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Connecticut racked up 506 yards of offense en route to a 45-10 victory at a sold-out Rentschler Field last night improving to 3-0.

Making a case as the best running back in the Big East, Donald Brown, ran for 206 yards and three scores (youtube highlights). Uconn scored touchdowns on its first four drives and this puppy was over early. Brown is the nation's second-leading rusher, averaging 188 yards per game -- he had 112 yards and two touchdowns at the half and didn't even play in the fourth quarter.

Uconn had first-half drives of 70, 77, 86 and 75 yards, building a 28-0 lead and holding on the ball for an amazing 20 minutes. Connecticut would finish with 382 on the ground, while holding Virginia (1-2) to 219 yards of total offense -- most of that late. Putting things into perspective this was a great win -- but UVA will struggle to win 2 more game this year, they have very litte.

Back to the good news for those around the Nutmeg State this morning -- Tyler Lorenzen finished 13-for-15 for 124 yards and a TD. He also ran for 52 yards and did not throw any picks, looking like the Lorenzen of last season again. Granted a little of that was UVA's doing (i'm just saying) -- but its a start. Zero turnovers on the night for the Huskies is more like Edsall football than what we saw in the first two games.

CB extraordinaire, Darius Butler, had some action at wide receiver and actually scored on his first career carry, a 13-yard end around in the second quarter. Butler also had two grabs for 40 yards, and had two kick returns for 49 yards.

Also attending the party was highly touted freshman tailback Jordan Todman, making his debut, carrying the ball 13 times for 81 yards and a fourth-quarter TD.

A revived Husky team will return to action this Friday as they host the Big 12's Baylor Bears, the game is actually on a real station ESPN2 -- i'm sooo bitter about ESPNU and Dolan-Cable-vision.

A few tickets are still available at uconnhuskies.com or directly from ticketmaster

Post Game Quotes:

Uconn HC, Randy Edsall,
“This was a great win for us and the kids played very, very well. We had a good week of practice, prepared well, and came out here tonight very focused. Offensively that is probably as good of a first half that we played since I’ve been here. We were hitting on all cylinders and everybody was contributing. Defensively we played well so it was a total team effort. I am very proud of our guys.”

UVA HC, Al Groh,

On the play of UConn’s RB Donald Brown & Tyler Lorenzen:

“He was who we thought he would be. He’s very good. Fast, competitive – obviously – more than what we prepared for. [Lorenzen was] very strong. His ability to get drives started early on, throw accurately, get out of the pocket had us coming and going. The combo of his outstanding play, Donald brown’s outstanding play and our shortcomings in certain areas… it was coming from every direction.”

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the USA Today and AP polls were realesed today, Uconn is still in the recieving votes categroy, but moving up -- now around top 35, click here for full polls, top 25