UCF Knights College Football Preview 2021: What Will Happen, Season Prediction
All Gus Malzahn did was come up with eight straight winning seasons at Auburn, came within a defensive stop of winning a national title, got to a second SEC Championship, and beat Nick Saban and Alabama three times in fantastic fashion.
He got Auburn to that national championship appearance in his first year on the job, and he won the Sun Belt title at Arkansas State in his one and only season there.
And now he inherits a team that’s good enough to win the American Athletic Conference title and a program that’s used to being considered very, very good.
The world might be gushing over Cincinnati right now in the AAC, but UCF is going to be right there.
Set The UCF Knights Regular Season Win Total At … 9.5
The defense has to tighten up in a big way – it has nine starters returning – and the offense has to keep up the production after finishing second in the nation, but again, UCF got itself a head coach who knows how to win.
A winning season and a bowl appearance are givens now at UCF. However, Boise State at Louisville, at Cincinnati, Memphis, at SMU – there are just enough nasty games to keep this from being that run to the College Football Playoff like Knight fans might like.
On the flip side, those games are just big enough and good enough that if UCF happens to get hot and win them all, it’ll be deep in the discussion for something historic.
Gus has done it before in his first season at a gig. Winning a conference title this time around might be the least surprising of his three.
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