Feels amazing to have our coach back!!! So much excitement for the season in comparison to the dread that came with having Gus as coach. Knowing that he told McKenzie that his goal was to get back to UCF before it happened is awesome. He's where he's supposed to be and I think he'll be here for a long time!!This time at UCF, Scott Frost won't need to catch lightning in a bottle
This time at UCF, Scott Frost won't need to catch lightning in a bottle
The coach led the Knights to an undefeated season eight years ago. Can he do it again in 2025?www.espn.com
She's from Orlando and mentors with the Orange County Public Schools. A while back, she was the college football writer for The Sentinel, has received many awards including the 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting and was the 2024 Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) President. Outstanding person and professional journalist.
I recall her being at the Sentinel but didn’t know about the rest. Very interesting, thanks.
I was surprised to see the article was brand new. For 99% of the fandom, Frost is yesterday's news in Huskerland. When somebody (like the author of the linked article) brings him up, it's usually met with "For crying out loud, give it a rest--the Frost era is long gone now."Husker Tears....
Scott Frost plays Nebraska's victim again while pretending to take the high road
Scott Frost gave another interview where he couldn’t help circling back to Nebraska—and blaming others.
Shortly after Frost's hiring by Nebraska, he did an interview in which he said he wished his UCF ring just said "Champions" rather than "National Champions." I get that he would've preferred to have won the national championship by participating in the four-team playoff, but the fact is, we went undefeated and we have the right to at least call ourselves co-national champions for reasons that have been discussed ad nauseam. I'd like Frost to get on board with that and start saying that he won a national title while at UCF. Is Frost afraid he'll look bad if he says that? If so, why is he giving a damn what anyone else thinks? It's the truth!
The Knights got a lot of mileage out of that at the time. Especially with the whole DisneyWorld thing. But those AAC days are over and we're in the P4 now in one of the true Big Dawg conferences.
Look man…UCF had a great season in 2017 but anyone claiming a national championship is a “simple” who doesn’t know a thing about college football. The 2017 UCF team had a total of ONE 1st round draft pick…not on the following draft but on the entire roster. O N E.
The AAC in 2017 with UCF, Houston, and Cincy was alot tougher than the current. People also discredit the fact that 2017 UCF destroyed Maryland on the road a week after Maryland went into Austin and beat a ranked Texas.
Very true! Especially now with the best players going to the most money. $$$ Championships will be like baseball a bit.
Yes there is. Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State, Colorado State, Gonzaga (Basketball only)
When Oregon State and Washington State are your Standard Bearers, it's not your father's Pac 12.
Oh basketball only. I read they have to add 1 more football to be considered a true conference.
If USF goes undefeated in AAC this year and wins the AAC championship game, they won't be in any bowl game. They will be playing for National title in playoffs.
Under your scenario you omit very important criteria. If usf was undefeated, and beat the team (Auburn) that beat both Alabama and Georgia who played in the national championship invitational game, and was ranked #1 by Colley matrix, and was recorded in the official NCAA records as co-champions, then the answer to your revised question is a yes. Of course that will never happen because well…..……they’re usf, and we now have a different format with the playoffs.
When I used USF as a hypothetical, I was assuming they would've played a schedule similar to what the Knights did back in 2017. But if the Bulls went undefeated this year with a schedule that included big road wins at Florida and Miami, you're right.
Near impossible? Doesn’t at least one G5 champion have a guaranteed spot in the playoffs?
If they were the only undefeated team in Division 1, I would begrudgingly give it to them. However, going forward I would assume there would be more room for them to be in the playoffs. My gripes with the playoffs are that they should all be at neutral sites and at stadiums that get a lot of air travel (Atlanta, Dallas, other major airline hubs).
I'm torn on this issue. On one hand, I believe a football playoff is light years different from basketball's Big Dance. At the highest levels, a CFB season is a physically demanding grind--and a tournament needs to reward those teams that successfully survived it in tough, 'Big Dawg' conferences. The idea that an undefeated G5 team playing a G5 schedule could survive a multiple-game meat grinder is hard for me to imagine.
I'm so tired of the "Big Dawg" conference talk. People are quick to forget that UCF moved up to a "Big Dawg" conference (Big East) in 2013, then proceeded to win it in our very first year. Then spanked Big 12 champ Baylor in the Fiesta Bowl.
If a selector chose them #1 (how College football National tiles have always been awarded). They can claim it and NCAA will recognize it, so would I.
UCF's last six years in the AAC = 59-17
I don't disagree. I was talking in generalities. I meant no disrespect to that incredible 2017 squad.
Are you denying there's also a big difference between playing in the Big XII versus the AAC?
Not for a "not typical" G5 like UCF was. Gus Malzahn is thee and only reason we've stunk it up in the Big 12 so far. We've already proven how competitive we could be right away in a power conference by winning the Big East our first year in. Penn State, top 10 Louisville, top 10 Baylor, and top 10 South Carolina all felt what I'm saying in 2013.
The jump up in Football wasn’t as drastic as Tik Tok Terry claims, it was just an excuse to cover for Gus. He really was the worst coach to hire for the transition.
You're going to tout UCF in the 'power conference' Big East??!? Oh, you mean Year 1 of the AAC!!! Ooookay.
That eye roll is why you can stick a piece of corn up your Husker ass and stop posing as a UCF fan. You're almost as bad as Lobo. That's why you CONTINUOUSLY go back and forth with him.You're going to tout UCF in the 'power conference' Big East??!? Oh, you mean Year 1 of the AAC!!! Ooookay.
One of the reasons some programs fail in a new conference is because they don't believe they need to change, e.g. successful before so successful now. One of the reasons I initially applauded Malzahn's hire is because he was well-positioned to retool the Knights for the new, long-haul realities they would face in the Big XII. I was wrong.
For whatever the reasons, (most likely the realities of NIL) he sucked and bailed on the program when he realized they weren't going to fire him. Talk about a head coach with zero faith in his program.
