From my experience watching college football through the years its always interesting to see how teams handle first games. Usually, and this is not a certainty, but more experienced teams do well with their first game and young teams struggle. To me its all about game planning and experience when you look at first games.
UCF's game plan for FIU was to show nothing to Stanford. When UCF wanted to move the ball through the air it was very easy for them but GOL likes to establish the ground game and was hell bent on doing it which never happened. Take a look around the college football world this weekend and you will see teams like Stanford and Penn State struggle but I hardly think this is what you will see midway through the season with both of these teams.
UCF fans should be concerned with the run blocking but it was the first game and much like USF did with FAMU, FIU did to UCF. That is to say they emptied the playbook while UCF stayed vanilla and it cost them. I don't think you will see the same game plan for Stanford, I believe this was the game that UCF worked on for most of the summer drills not FIU. UCF did not give FIU the proper respect and it cost them and I believe you will see FIU have a pretty good year this year.
Maybe UCF should have played a team like FAMU, Townsend or Murray State like our conference brothers did. The only team in the American that played a tough team and won was Temple, outside of that every other teams wins were against some of the worst in all of college football.
Lets see how this conference shapes up after next week.
USF plays the other team from Tallahassee
Houston plays Louisville
Tulsa plays Oklahoma
UCF plays Stanford
Tulane plays GT
ECU plays Florida
Memphis plays Kansas
SMU plays North Texas
Tulsa plays New Mexico
Cincy plays Temple
Out of all of those OOC games only Tulsa, SMU and Memphis should be favored and those are also the only teams that are playing joke teams OOC.
Outside of UCF, I'm interested to see how Houston looks against Louisville and how usf looks against FSU. usf emptied their playbook, kept starters in the game half way through the fourth quarter and actually ran a TD into the end zone with less than a minute left up by 38. I know for a fact that the players at FSU are friends with many of the FAMU players. I want to see what game plan usf throws out against FSU.
UCF's game plan for FIU was to show nothing to Stanford. When UCF wanted to move the ball through the air it was very easy for them but GOL likes to establish the ground game and was hell bent on doing it which never happened. Take a look around the college football world this weekend and you will see teams like Stanford and Penn State struggle but I hardly think this is what you will see midway through the season with both of these teams.
UCF fans should be concerned with the run blocking but it was the first game and much like USF did with FAMU, FIU did to UCF. That is to say they emptied the playbook while UCF stayed vanilla and it cost them. I don't think you will see the same game plan for Stanford, I believe this was the game that UCF worked on for most of the summer drills not FIU. UCF did not give FIU the proper respect and it cost them and I believe you will see FIU have a pretty good year this year.
Maybe UCF should have played a team like FAMU, Townsend or Murray State like our conference brothers did. The only team in the American that played a tough team and won was Temple, outside of that every other teams wins were against some of the worst in all of college football.
Lets see how this conference shapes up after next week.
USF plays the other team from Tallahassee
Houston plays Louisville
Tulsa plays Oklahoma
UCF plays Stanford
Tulane plays GT
ECU plays Florida
Memphis plays Kansas
SMU plays North Texas
Tulsa plays New Mexico
Cincy plays Temple
Out of all of those OOC games only Tulsa, SMU and Memphis should be favored and those are also the only teams that are playing joke teams OOC.
Outside of UCF, I'm interested to see how Houston looks against Louisville and how usf looks against FSU. usf emptied their playbook, kept starters in the game half way through the fourth quarter and actually ran a TD into the end zone with less than a minute left up by 38. I know for a fact that the players at FSU are friends with many of the FAMU players. I want to see what game plan usf throws out against FSU.
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