- Just like last year this year is no different. We need to keep our momentum from the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl win going. In order to accomplish that we have to win at least one of our two games this year versus our "power five" opponents. I'm talking about a win against either Stanford or South Carolina. One of these games in my opinion is a must win for us to keep the credibility that we earned from beating the Big 12 champion Baylor Bears about a year and a half ago in Glendale Arizona.
- I contemplated this next one for a while only because I feel that this one really goes without saying but here it is anyway: BEAT THE BULLS! Actually the details for this wish would be to see us return the favor from 2007 and really put some deep hurting on them by lighting up the scoreboard like a pinball machine.
- Three-peat! Host and win the AAC football championship game. Another one that kind of goes without saying.
- Put UCONN back in their place after our bad performance last against them.
- Another bowl game trophy is kind of important and would definitely help our brand out tremendously, especially winning against a "power five conference" team.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
2015 Football Wish List
Last night during a period of deep sleep the college football gods came to me in a dream and asked me what my wishes were for the upcoming 2015 football season. I have been giving it a small amount of thought and hadn't really put much effort in to what I would like to see most in this upcoming season. Not wanting to anger the college football gods with my indecisiveness, I ventured into the schedule and came up with my wishes for UCF Football 2015. OK I know that when I have conversations with other Knights fans on a wish list for the upcoming season, the comment "You mean besides winning the conference and beating the cows?" always comes up because these items kind of go without saying. However, even though these are always on my annual wish list (actually they are on my perennial list because there are other sports than football) but we are talking about football right now so they will be added because they are wishes.
So there you have it, my wish list for 2015.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Not the finish I was hoping for - Bowl and Season review.
The bowl game was a bit of a letdown considering the wave of emotion we were riding after the game winning touchdown against ECU. I really believed that our defense was up for the challenge against a very good NC State team. We battled back late in the game like we always do but unfortunately we gave up too many points earlier that made it difficult to overcome. Close game at the end but we just came up short. I think it was the same attack that UConn used in their upset win (and our only conference loss in two seasons) over us midway through the season. We seem to have trouble containing mobile quarterbacks and it was all too evident as the NC State signal caller was able to gain plenty of yardage. Hopefully we can fix this before the start of next season. It was good to see at the end of the game that the team never gave up and kept battling to the end. Player of the game was Josh Reese with his three touchdowns and some crucial late 3rd down conversions. That shows that the team has confidence that they are always in the game as long as there is time left on the clock.
It is true that this team exceeded expectations and did so by winning another conference championship (yeah I know we had to share it with two other teams). I believe that most people figured that we would have a down year after losing Blake Bortles to the NFL. Justin had some rough times in some of his early games but more than proved he belongs in the starting role with a great performance against BYU. That performance against BYU showed what Justin was capable of because BYU had pretty much shut down our run game and our offense had become one dimensional. We were still able to move the ball despite BYU knowing that we were relying on the passing game heavily. I think that even though the offense was inconsistent at times, the defense kept us in most of the games with a few exceptions. The special teams play was good but not great. Hats off to Shawn Moffit for becoming the leading scorer in UCF football history.
When it is all said and done, winning the Conference championship is the ultimate goal for each of our teams regardless of the sport. Anything beyond that is icing on the cake. Oh yeah, beating the west central florida cows on their own turf was definitely one of the seasons highlights. Here's to a third win against the cows and a three-peat conference championship next season!
Go Knights! #ChargeOn
It is true that this team exceeded expectations and did so by winning another conference championship (yeah I know we had to share it with two other teams). I believe that most people figured that we would have a down year after losing Blake Bortles to the NFL. Justin had some rough times in some of his early games but more than proved he belongs in the starting role with a great performance against BYU. That performance against BYU showed what Justin was capable of because BYU had pretty much shut down our run game and our offense had become one dimensional. We were still able to move the ball despite BYU knowing that we were relying on the passing game heavily. I think that even though the offense was inconsistent at times, the defense kept us in most of the games with a few exceptions. The special teams play was good but not great. Hats off to Shawn Moffit for becoming the leading scorer in UCF football history.
When it is all said and done, winning the Conference championship is the ultimate goal for each of our teams regardless of the sport. Anything beyond that is icing on the cake. Oh yeah, beating the west central florida cows on their own turf was definitely one of the seasons highlights. Here's to a third win against the cows and a three-peat conference championship next season!
Go Knights! #ChargeOn
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