UConn football notes: Huskies, again, fail to make critical plays in deciding moments

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – For 45 minutes of game time, the UConn football team was not only hanging with a power conference opponent, but dominating it.

Hundreds of Syracuse fans left the JMA Wireless Dome disappointed before the fourth quarter started. They missed everything go sideways for Jim Mora’s Huskies.

What looked for a while to be a meaningful victory for the trajectory of the program ended as a familiar one-score, heartbreaking loss to an ACC opponent as the Huskies failed to make the critical plays to put the game away.

After D’Mon Brinson’s fourth-quarter interception – the kind of play the Huskies needed – the offense struggled to complete a pass or break open any chunk plays on the ground, holding the door open and almost daring the Orangemen, who only had 21 total yards in the th