1* Take Central Florida (#151)

UCF went 0-12 last year.  10 in their losses came by two touchdowns or more, as they need to have – George O’Leary’s final season was a whole disaster.   That included a late November 44-7 home loss by the hands of East Carolina.  That was then, that is now.  

New UCF Coach Scott Frost has made it very clear what he desires to install for the Golden Knights.  The previous Oregon Ducks offensive coordinator wants Central Florida to become “The Oregon of the East”.  Frost found his starting QB two weeks ago when previous starter Justin Holman got hurt.  In two games behind center, frosh McKenzie Milton; a dual threat dynamo against both Maryland and FIU.

 Here’s Frost’s quote:

“One of the things that drew me to the job is I knew I'LL run a version of our offense that was practically similar to Oregon's because we will recruit that form of player here. I DO NOT BELIEVE it is advisable to run Oregon's offense at Wisconsin; I DO NOT know when you would get enough guys that may run well enough to do it. In Orlando, Florida, there's fast guys in high schools in every direction in close proximity which can be already running systems in highschool which might be very similar to this and will need to play in it.”

When a formerly dismal team starts to play competitive football, then starts to win, it becomes contagious – these are ‘bet-on’ teams week after week, until the markets show that they’ve caught up.  Seeing that UCF has covered the spread (in regulation) by double digit margins in all of the last two weeks, I’m not convinced within the slightest that the markets have caught up with their improvement.

East Carolina has faced two solid offensive teams; NC State and Virginia Tech.  The Wolfpack gained greater than 200 yards at the ground AND THRU the air against East Carolina, and will have scored way over the 30 points that they did.  Last week, Virginia Tech hung 54 in this stop unit, another balanced attack, and the defense didn’t create a turnover.  Expect East Carolina to have a tricky time getting stops here; bad news for any favorite.

The Pirates are coming off back-2-back physical, demoralizing losses, and they’ve yet to overcome a FBS team by greater than a field goal this year.  A program in transition following the shocking firing of Ruffin McNeill last December has no business laying greater than a field goal to a ‘bet-on’ UCF squad on Saturday.  Take Central Florida.

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