The University of Connecticut began playing football in 1896.​

For more than a century UConn was a small regional power and in the 1990s was still competing below the top NCAA Division, commonly called FBS. UConn hired a new Athletic Director, Lew Perkins, who made it his mission to move the Huskies football program from Division 1-AA to the big time, FBS.​

The program began it's transition in 2000 and under Coach Randy Edsall quickly started showing signs of progress. They notched their first win vs an FBS team in their first transitional season, a 24-21 win over the University of Buffalo. The following season they defeated their first power conference program, a win over Rutgers.

In 2002 UConn became a full FBS member and joined the Big East Conference in 2004. In less than a decade the Huskies won 3 Bowl Games, won 2 Big East Conference Championships and played in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, a BCS Bowl.

But immediately after the Fiesta Bowl Randy Edsall abandoned the program and kicked off a decade of instability in Storrs. A time where over the course of 10 season the Huskies would only win 22 games vs FBS schools.

But on November 11th, 2021 UConn shocked the college football world when they hired former NFL and UCLA Bruins coach, Jim Mora.

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