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South End Zone History in Bounce House: Last Second Defensive Stands

That South End Zone has seen some of the best UCF Defensive stands in late game moments.

Some that I was thinking last night:

Overtime INT to secure Southern Miss victory.

Last second stand as Houston got within the 10 yd line and had multiple shots in the end zone.

OT Defensive Stand vs BYU (Thanks @RoverKnight)

(80% sure on this one...not 100%) Defensive Stand vs Memphis in 2017 AAC Champ Game....as Memphis missed last second FG for the win...and then in OT, after UCF scored a TD...UCF intercepted Memphis QB and sealed the win and title.

Add last night's stand at the 3 yd line in UCF victory lore.

PS. Are there any others that come to mind? Maybe @Brandon has a better memory than me.

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Bring KZ home

We have had a lot of good news in the last 12 months, but it has also been a lot of swirl.

One person I think we owe a lot to is KZ.
He became a fan hero and a National story. Bringing him home would be another National story and he would be a great player to give a shot as an analyst. Who here would support bringing home KZ? I for one think it would be good for our fanbase too.

Prediction for 2022

My two cents on next year. With DG gone, I think the team will really rally around MK and TC. I fully expect Keene to be the starter next season. He did a very serviceable job this year filling in for DG, and many of the mistakes he made could be chalked up to lack of experience. TC may be the more talented of the two, but he will still be a freshman, and not sure if he needs time to adapt to college speed. But either way, I do think that Gus would find ways to get TC into games in order to get him some valuable experience.

I think our defense will continue to improve, and will be creating all sorts of havoc on opposing offenses next year. We may not be seeing the 30+ points on a regular basis that we saw under Frost/Heupel, but we won't need to with the way our defense will be shutting down other teams. Get used to a lot of 24-10 type of wins.

I think we have a pretty decent chance to get back into the NY6 next year. Not as an undefeated team - but as a solid 10-2 or maybe even 9-3 team. I don't see Boise bouncing back next year. Our primary competition for NY6 will likely come from San Diego State, or if someone out of the Sunbelt or CUSA runs the table with an undefeated record.
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AAC Bowl Picture: Tulsa is now bowl eligible

Tulsa just beat SMU on their home turf, which probably isn't that surprising since Sonny Dykes is a lameduck coach having already secretly-accepted the TCU job.

So that gives the AAC six bowl eligible teams, and there will be a seventh if Memphis beats Tulane tonight.

Cincinnati
Houston
SMU
UCF
ECU
Tulsa
Memphis*

UCF people have continued to say Hawaii is out and they are hoping for a bowl game in Florida. Maybe Tulsa goes to Hawaii?

Lots of chatter Gasparilla could be an all-Florida matchup between UCF, UF or UM - any combination (it could be UF vs. UM). That's one of the bowls with flexible tie-ins.

UCF WBB

I think more notice should be paid to the job Coach Abe has done with our Women's Basketball team. The team was in a bad place when she was hired and she's turned the whole thing around. This year the team has a very challenging OOC schedule where 6 of the teams could be in the NCAA Tournament at the end of the year. We've also gotten multiple top 100 recruits to commit.

In the class of 2021 we got the #81 player in the country in Laila Jewett. In the class of 2022 we have two top 100 players in: #46 Savannah Henderson and as of Friday #65 Amiya Evans.

Everyone from last year's NCAA team is back this year plus Jewett and a couple of transfers. Should be an exciting year!
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