Originally Posted by
dawg80
Back to Week 12...
So, not only is Gameday at UCF but their game tonite is on ABC Primetime.
What a roller coaster ride they have been on in the last 20 years! They go from 12-1 and beating a P5 in a nice bowl game, one year, to 0-12 soon there after, to back to a series of 10 and 11 win seasons, back to 0-12 again. Sheesh! They are all over the map! George O'Leary is mostly responsible for their ups and downs, but his tenure finally ended in 2015 during yet another 0-12 season. Now they are riding the crest of a 22-game win streak....their last loss was to Arkansas State! in 2016....and the toast of all we "little guys."
And to think, back in 1998, we were in the same boat with UCF. I posted elsewhere the brief history of us and UCF being courted by the Belch back then, since we were both independents. Yes, UCF has some advantages over us, the enrollment of their school, being in a large population center, etc...but given where we both started from, in 1998, they have rejected the notion it couldn't be done and ask "Why not us?"