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The 1983 UCF Knights football season was the fifth season for the team. It was Lou Saban's first as the head coach of the Knights. Looking to bounce back from a winless 1982 season, Saban's 1983 team earned a respectable 5–6 overall record. [1] The Knights competed as an NCAA Division II Independent.
The UCF Knights college football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the University of Central Florida in the Big 12 Conference. Since the program's first season in 1979 under Don Jonas, the Knights have played more than 517 games, with over 290 victories.
By 2004, Orlando city officials and UCF's administration expressed dissatisfaction with the state of the aging facility. While UCF was the primary leasing tenant of the Citrus Bowl for 25 years, they received little revenue from football games, and the stadium's capacity (65,000) was considered too large for the Knights.
After long being a football afterthought in Florida, the UCF Knights moving to the Big 12 should elevate them close to equality with UF, FSU and Miami.
UCF began competing in intercollegiate football in 1979. [1] Unlike many college football teams that began play much earlier, all of UCF's full box scores are available, meaning there is no pre-modern era of incomplete statistics. These lists are updated through UCF's game against Boise State on September 2, 2021.
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a metropolitan public research and space-grant university located on a 1,415-acre (5.73 km 2) main campus in Orlando, Florida, United States. [1] UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida and is the largest university in the
The 1990 UCF Knights football team was the twelfth season for the team, and UCF football's first season in Division I-AA (now commonly known as 'FCS'). In their first year in the division, Gene McDowell led the Knights to a 10–4 record, a program best, and a trip to the I-AA playoffs. UCF would make it to the semifinals, and became the first ...
UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida and is the second-largest university in the United States. UCF consists of a 59,770 member student body and employs more than 10,000 people, including over 1,900 teaching faculty and adjuncts. [ 1 ]