 They would receive a special waiver from the NCAA in order to play in Memorial Stadium while Rentschler Field was under construction.UConn would become the first school to ever move from the FCS to the Bowl Championship Series as a member of the Big East after 3 years as an independent.The Huskies would spend the 2000 and 2001 as a transitional Division I-A program as they built their scholarship base to the maximum of 85.