EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Deshon Foxx ran for 102 yards and a score and Noel Thomas caught two touchdown passes and last-place UConn upset first-place UCF 37-29 on Saturday.
The win snapped a five-game losing streak for UConn (2-6, 1-4 American Athletic Conference) and was the first conference loss for UCF (5-3, 3-1) which had won 11 straight since the inception of the AAC last year.
William Stanback had a career-high 141 yards rushing and two touchdowns for UCF. Quarterback Justin Holman threw for 284 yards and two scores. But he also threw four interceptions, three of them to safety Andrew Adams.
Foxx, who normally plays wide receiver, ran the Huskies option package, carrying the ball 11 times, including a 68-yard touchdown run.
UConn had not scored more than 21 points in a game this season. The Huskies' only other win came against Stony Brook, an FCS school, 19-16 on Sept. 6.
The win capped an emotional homecoming for UConn, which unveiled a memorial at halftime to Jasper Howard, a cornerback who was stabbed to death on campus in 2009.