerre12]

Massachusetts o/u 1.5 regular season victories -140 per DK sports

[minutefanjsf]

Massachusetts o/u 1.5 regular season victories -140 per DK sports

can you bet that in Massachusetts?

[TruBluMaroon]

PLEASE not a Fenway game!

The closest Umass football ever gets to playing in a Bowl Game is to play a regular season game in a venue that at least hosts a Bowl game.

Please google 1964 Tangerine Bowl.

The 1972 Boardwalk Bowl……making the Atlantic City Convention Center the only venue to host both football and basketball!

[km109]

Have to add the Astrodome. Home of Houston football and the Houston vs UCLA "Game of the Century".

[TruBluMaroon]

^ Atlantic City Convention Center is the only site to host UM football and UM basketball.

[InnervisionsUMASS]

"2023 college football independents preview: Burning questions, players to watch"
ESPN+ required to read:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/i ... yers-watch