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Huskies are surprise in Big East, national title races

By Joe Starkey
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The University of Connecticut fielded its first football team in 1896, right around the time Joe Paterno applied for the Penn State coaching job. A little more than 11 decades later, people are beginning to notice. The New York Times featured UConn football in Monday's editions, under the headline, "Fast-rising Connecticut Has the Inside Track to the Big East Title." It was not a misprint. And we're not talking about basketball. The Huskies, who were picked to finish seventh in an eight- ...

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