4. UCF won 9 games
No, this wasn’t the Florida team everyone thought it would be, but UCF lost its starting quarterback in the early part of the season.
Without Dillon Gabriel, the Knights sputtered, the team was 3-3, and everything could’ve become a whole lot worse considering the hopes for an American Athletic Conference Championship and big season were dead.
But the Knights started winning with tough defense, enough offense to get by, and – okay – it helped that the back half of the slate was loaded with layups.
Whatever. Nine wins are nine wins.
UCF won six of its last seven games, the program finished with nine victories, and the first year under Gus Malzahn turned out to be okay.
Part of the adversity came from the health problems of …