The remaining 5 games in the regular season: unknown!

[UCFProf]

Checked conference comparisons on Sagarin, and the AAC west is almost as good as the SEC east (only a couple point difference) and has crept up on the Big 10 west (only 5 points back).

These past 2 years, AAC created clear daylight from non-P5 conference and cut the gap with P-5 to under 10 pts. Why? Mostly due to depth of AAC. Almost any team can beat any other.

For UCF, that mean we could go 1-4 or 4-1 the rest of the way. All three conference games could easily have gone the other way (ECU coach gave us the game by benching their QB). At least UCF's shown itself to be competitive and never say die.

 

[UCFan07]

While I agree with most of this- this is the 2nd time you said ECU "Gave" us the game. They are 0-3 in the conference and 2-5 overall- so they aren't world beaters and I think we deserve a little credit for "beating" them not them handing us the game.

 

[UCFProf]

While I agree with most of this- this is the 2nd time you said ECU "Gave" us the game. They are 0-3 in the conference and 2-5 overall- so they aren't world beaters and I think we deserve a little credit for "beating" them not them handing us the game.

You're right. Milton wasn't available so it was two pathetic offenses against each other, with our D bailing us out. But the 0-3 label on ECU overlooks their OOC play against good opposition. As I said elsewhere, the conference is as evenly matched as it could possibly be.

 

[UCFan07]

Well 0-3 is their conference record so it should overlook their OOC play? And yea, we started Holman that game, so it really be someone on their boards saying they did us a favor by starting holman.

 

[UCFProf]

Well 0-3 is their conference record so it should overlook their OOC play? And yea, we started Holman that game, so it really be someone on their boards saying they did us a favor by starting holman.

You must have watched a different game than everyone else. The screaming posts were some of the maddest outburst I've read here. The ECU coach was fired right after the game for dereliction of duty. It was a freebee for ECU.

 

[jetsaholic]

Checked conference comparisons on Sagarin, and the AAC west is almost as good as the SEC east (only a couple point difference) and has crept up on the Big 10 west (only 5 points back).

These past 2 years, AAC created clear daylight from non-P5 conference and cut the gap with P-5 to under 10 pts. Why? Mostly due to depth of AAC. Almost any team can beat any other.

For UCF, that mean we could go 1-4 or 4-1 the rest of the way. All three conference games could easily have gone the other way (ECU coach gave us the game by benching their QB). At least UCF's shown itself to be competitive and never say die.

Their QB got a concussion from his RB pushing him into our player. That's quite different from getting benched if you ask me.

 

[G-Knight]

For UCF, that mean we could go 0-5 or 5-0 the rest of the way.

FIFY

 

[UCFan07]

What are you talking about? Screaming posts about what? We won. And they still didn't give us the game- we put up 47 points on them thats not their back up qbs fault

You must have watched a different game than everyone else. The screaming posts were some of the maddest outburst I've read here. The ECU coach was fired right after the game for dereliction of duty. It was a freebee for ECU.

 

[UCFan07]

And Montgomery didn't get fired.

 

[Poolside Knight]

what is going on at ECU?

that late firing last season seems to have put their entire Program in disarray

And ECU didn't 'give' that game to UCF, the defense took it. Most of those turnovers were forced and not just ECU dropping the ball on their own

 

[UCFan07]

Thats what I am saying @Poolside Knight - I don't know why anyone think we were just Gifted this game. And their head coach, Scottie Montgomery, wasn't fired after they lost to us.

 

[jetsaholic]

You must have watched a different game than everyone else. The screaming posts were some of the maddest outburst I've read here. The ECU coach was fired right after the game for dereliction of duty. It was a freebee for ECU.

What game are you talking about? What coach got fired? Are you high?

 

[ucfversusbcs]

The coach that was fired was Ron Turner at FIU...and that was after we beat them.
ECU started off strong knocking off NC State - who we couldnt beat in a bowl game in 2014 - before getting destroyed by Va Tech that led to our biggest win against them on the road since the series started.
Ive said this before but to be a respectable conference, we need to consistently win ooc and especially against the P5. Im happy Cincy and ECU got P5 props early in the year before taking a nose dive in conference play. Id take over a nose dive from day one.

 

[80'sKnight]

Perhaps a little reality about ECU (hint: they're crap!)
W 52 - 7 WCAR
W 33 - 30 NCST
L 20 - 15 at SC
L 54 - 17 at VATECH
L 47 - 29 UCF
L 38 - 22 at SFLA
L 31 - 19 at CINCY

They played 1 game, against what's turning out to be a mediocre NC St., who's signature game this year I guess is a win against a mediocre Notre D. WE BEAT ECU! They gave nothing away, a superior defense took it. And by the way, this is the record most on here (back around Dec./Jan) thought UCF would have during the transition year.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

Perhaps a little reality about ECU (hint: they're crap!)
W 52 - 7 WCAR
W 33 - 30 NCST
L 20 - 15 at SC
L 54 - 17 at VATECH
L 47 - 29 UCF
L 38 - 22 at SFLA
L 31 - 19 at CINCY

They played 1 game, against what's turning out to be a mediocre NC St., who's signature game this year I guess is a win against a mediocre Notre D. WE BEAT ECU! They gave nothing away, a superior defense took it. And by the way, this is the record most on here (back around Dec./Jan) thought UCF would have during the transition year.

Both Cinci and ECU are on the down trend, but at least should get props for making the conference look good with P5 wins.
Any P5 win is good.
Even our 2011 crappy year was better than our other crappy years because we beat a P5 team.

 

[Mikesi]

What game are you talking about? What coach got fired? Are you high?

He's talking about FIU.

 

[Mikesi]

You must have watched a different game than everyone else. The screaming posts were some of the maddest outburst I've read here. The ECU coach was fired right after the game for dereliction of duty. It was a freebee for ECU.

 

[cocoabeachjason]

ECU's coach gifted us the game by benching his qb? A lot wrong with this statement.

 

[KnightLife1]

Checked conference comparisons on Sagarin, and the AAC west is almost as good as the SEC east (only a couple point difference) and has crept up on the Big 10 west (only 5 points back).

These past 2 years, AAC created clear daylight from non-P5 conference and cut the gap with P-5 to under 10 pts. Why? Mostly due to depth of AAC. Almost any team can beat any other.

For UCF, that mean we could go 1-4 or 4-1 the rest of the way. All three conference games could easily have gone the other way (ECU coach gave us the game by benching their QB). At least UCF's shown itself to be competitive and never say die.

While, as much as anyone else, i want us to maximize our wins this year, I think that even more important is for us to polish the new system. Get it into 'muscle memory' for the players who need to continue to internalize it so that they can "hit the ground running" in 2017.

This will create a framework that new recruits can plug into by observing those who now know the system, and then just adding their unique talents. This will be much more efficient and effective than new recruits trying to learn it "from scratch" solely from playbooks and verbal descriptions, like this 1st generation had to do.