The 2021 season's largest margin: UMass 27, UConn 13. A 14-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2021 — The Correction
2021 is a losing-side chapter for UMass. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Brady OlsonQB1,145 passing yards
- Tyler LytleQB394 passing yards
- Ellis MerriweatherRB1,138 rushing yards
- Rico ArnoldWR461 receiving yards
- Tray PettwayWR217 receiving yards
- Gerrell JohnsonLB81 tackles
- Da'Shon RossLB75 tackles
- Te'Rai PowellDB56 tackles
- Uchenna EzewikeDE2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2021.
The season's deepest loss: UMass 3, Florida State 59. A 56-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Rise as one."
2021 sits in UMass's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.