AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Joe Fagnano threw for three touchdowns, Cam Edwards ran for 142 yards and accounted for two touchdowns and UConn outlasted UMass 47-42 on Saturday to end the regular season for both teams.

Oh, so close.That has certainly been the theme for this year’s UMass football team. And it was again, one final time on Saturday afternoon at McGuirk Alumni Stadium as the Minutemen fell 47-42 to UConn – which played spoiler to UMass’

The Minutemen fired Don Brown prior to last week’s game against Georgia. After Brown’s dismissal, the Minutemen immediately began a search for a new head coach for the program.

The Huskies (8-4) wrested control of the game in the second half and beat UMass, 47-42, before 10,365 at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Saturday to pad their bowl resume with their eighth win, the most by the football program since the Big East championship and Fiesta Bowl year of 2010.

The UConn football team won its eighth game, the most since 2010, as QB Joe Fagnano and running back Cam Edwards led the Huskies over UMass.

Joe Fagnano threw for three touchdowns, Cam Edwards ran for 142 yards and accounted for two touchdowns and UConn outlasted UMass 47-42 on Saturday to end the regular season for both teams.

UConn football survived a back-and-forth affair at UMass, prevailing 47-42 at McGuirk Stadium to end their regular season 8-4, the program’s best mark since 2010. Joe Fagnano threw three touchdown passes while Cam Edwards rushed for 142 yards on 18 carries with two total TDs and Durrell Robinson added 83 yards on 11 carries with a TD as both running backs averaged over 7.