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The 2017 UCF Knights football team represented the University of Central Florida in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Knights played their home games at the newly renamed Spectrum Stadium in Orlando, Florida, and competed in the East Division of the American Athletic Conference. They were led by second year head coach Scott Frost.
The 2017 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game was held on Saturday, December 2, 2017. This was the third year that the AAC Championship game is played. The game was a rematch of the September 30 matchup, [2] which UCF won 40-13. [3]
Initially a Division I-A Independent the Knights first moved into a "Group of Five" conference in 2002, and then into a "Power Five" conference in 2023. [2] In doing so, the Knights became the first NCAA football program to play at all four sanctioned levels. As a Division I–AA program, the Knights made the 1990 and 1993 playoffs. [3]
UCF suffered a historic collapse that put a damper on the program’s first Big 12 home opener as the Knights surrendered 29 straight points in the final 18:02 to lose to Baylor 36-35 Saturday at ...
UCF Knights running back Johnny Richardson (0) runs the ball for a touchdown during the first quarter against the Baylor Bears on Sept. 30, 2023, at FBC Mortgage Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The ...
With their most recent win in the 2021 Gasparilla Bowl, UCF has an overall bowl record of 6–9 (.400). They are 2-1 in BCS bowl games. UCF's first bowl game came during the 2005 season when, under the leadership of second year head coach George O'Leary, the team underwent the fourth-best turnaround in NCAA history in his second year with the ...
The Knights (5-2, 2-1) remain in the AAC hunt despite a four-turnover showing at East Carolina, but they will need to end Cincinnati's unbeaten run. 3 THINGS TO WATCH: UCF football aims to rebound ...
The UCF football program can be traced back to a speech given by the university's second president, Dr. Trevor Colbourn, in January 1979. [18] Colbourn believed that a successful athletics program would bring the university greater renown, and tasked Dr. Jack O'Leary with the job of creating a new football program at the school. [19]