The Papajohn’s Bowl is coming once again and this time is going to be held between the Connecticut Huskies (7-5) and the South Carolina Gamecocks (7-5). This time the bowl will be held at the Legion Field located at Birmingham Alabama. The game is scheduled to start at 2:00 PM ET and is going to be televised around the whole nation via ESPN.

The Huskies are known mostly for their running game, and backs Jordan Todman and Andre Dixon combined for more than 2,000 rushing yards this season. More than that, though, the passing game finally started to develop late in the year with quarterback Zach Frazer at the helm. UConn scored 45 points against Cincinnati, 33 at Notre Dame, 56 against Syracuse and 29 in the snow against South Florida on Saturday, engineering a winning field goal drive with less than a minute to play.

Here we have some stats on the teams that will help us a little bit to see easier who has the advantage and who is behind the lead.

Total yards
•    South Carolina has 359.3 yards which locates them at the 76th place
•    Connecticut Huskies 398.4 yards which locates them at the 47th place

Passing yards
•    South Carolina 253.3 yards which locates them at the 38th place
•    Connecticut Huskies 236.9 yards which locates them at the 47th place

Rushing yards
•    South Carolina 125.0 yards which locates them at the 91st place
•    Connecticut Huskies 172.8 yards which locates them at the 41st place

Points scored
•    South Carolina 21.8 points which locates them at the 98th place
•    Connecticut Huskies 32.1 points which locates them at the 27th place

The Huskies are one of the best stories of the bowl season, having overcome the death of Jasper Howard in October to rally together and make the postseason. They should get the bulk of the support from the nonpartisan fans sitting in the Birmingham stands and watching this game on TV.
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said the Gamecocks weren’t picky, that they’d go play wherever they were told to go. As it turns out, they were the last team picked in the SEC’s bowl pecking order and will square off against Connecticut in the PapaJohns.com Bowl.

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