Temple opens as a 9.5 point favorite over UMass.
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The UConn Blog (good name) looks at the Huskies remaining 2022 opponents including UMass, Liberty and Army.
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E.J. Warner, the son of NFL Hall-of-Fame QB Kurt Warner started for Temple as a true freshman last week.
Warner, A true freshman should face a challenge against Don Brown's defense. The UMass defense has a chance to confuse a true freshman in his second start.
Warner was a three-star recruit and had eleven offers including UConn and Temple.
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I usually DVD three or four college football games and then watch them over the course of the next week.
Yesterday I watched the Liberty-Wake Forest game and it was a doozy. If your cable company offers the ACC network, they might replay it.
Liberty's starting QB Charlie Brewer is out four to six weeks with an injury, which means he won't be available for the UMass game.
Enter Flames backup QB Kaidron Salter. He looked raw against Wake Forest, throwing three INT's and fumbled the ball deep in Liberty's side of the field resulting in an eventual Deacons TD. That was his bad side.
On his good side, Salter all by himself almost equaled the offensive output of the Sam Hartman led Wake Forest offense. Salter accounted for 333 yards of offense (256 passing, 75 rushing). Salter engineered a furious Flames comeback scoring with about a minute to go to make it 36-37 Wake Forest. Liberty went for the two point conversion and the win and did not get it.
When the Flames come visiting on October 8th, UMass better stay in the Nickle and spy Salter with the best-tacking DB or he is going to run the Minutemen out of McGuirk. He's a lot faster than our front seven...
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