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Favorite Wins

Which win was your favorite?

  • 2017 USF (reservation for 6 at the cabanas)

  • 2000 Alabama

  • 2010 Georgia (Liberty Bowl)

  • 2009 #12 Houston

  • 2007 Tulsa (first championship)

  • 2013 #6 Louisville (Charlie Strong’s better team comment game)

  • 2014. #5 Baylor

  • 2018 #7 Auburn

  • 2021 Florida (Gasparilla bowl)

  • 2017 Memphis (AAC title game)


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Tie between #6 Louisville and Baylor. Close because Baylor got us our first major bowl win but that #6 Louisville win changed everything for us, so I'm saying that one for me. Plus, great time at Culpepper's that night and met the man Dante himself.
 
Hard to pick 1. Beating Auburn for perfect season started bringing the brand recognition but feel the win last night cemented UCF past the up and coming stage and his in full view of the nation after the win last night. Really interested to see how the rest of recruiting season goes.
 
Auburn was biggest, but I’m looking for personal favorite. Maybe for petty reasons, or who u were with, or favorite game scenarios. I’ll never forget the way 2017 Game vs USF looked on national TV. The Crowd, the phone lights, the WAY we won, I watched it from my brothers house (a USF alum.). Special day. I rewatch on YouTube occasionally.
 
Auburn was biggest, but I’m looking for personal favorite. Maybe for petty reasons, or who u were with, or favorite game scenarios. I’ll never forget the way 2017 Game vs USF looked on national TV. The Crowd, the phone lights, the WAY we won, I watched it from my brothers house (a USF alum.). Special day. I rewatch on YouTube occasionally.
My favorite as well….against our rival.
 
That 2013 season was magical because we were not on the map yet. We were truly the lovable underdog that came out of nowhere. That Penn State win was the favorite at the time, then the Louisville win, and then the Baylor Fiesta Bowl when we were double digit underdogs. I'm a bit biased about the Baylor game though, because it was one of the best times of my life... traveled cross country with a friend, met another friend in New Mexico, traveled to Arizona for the game, visited the Grand Canyon for the first time, etc.
 
That 2013 season was magical because we were not on the map yet. We were truly the lovable underdog that came out of nowhere. That Penn State win was the favorite at the time, then the Louisville win, and then the Baylor Fiesta Bowl when we were double digit underdogs. I'm a bit biased about the Baylor game though, because it was one of the best times of my life... traveled cross country with a friend, met another friend in New Mexico, traveled to Arizona for the game, visited the Grand Canyon for the first time, etc.
Sounds like my group too! We had a nice road trip out of it and a bowl win to boot.

auburn was a pretty sweet win too given all of the drama with frost leaving and feeling like we had been torpedoed out of a perfect season.
 
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All are great wins. But I believe I have to go with the 2000 win @ Alabama. I had just graduated from UCF in May after spending 4 years in the Marching Knights; and that trip to Tuscaloosa marked the first of an annual father-son tradition of going to one away game (plus some bowl games) together every year. Thursday’s win against the gators was also pretty freaking awesome since their fan base consists of some of the most uneducated, arrogant, and classless fans in all of college football. And a win against them by our Knights gave them a gigantic slice of humble pie to gag on!
 
USF was a great game, but I felt like the Georgia win was a turning point for us. We went from another CUSA contender to the team that scared the SEC out of the Liberty Bowl.

And it didn't feel like a fluke. We showed that we could defend an SEC team better than most of the SEC.

That was the point when I started to believe we could actually make good on our potential, that the gap was not nearly as big as we had been told.
 
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On your list it's a tie between Louisville, USF 17 and Auburn. All of those huge ,great and I shared with my son when we went to those games . I have a sentimental one from the way back machine. I was a student at the Troy UCF game where we got penalized for being too noisy in the Citrus Bowl with over 32,000 fans.

Sometimes you can see something greater and bigger than everyone on the outside . We were Division II and nobody in Division II had our fan base . I am no prognosticator and I could not envision going 0-12 and then going undefeated two seasons later. However, you could tell then we were destined to be where we are heading to the Big XII. Beating Louisville in 13 was amazing to see in person. Beating USF like we did was again amazing. Winning the Peach bowl put college football on notice .

Two days ago said to UF, FSU abd Miami there is a new sheriff in town.
 
Personally, mine is 2009 game vs Marshall. Rain pouring down, huddled under a makeshift canopy with my best friends just hoping to somehow get the W and keep conference championship hopes alive. But hadn’t done shit all game until the 4th quarter. And of course, Brruuuuccceee
 
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How any UCFan could choose anything other than our National Championship win is beyond me.

Maybe personal enjoyment or UCFondest memory or something is what OP was trying to go for. But still suscious why OP didn't put National Championship win in the Poll.

#UCFacts
 
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Not to change the mood, but I think we all know the what the answer would be for USF, They need to go back to the year 2007 win 64 - 12. My favorite recent quote on this board Paraphrasing "pretty soon the kids they will be recruiting were not even born when this game happened"
 
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Personally, mine is 2009 game vs Marshall. Rain pouring down, huddled under a makeshift canopy with my best friends just hoping to somehow get the W and keep conference championship hopes alive. But hadn’t done shit all game until the 4th quarter. And of course, Brruuuuccceee
I flew in from san diego with my girlfriend who I had met 2 months earlier for that game. UCF was unknown on the west coast. She sat with me in our 2 ponchos and we had our wallet/phones/keys wrapped in a seprate poncho.

needless to say i married that girl. I kinda had to after that kind of commitment
 
1) Peach
2) 2017 USF
3) 2013 Fiesta
4) 2010 Liberty
5) 2000 Bama
6) 2018 gameday vs Cincy
7) 2021 vs UF
8) 2013 Louisville
9) 2018 Pitt
10) 2019 Stanford
 
1999 when we beat Georgia in Athens, because we were able to attend. Wait, what, bogus pass interference gives Georgia the win? Crap!
But seriously it was the most memorable game for me.
 
How any UCFan could choose anything other than our National Championship win is beyond me.

Maybe personal enjoyment or UCFondest memory or something is what OP was trying to go for. But still suscious why OP didn't put National Championship win in the Poll.

#UCFacts
Didn't the op put the national champ Game with Auburn in 2018 in his/her poll? I voted for it .
 
Didn't the op put the national champ Game with Auburn in 2018 in his/her poll? I voted for it .

I meant in ( ). Small thing.

I have also found that people who quote BS rankings tend to believe the UCFalse ESP5N narratives. So seeing that makes me suscious.

#UCFacts
 
I meant in ( ). Small thing.

I have also found that people who quote BS rankings tend to believe the UCFalse ESP5N narratives. So seeing that makes me suscious.

#UCFacts
Rankings made some of those games seem more significant (Houston and Louisville for example).
 
None of the above--no offense. It was the 1985 win over Betune Cookman. Eddie O'Brien hit a 55 yd. FG on the last play in the Citrus Bowl. It was my first UCF game and I went with my future wife who has since retired from UCF admin. We were season ticket holders until 2006 when we moved out of state.
 
USF was a great game, but I felt like the Georgia win was a turning point for us. We went from another CUSA contender to the team that scared the SEC out of the Liberty Bowl.

And it didn't feel like a fluke. We showed that we could defend an SEC team better than most of the SEC.

That was the point when I started to believe we could actually make good on our potential, that the gap was not nearly as big as we had been told.
I literally cried on Beale Street with happiness after that win!
 
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I know it was a loss, but the 2005 CUSA championship vs Tulsa was very memorable for me…

I remember walking up to the ticket booth at the old arena. And somehow they gave me front row at the 50 yard line! I was already a graduate so I had to drive back on campus for those tickets- I don’t know why I thought getting them at there was a better option but it sure did work.

Then on Gameday I parked downtown and somehow the whole downtown was buzzing with UCF fans… the shuttle buses were packed!

Walking past the tailgates, I probably got 4 free beers from random UCF fans who were just happy to be there.

And finally when we walked in, the upper decks even had fans. 52,000 in attendance and all were basically UCF.

That’s when I knew something special was building…
 
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I know it was a loss, but the 2005 CUSA championship vs Tulsa was very memorable for me…

I remember walking up to the ticket booth at the old arena. And somehow they gave me front row at the 50 yard line! I was already a graduate so I had to drive back on campus for those tickets- I don’t know why I thought getting them at there was a better option but it sure did work.

Then on Gameday I parked downtown and somehow the whole downtown was buzzing with UCF fans… the shuttle buses were packed!

Walking past the tailgates, I probably got 4 free beers from random UCF fans who were just happy to be there.

And finally when we walked in, the upper decks even had fans. 52,000 in attendance and all were basically UCF.

That’s when I knew something special was building…
CUSA was pretty bad. We lost 5 games that year and were top 3 in conference.
 
I just remember the guys on the sideline holding up a sign that said 90% of America was wrong when we beat Baylor. That was our coming out moment. Beating a top 5 team with all their studs in the game. Nobody mentioned that Baylor wasn't interested in the game. Must be an SEC thing.
 
Being at 2000 Bama game was amazing. We partied in their stadium for what seemed like an hour. Getting that monkey off our back. So many close calls. Yeah they sucked, but they were ranked 3rd in pre-season poll. Plus we can always say 1-0 vs Bama. I took a piece of the hedge with me. And yes I was at Fiesta bowl and Peach bowl victories. Bama was better.
 
Being at 2000 Bama game was amazing. We partied in their stadium for what seemed like an hour. Getting that monkey off our back. So many close calls. Yeah they sucked, but they were ranked 3rd in pre-season poll. Plus we can always say 1-0 vs Bama. I took a piece of the hedge with me. And yes I was at Fiesta bowl and Peach bowl victories. Bama was better.
Javier Beorlegui for the win 1-0 against Bama
 
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