text: EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — A week after losing to Temple on a last-second play, UCF made sure it didn't blow another fourth-quarter lead.
  Arkeel Newsome ran 21 times for 101 yards and Noel Thomas had his fifth-straight 100-yard receiving game for UConn, catching nine passes for 165 yards.
  But the Knights scored at the end of the first half on 19-yard pass from Milton to freshman Jordan Akins and took the lead on the first drive of the second half, when Milton hit running back and Mainland High product Adrian Killins over the middle for a 39-yard touchdown. It was the third consecutive drive of more than 70 yards for UCF.
  "That was a big deal, it was a big moment," UConn coach Bob Diaco said of Akins touchdown. "We let the proverbial rope slip out of our hand a little bit there in the final minute-and-a-half of the half."
  It was the fourth start of the season for the freshman Milton, who started again over senior Justin Holman. Milton's 317 yards passing were the most since Holman threw for 336 yards against Temple in 2014.