Fiesta Bowl

[Chin Diesel]

UCF finishing strong on first drive.

Hope they keep it up.

 

[noeynox]

Will see if they could slow Baylor up on offense.

 

[History Geek]

So far they have. Baylor 3 and out. Here's to UCF surprising the rest of the country tonight.

 

[ASweet3781]

Now if UCF plays well and even wins will the ESPN brown shirts dismiss it due to Baylor not taking the game seriously?

 

[BlueMAB]

Did ESPN invent AIDS?

Great start by UCF. Hope they keep it up.

 

[UCFBfan]

Whoa UCF! Pulling for them like pulled for WVU every time they represented the BE. Lets go AAC!

 

[sportsart]

Now if UCF plays well and even wins will the ESPN brown shirts dismiss it due to Baylor not taking the game seriously?

I was just coming to post that. Baylor (cough, cough South Carolina) didn't get pumped for the game.

14-0...wow

 

[mcs333]

17 point underdog, UCF off to a great start. Go American!!

 

[ZooCougar]

So glad UCF is turning out strong, so that ESPN can forget their Fiesta Bowl win in Sept and dismiss the whole conference as mid major.

 

[ASweet3781]

So when does the ACC invite UCF?

 

[ZooCougar]

So when does the ACC invite UCF?

In about 20 minutes.

And this is also why is could care less about how the AAC does. When the Big East did well, it didn't do the conference or UConn any good.

 

[Colt house75]

So when does the ACC invite UCF?

Thinking more like the Big 12.....would expect FSU and Miami to pull a BC veto on them.

 

[UCFBfan]

You know I was all about rooting against teams in our conference because it puts them ahead of us in CR but honestly, f it. We haven't proven why we "deserve" to be saved due to our performance in this conference in football or in bball, after yesterday's showing. So since we're here for awhile, I have no problem cheering for our conference mates. Everyone here can look down at them as much as they want but when you wake up tomorrow, UConn will still be in the same conference as them and we could use all the help we can get in making our conference stronger.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

In about 20 minutes.

And this is also why is could care less about how the AAC does. When the Big East did well, it didn't do the conference or UConn any good.

Agreed. Uconn did everything it needed to and got screwed anyway.

 

[Chin Diesel]

UCF just has to hold on for 49 more minutes.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

You know I was all about rooting against teams in our conference because it puts them ahead of us in CR but honestly, f it. We haven't proven why we "deserve" to be saved due to our performance in this conference in football or in bball, after yesterday's showing. So since we're here for awhile, I have no problem cheering for our conference mates. Everyone here can look down at them as much as they want but when you wake up tomorrow, UConn will still be in the same conference as them and we could use all the help we can get in making our conference stronger.

Anybody that doesn't think this crap conference & CR crap isn't gonna catch up to basketball and, more importantly recruiting, is kidding themself. How much of an impact is this years freshman class making? Not like the days of Rip Hamilton, Ray Allen, Omeka Okafor, Ben Gordon, Kalid El Amin and others.

 

[ZooCougar]

Agreed. Uconn did everything it needed to and got screwed anyway.

Double agreed. The whole cooperate to graduate principle doesn't apply.

 

[UCFBfan]

Anybody that doesn't think this crap conference & CR crap isn't gonna catch up to basketball and, more importantly recruiting, is kidding themself. How much of an impact is this years freshman class making? Not like the days of Rip Hamilton, Ray Allen, Omeka Okafor, Ben Gordon, Kalid El Amin and others.

I agree 100% but in order to try and maintain that level in this conference UConn needs to dominate it like Memphis dominated C-USA. They never have a problem recruiting and they haven't won a dang thing. I'm not saying we should be happy being in the AAC, just saying I see no reason to feel like we have a right to look down our noses at other schools in our conference.

 

[ZooCougar]

You know I was all about rooting against teams in our conference because it puts them ahead of us in CR but honestly, f it. We haven't proven why we "deserve" to be saved due to our performance in this conference in football or in bball, after yesterday's showing. So since we're here for awhile, I have no problem cheering for our conference mates. Everyone here can look down at them as much as they want but when you wake up tomorrow, UConn will still be in the same conference as them and we could use all the help we can get in making our conference stronger.

Rutgers and Maryland demonstrate how "deserve" has nothing to do with it.

 

[ASweet3781]

I agree 100% but in order to try and maintain that level in this conference UConn needs to dominate it like Memphis dominated C-USA. They never have a problem recruiting and they haven't won a dang thing. I'm not saying we should be happy being in the AAC, just saying I see no reason to feel like we have a right to look down our noses at other schools in our conference.

They won't be dominating much of anything in men's basketball if a win against an 8-5 Houston team without 3 players isn't a guarantee.

 

[ZooCougar]

I agree 100% but in order to try and maintain that level in this conference UConn needs to dominate it like Memphis dominated C-USA. They never have a problem recruiting and they haven't won a dang thing. I'm not saying we should be happy being in the AAC, just saying I see no reason to feel like we have a right to look down our noses at other schools in our conference.

How we root has no bearing on the outcome. And the outcome has very little good impact on us. I really only care about UConn.

 

[sportsart]

If UCF, Cincy and others beat good teams out of conference, when we beat them we will look that much better. I'll always root for AAC teams OOC and when in conference I'll root for the top teams not to have a WTF game in conference.

We only need to look better than the non P5. If we can create a better perception than them we might get a boost in rankings at the end of the year, hence getting a major bowl bid.

 

[UCFBfan]

How we root has no bearing on the outcome. And the outcome has very little good impact on us. I really only care about UConn.

That's fine but for someone who only cares about UConn you always seem to like to chime in with a whole lot of negativity in threads regarding other AAC schools......

 

[sportsart]

How we root has no bearing on the outcome. And the outcome has very little good impact on us. I really only care about UConn.

If a good football program is part of the reason for a P5 invite (ACC and UL invite proved this) why wouldn't you want the top 3 teams or so to do well? If they suck and we beat them, then we beat sucky schools.

 

[ZooCougar]

That's fine but for someone who only cares about UConn you always seem to like to chime in with a whole lot of negativity in threads regarding other AAC schools......

Are you kidding me. It's way more than that. I start negative threads about the AAC.