Indiana football and the University of Connecticut will no longer play in a previously scheduled nonconference game during the 2026 season, an Indiana Athletics spokesperson confirmed to the Indiana Daily Student on Wednesday.
No information regarding a replacement game was provided.
The Hoosiers and Huskies were originally supposed to face off for the second time Sept. 26, 2020, at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut, to finish a home-and-home series. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused UConn to cancel its season, the two schools rescheduled the game for Sept. 26, 2026. Indiana won the first meeting 38-3 on Sept. 21, 2019.
Both teams are led by different head coaches than the ones who agreed to the series. Indiana fired Tom Allen and replaced him with Curt Cignetti following the 2023 season, while UConn’s Randy Edsall retired during the 2021 season. Jim Mora now coaches the Huskies.
Indiana will open the 2026 season Sept. 5 against Colorado State University at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington. Colorado State is the Hoosiers’ lone confirmed non-conference game thus far for 2026.
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