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POLL: Time to bring back Glycerin?
- By KAWknight
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With the loss of Oklahoma’s “Boomer & Sooner”, the Big XII’s couples-mascots will be down to Arizona’s “Wilber & Wilma”, Colorado’s “Ralphie & Chip”, and West Virginia’s “Mountaineer & his sister.” Is it time to bring back Knightro’s explosive girlfriend from the 90s?
Article: Building Character: How Knightro Landed a Date for Homecoming
Fanatics Black Friday Sale - 30% off sitewide
- By Brandon
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It includes almost everything except the 2023 Space Game gear (blue jersey, blue polo, etc.).
Link to the Nike gear:
fanatics.ncw6.net
Link to the Nike gear:
UCF Nike Gear, UCF Knights Nike Jerseys, Polos, Shirts | Fanatics
Support the Swoosh with UCF Nike apparel and gear at Fanatics.com. Display your spirit with officially licensed UCF Nike jerseys, shirts, polos and more from the ultimate sports store.
Women/Girls Try Hockey for FREE
- By UCFWayne
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All Girls Try Hockey for Free is on Friday November 24th. Check in time is from 4:00-5:00 PM and skaters are on the ice from 5:00-6:00 PM.
Learn hockey skills, stick handling from Orlando Ice Den coaches!
Skaters are asked to bring a bike helmet, gloves and to wear warm clothes on the ice!
Email ashley.roseman@orlandoiceden.com with any questions.
One Kid Orlando Charity Plea
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Hello,
I’ve come on here before to inform you all about a charity run by former players Anthony Roberson and Jordan Johnson. The name of the organization is One Kid Orlando. I joined their Board this past year. I know it is short notice but Anthony just flew into town from LA and would like to have a toy drop off before the game Saturday. He and I will be in front of the Honors College from 8-11 if you’d like to come by and drop off an unwrapped toy and chat with Anthony for a bit. All items will be taken to Boys and Girls Clubs in underserved parts of Orlando so those kiddos can enjoy the Holiday Spirit. If stopping by the tailgate is out of your way and you’d like to donate to the cause here are the links to some ways to send money to a good cause. We are also working with UCF to possibly do a toy drop before the Ole Miss basketball game soon. Thanks for taking a minute to read.
onekidorlando.com
TL/DR - Want to help a good cause? Click on a link above and donate.
I’ve come on here before to inform you all about a charity run by former players Anthony Roberson and Jordan Johnson. The name of the organization is One Kid Orlando. I joined their Board this past year. I know it is short notice but Anthony just flew into town from LA and would like to have a toy drop off before the game Saturday. He and I will be in front of the Honors College from 8-11 if you’d like to come by and drop off an unwrapped toy and chat with Anthony for a bit. All items will be taken to Boys and Girls Clubs in underserved parts of Orlando so those kiddos can enjoy the Holiday Spirit. If stopping by the tailgate is out of your way and you’d like to donate to the cause here are the links to some ways to send money to a good cause. We are also working with UCF to possibly do a toy drop before the Ole Miss basketball game soon. Thanks for taking a minute to read.
One Kid Orlando Foundation
Our Mission is to meet the needs of kids in the Greater Orlando Community. Through One Kid Orlando Outreach, Our Goal is to Give Empowerment, Encouragement, Inspiration and Information to as many kids and their families as possible.We Plan to Impact Orlando, One Kid at a Time.
onekidorlando.com
TL/DR - Want to help a good cause? Click on a link above and donate.
Brain Teaser: There Are Only Six Impossible Scores in College Football
- By KAWknight
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- 4 Replies
Sitting here watching this boring Mississippi Landsharks at Mississippi State Bulldogs game (current score 3-0), my son asked me if a college football game had ever ended with a final score of 2-0. While attempting to Google the answer (with regard to which I was unsuccessful), I came across this article which I found it to be pretty interesting:
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Brain Teaser: There Are Only Six Impossible Scores in College Football
Jon Coble
Sep 26, 2019
There are some unusual ways to score in college football. One of the options has never happened before.
Since a tie should be impossible due to the overtime rules, I have excluded all ties from this calculation. This calculation depends on the game not being ‘called’ before completion, e.g., game called off in the third quarter due to bad weather. This calculation also does not include scores that are impossible due to the limits of human capability. For example, a score of 1,000,000,000,000 to 0 wouldn’t be considered because human life spans would make such a score impossible. Infinity to zero is also excluded due to it being a mathematical impossibility.
Considering these exclusions, here are the six scores that are impossible in college football.
Table of impossible football scores.
There are no other impossible scores in college football. I know what you must be thinking. How can there be a score of 1? Just because it has never occurred does not mean it is impossible.
The most common way to score in college football is the touchdown. Touchdowns give a team 6 points. The second most common way to score in college football is the point after attempt (PAT). The PAT will give a team 1 point. The PAT is only allowed on the play immediately after a touchdown. The other option on the play immediately following a touchdown is the two-point conversion. It will give a team 2 points. A successful field goal kick gives a team 3 points. The other way to score is safety.
The safety is where things start to get unusual. Generally, safety gives a team 2 points. Whereas the other methods of scoring can only occur one way, a conventional-safety can be scored by any of three different ways. The ball carrier is tackled or forced out of bounds in his own end zone. The ball becomes dead in the end zone, with the exception of an incomplete forward pass, and the defending team is responsible for it being there. The offense commits a penalty in its own end zone, e.g., intentional grounding.
The conversion-safety is another type of safety. If a team is attempting a PAT and the kick is blocked and returned into the offense’s own end zone, it is a conversion-safety. The defense gets 2 points. There is another type of conversion safety known as the one-point safety. A one-point safety is divided into two types: offensive and defensive. The offensive one-point safety is only known to have happened a few times in college football history. There is no known instance of a defensive one-point safety having ever occurred. What is interesting here, is that there is no known instance of the offensive one-point safety having occurred before 2004. I suspect that the internet is the reason for this. With the ease of looking through any type of information, fans discovered this obscure rule. Consequently, the issue was raised for the first time in a football game in 2004.
One way of scoring the offensive one-point safety is for the defense to block the offense’s PAT and recover the ball, only to fumble the ball and recover the ball in its own end zone. See the video below for an example of this in a Texas v. Texas A&M game. Even the announcers from ABC Sports did not know about the one-point safety and thought the referees had made a mistake.
Login to view embedded media This is a video from YouTube of an offensive one-point safety.
The defensive one-point safety is the most interesting of all. It has never occurred before. Theoretically, this could occur with a blocked PAT. A defensive player could pick up the ball and run toward the opposing end zone for a two-point safety. A few yards before reaching the end zone, the defensive player fumbles the ball. One of the pursuing offensive players scoops up the ball, but due to momentum, is carried into the end zone and is tackled while in the end zone. That would be a defensive one-point safety. This is why it is possible for a team to have a score of only 1 point.
It is impossible to have a score of 1 to 0 because a one-point safety can only be scored on a PAT. The same can be said for 2 to 1 and 3 to 1 since there is no PAT after a conventional safety or a field goal respectively. 4 to 1 is impossible because 4 points can only occur after two conventional safeties have occurred. 5 to 1 is impossible because it can only occur after a field goal and a conventional safety. 6 to 1 is possible since an offensive team can score a touchdown and then the defense can score a 1-point safety. 7 to 1 is impossible because a team can only get to 7 after scoring a touchdown by successfully kicking a PAT. The defensive 1-point safety can only occur after an unsuccessful PAT or unsuccessful two-point conversion.
If anyone else has any impossible score, please put it in the comments. I can’t think of another one. I will keep my eye out for the elusive defensive one-point safety this year.
ARTICLE: Brain Teaser: There Are Only Six Impossible Scores in College Football
EDIT: Saw this in the comments. Not sure if it’s accurate:
“The only impossible score in NCAA football is 7-1 because of the new rules regarding 5th (and subsequent) overtime, teams can now score one point without a preceding touchdown.”
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Brain Teaser: There Are Only Six Impossible Scores in College Football
Jon Coble
Sep 26, 2019
There are some unusual ways to score in college football. One of the options has never happened before.
Since a tie should be impossible due to the overtime rules, I have excluded all ties from this calculation. This calculation depends on the game not being ‘called’ before completion, e.g., game called off in the third quarter due to bad weather. This calculation also does not include scores that are impossible due to the limits of human capability. For example, a score of 1,000,000,000,000 to 0 wouldn’t be considered because human life spans would make such a score impossible. Infinity to zero is also excluded due to it being a mathematical impossibility.
Considering these exclusions, here are the six scores that are impossible in college football.
Table of impossible football scores.
There are no other impossible scores in college football. I know what you must be thinking. How can there be a score of 1? Just because it has never occurred does not mean it is impossible.
The most common way to score in college football is the touchdown. Touchdowns give a team 6 points. The second most common way to score in college football is the point after attempt (PAT). The PAT will give a team 1 point. The PAT is only allowed on the play immediately after a touchdown. The other option on the play immediately following a touchdown is the two-point conversion. It will give a team 2 points. A successful field goal kick gives a team 3 points. The other way to score is safety.
The safety is where things start to get unusual. Generally, safety gives a team 2 points. Whereas the other methods of scoring can only occur one way, a conventional-safety can be scored by any of three different ways. The ball carrier is tackled or forced out of bounds in his own end zone. The ball becomes dead in the end zone, with the exception of an incomplete forward pass, and the defending team is responsible for it being there. The offense commits a penalty in its own end zone, e.g., intentional grounding.
The conversion-safety is another type of safety. If a team is attempting a PAT and the kick is blocked and returned into the offense’s own end zone, it is a conversion-safety. The defense gets 2 points. There is another type of conversion safety known as the one-point safety. A one-point safety is divided into two types: offensive and defensive. The offensive one-point safety is only known to have happened a few times in college football history. There is no known instance of a defensive one-point safety having ever occurred. What is interesting here, is that there is no known instance of the offensive one-point safety having occurred before 2004. I suspect that the internet is the reason for this. With the ease of looking through any type of information, fans discovered this obscure rule. Consequently, the issue was raised for the first time in a football game in 2004.
One way of scoring the offensive one-point safety is for the defense to block the offense’s PAT and recover the ball, only to fumble the ball and recover the ball in its own end zone. See the video below for an example of this in a Texas v. Texas A&M game. Even the announcers from ABC Sports did not know about the one-point safety and thought the referees had made a mistake.
Login to view embedded media This is a video from YouTube of an offensive one-point safety.
The defensive one-point safety is the most interesting of all. It has never occurred before. Theoretically, this could occur with a blocked PAT. A defensive player could pick up the ball and run toward the opposing end zone for a two-point safety. A few yards before reaching the end zone, the defensive player fumbles the ball. One of the pursuing offensive players scoops up the ball, but due to momentum, is carried into the end zone and is tackled while in the end zone. That would be a defensive one-point safety. This is why it is possible for a team to have a score of only 1 point.
It is impossible to have a score of 1 to 0 because a one-point safety can only be scored on a PAT. The same can be said for 2 to 1 and 3 to 1 since there is no PAT after a conventional safety or a field goal respectively. 4 to 1 is impossible because 4 points can only occur after two conventional safeties have occurred. 5 to 1 is impossible because it can only occur after a field goal and a conventional safety. 6 to 1 is possible since an offensive team can score a touchdown and then the defense can score a 1-point safety. 7 to 1 is impossible because a team can only get to 7 after scoring a touchdown by successfully kicking a PAT. The defensive 1-point safety can only occur after an unsuccessful PAT or unsuccessful two-point conversion.
If anyone else has any impossible score, please put it in the comments. I can’t think of another one. I will keep my eye out for the elusive defensive one-point safety this year.
ARTICLE: Brain Teaser: There Are Only Six Impossible Scores in College Football
EDIT: Saw this in the comments. Not sure if it’s accurate:
“The only impossible score in NCAA football is 7-1 because of the new rules regarding 5th (and subsequent) overtime, teams can now score one point without a preceding touchdown.”