Don't feel great, but don't feel bad. We won on the road with depleted DB's and depleted RB's. We won on the road with multiple undisciplined penalties. We won on the road with 3 score changing turnovers (2 fumbles in FG territory and throwing a pick 6). The following is just rambling thoughts on what I have read here and is JMHO.
Offense -- UConn scouts our offense and they see 3rd-6th RB's. They see a transfer QB with 2 transfer WR's with limited time in the offense. The rest of our WR's have a rep of poor hands. Our TE's are not known as pass catchers. So, they commit to stopping the run. They don't really stack the box. Rod Smith's offense doesn't really allow for putting 8+ defenders in the box. But, they jam or blitz the line with 5 or 6 guys on almost every play. (Interestingly, the screen for a TD was one of the few plays they only rushed 4.) They do this all game. Even when we are scoring on them. Our front 5 are going against 5 or 6 at the line on most plays and we still get 130 yds rushing (with backups and almost 20 yds lost on 2 fumbles). Some on here wanted to see smash mouth football to defeat this. Sorry. Rod Smith is just not ever going to do that. Interestingly, he didn't really change his approach. When we went down 0-13, he had 7 runs and 7 passes. When we scored 24 straight he had 12 runs and 13 passes. Very much like Peters' game so far. He has only been in our offense for (what?), 6 weeks, and hasn't really been in a college game for 19 months. Very pleased with what he has given us.
Defense -- Lovie went pretty vanilla. He needed to help his secondary as much as possible and, I imagine, felt pretty comfortable with his front 4. So, he relied on them (with a few LB plays thrown in). They more than validated his decision. We need to remember what Lovie's defense is. Bend, don't break and create TO's. UConn had 4 offensive scores. 3 were FG's. Bend, don't break. They had a Freshman QB we couldn't game film for. Also, his leading yardage receiver was another Freshman. I would imagine those 2 have been playing pitch and catch all summer.
The Pick 6 -- This was an interesting play. First, offensively, it is 2nd and long and the corner is playing 10+ yards off the ball. Peters makes the right call and throws a quick hitch as soon as he gets the ball. Complete it for 4 or 5 and see if the WR can get more. Create a 3rd and short. The receiver runs the wrong route. You could see the ball was way behind the receiver. The WR stops where he is supposed to and he either comes back to the ball for the catch or is in a position to break up the int. Defensively, I can't decide if this was really lucky or really good. The replay shows the DB was sprinting out to cover the flat on the snap. No reading of the QB. Either he was supposed to cover that area and was hustling out and was in the right place at the right time; he was guessing and was really lucky; or their DC had seen something and it was called. Probably the first.
The negatives, (players out, penalties, TO's) are changeable. Remains to be scene how much they get fixed. We are 2-0.