Gus Malzahn: TCU’s national title run is motivation for Big 12-bound UCF | Commentary
Jan 07, 2023 at 6:14 pmNext season, this could be you, UCF.
And that’s why there are no ifs, ands or buts about what I am about to write:
If you are a UCF Knight — a fan, a player or a coach — you are absolutely, positively rooting for the Big 12′s TCU to beat the SEC’s big, bad Georgia Bulldogs in the national championship game on Monday night.
The fact of the matter is, there’s not much difference at all — just one letter, in fact — between TCU and UCF.
UCF coach Gus Malzahn has experience as a first-year coach leading a team into the national-title game. (Matthew Hinton/AP)
“There’s no doubt we’re going into a great conference,” says UCF coach Gus Malzahn, whose team, along with Cincinnati, Houston and BYU, will join the Big 12 next season. “The way TCU is playing is very impressive, and that’s great for everything [UCF is trying to accomplish].
“The landscape of college football has really changed over the last two years and it’s going to change even more next season with everything that’s going on,” Malzahn adds. “The old traditional three or four teams that make it [to the playoff] every year — those days are in the past. TCU is one of the up-and-coming teams and there’s going to be more and more of those programs in the Big 12. It’s an exciting time for us moving into this league.”
I’m not saying UCF is going to be in the CFP semifinals next season, but would you really be surprised if it happened in today’s whacked-out, wild-wild-west world of college football where anything is possible on a year-to-year basis?
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Next season, this could be you, UCF. And that’s why there are no ifs, ands or buts about what I am about to write: If you are a UCF Knight — a fan, a player or a coach — you are a…
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