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UCF vs East Carolina Prediction, Game Preview

UCF vs East Carolina game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 8 game on Saturday, October 22

UCF vs East Carolina prediction, game preview, how to watch. Week 8, Saturday, October 22

UCF vs East Carolina How To Watch

Date: Saturday, October 22
Game Time: 7:30 ET
Venue: Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, Greenville, NC
How To Watch: ESPNU
Record: UCF (5-1), East Carolina (4-3)
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UCF vs East Carolina Game Preview

Why East Carolina Will Win

This is the big chance for the Pirates to make some noise.

They’re 4-3 and need two more wins to get bowling, but that’s going to be tough with three of the final four games on the road – at BYU, at Cincinnati, Houston before finishing at Temple.

The offense is the best in the AAC at converting third down tries, the penalties and turnovers are kept to a bare minimum, and they’ve got the passing game to crank up a UCF defense that hasn’t exactly been tight lately against the teams that can throw.

SMU bombing away was expected, but Georgia Tech and Temple threw well, too, and …

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Why UCF Will Win

UCF won all three of those games.

No, the Knight D isn’t air tight, but the offense has been humming with John Rhys Plumlee on a tear.

He hit everything in the 70-13 win over Temple for his fourth 300-yard passing day of the season, he still runs well, and East Carolina is going to have a hard time with all of it.

The Pirate pass defense will give up yards in chunks against the AAC’s best offense, its gong to have a hard time controlling the clock, and …

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What’s Going To Happen

Weird things happen in Dowdy-Ficklen.

This a good, veteran East Carolina team that’s going to keep pressing and bring the pressure on both sides, but the UCF running game will be great, Plumlee will be fine, and the road side will come away with a nice win in a back-and-forth four quarter fight.

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UCF vs East Carolina Prediction, Line

UCF 30, East Carolina 24
Line: UCF -5, o/u: 63.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3
UCF vs East Carolina Must See Rating (out of 5): 3
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UCF vs East Carolina Prediction, Game Preview

UCF vs East Carolina prediction, game preview, how to watch: Saturday, October 9

UCF vs East Carolina prediction, game preview, how to watch: Saturday, October 9

UCF vs East Carolina How To Watch

Date: Saturday, October 9
Game Time: 6:00 ET
Venue: Bounce House, Orlando, FL
How To Watch: ESPN+
Record: UCF (2-2), East Carolina (3-2)
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UCF vs East Carolina Game Preview

Why East Carolina Will Win

UCF has lost its mojo.

It came up with a strong win over Boise State to start the season, but a loss to Louisville hurt in several ways – QB Dillon Gabriel suffered a collarbone injury.

Freshman Mikey Keene couldn’t get the offense moving well enough last week and the Knights suffered a loss to a bad Navy team. Now they have to keep up with an East Carolina attack that’s cranking up the passing yards on a three-game winning streak.

It’s hardly a smooth Pirate O – it’s awful on third downs – and the line allows way too many sacks, but the production is there to keep up with the weakened Knights. Overall, the team is playing far better than UCF coming into this.

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Why UCF Will Win

East Carolina’s defense continues to be a problem.

The offense was able to rip through Marshall and destroyed Tulane, but the defense allowed well over 1,500 yards over the last three games.

The UCF offense might not be the high-powered fun show it’s supposed to be, but it still has the running game to control things against the struggling ECU defensive front.

Being back at home should matter. This is a much different team in the Bounce House, Keene and the offense should be a wee bit sharper after getting a game out of the way with Gabriel out, and the offensive balance should be there to take control of the game.

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What’s Going To Happen

It’ll be a fun game with a whole lot of big plays, but the Pirate offense is too well-oiled and too explosive. There will be a few turnovers to screw things up, but East Carolina’s offense will be sharper.

The problem should be the UCF defense.

It doesn’t generate a lick of a pass rush, and East Carolina doesn’t need the extra time to work. The Pirate O is playing just well enough offensively to set the pace – UCF is usually the one doing that – and will come through on one late scoring drive to pull out the big upset.

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UCF vs East Carolina Prediction, Line

East Carolina 41, UCF 38
Line: UCF -10, o/u: 67
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3.5

Must See Rating: 3.5

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UCF vs East Carolina Prediction, Game Preview

UCF Knights vs East Carolina Pirates prediction and game preview.

UCF Knights vs East Carolina Pirates prediction and game preview.

UCF vs East Carolina Broadcast

Date: Saturday, September 26
Game Time: 12:00 ET
Venue: Dowdy-Ficken Stadium, Greensboro, NC
Network: ESPN+

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Why UCF Will Win

It was ugly, it was sloppy, and it took a big late run to put it away, but UCF played like a team that needed to get a tune-up out of the way when it went to Georgia Tech.

And it won 49-21.

There might be a few depth issues, and the team didn’t play well, and it still got 417 yards and four touchdown passes from QB Dillon Gabriel, and the ground attack added 243 yards and three touchdowns.

The East Carolina defense should be stronger under new DC Blake Harrell, but the secondary is about to get hit really, really hard. The Pirates allowed 414 passing yards in last year’s loss to the Knights, and unless the pass rush shows up, it’s going to get hammered again.

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Why East Carolina Will Win

The offense might be able to keep up.

ECU pushed UCF in a 41-28 loss, with QB Holton Ahlers throwing for 313 yards for an attack that got better and better as the season went on. It might be the team’s first game of the season, but the O will come out firing.

And the team will need some help.

UCF’s offense rolled for 660 yards against Georgia Tech, but it was helped by five turnovers. UCF gave it up twice, committed eight penalties, and it bogged down a bit too much in the third quarter when it could’ve put the game well out of reach.

The Knights have to be bad, and the Pirates have to be great, but …

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What’s Going To Happen

UCF will be fine.

East Carolina will get the offense going in the second half to make the score cosmetically better, but the UCF machine will be fantastic again.

The Knights have to come up with a pass rush that wasn’t there against Georgia Tech, and it will have to be consistent, but it’ll start hot and cruise the rest of the way – even if ECU puts up a ton of yards.

UCF vs East Carolina Prediction, Line

UCF 48, East Carolina 20
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UCF -27.5, o/u: 77
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2

Must See Rating: 2.5

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