Jason Candle meets old foe as UConn football travels to Miami, Ohio, first time: H…
UConn · Miami (Ohio) · OhioIt won’t be the same case for first-year head coach Jason Candle and nearly one-third of the Huskies’ roster that came with him from Toledo. He and coach Chuck Martin have a bit of a history as both took over their respective Mid-American Conference programs two years apart, though ...
Candle is 3-1 all-time against Martin's RedHawks and won twice in Oxford, including a 24-3 road victory for his Rockets last fall. Miami's only win in the series came in the 2023 MAC Championship , 24-13, and it went on to finish with an 11-3 record.
"Played against them the last few years, my years at Toledo, and they're a tough team, they're a tough out. You've got to go beat them and to do it on their home field will be a great challenge for us.
They don't give up a lot of plays, they won't make a lot of mistakes and they're solid in all three phases." Miami comes into the game 1-2 after falling at Pittsburgh (59-14) and Cincinnati (35-31), with a 45-7 win over Holy Cross sandwiched between.
KEY POINTS
- Jason Candle meets old foe as UConn football travels to Miami, Ohio, first time: How to watch.
- Saturday will be the first time the UConn football program ever visits Oxford, Ohio, and the Miami RedHawks.
- "Coach Martin's done an outstanding job for a long time," Candle said.
- Quarterback David McComb , a sophomore transfer from Kansas seeing his first action in college, leads the nation in average yards per completion at 17.6 (UConn's Kalieb Osborne is No. 20 at 14.1).