Rewatched last year's UCF game.

[bullsfan1983]

Some thoughts

 

Far too many penalties throughout.

Run game was ineffective (83 yards 2.5 ypc)

White played decently but was still sub 50%. There were several deep passes where he badly missed open receivers.

 

We have shown improvement in these areas this year which is cause for optimism.

 

A couple other things

 

Hall burned us over and over on kickoff returns and was single-handedly responsible for 3 points based on 1 kick return into field goal range. Need to have a plan to contain him.

 

UCF gifted us 2 turnovers and we forced 3 others but only managed 10 points off of turnovers.

 

We left 6 points off the board and lost by 3. 4th and 2 within field goal range when we were up 6-3 early on and Taggart decided to go for it. Questionable call there as it wasn't 4th and inches or 4th and goal from the 2. Should have been an easy 3 points and getting the first down there doesn't guarantee a touchdown or even make a touchdown likely with our offense. Of course we failed to convert. Late in the game we had a chance to go up by 7 with a field goal, but the dreaded block below the waist penalty backed us up and made for a much harder 51 yard fg that was missed.

 

Reasons for optimism

 

The addition of Mack as a home run threat.

Davis appears to be back in form.

No Bortles or Storm Johnson and UCF's offense has taken a step back.

Defense should be hyped up and active and hopefully can force turnovers off the turnover prone Holman similar to last year.

White is marginally better with experience.

Team may be playing for Taggart's job. I think this is a much bigger game for us to have a good showing than UCF.

 

 

Is it weird to be feeling confident in a victory Friday?

[George_Bullnard_Shaw]

Team may be playing for Taggart's job. I think this is a much bigger game for us to have a good showing than UCF.

 

 

 

 

That could be a very double edged proposition.

[ambienknights]

Some thoughts

 

Far too many penalties throughout.

Run game was ineffective (83 yards 2.5 ypc)

White played decently but was still sub 50%. There were several deep passes where he badly missed open receivers.

 

We have shown improvement in these areas this year which is cause for optimism.

 

A couple other things

 

Hall burned us over and over on kickoff returns and was single-handedly responsible for 3 points based on 1 kick return into field goal range. Need to have a plan to contain him.

 

UCF gifted us 2 turnovers and we forced 3 others but only managed 10 points off of turnovers.

 

We left 6 points off the board and lost by 3. 4th and 2 within field goal range when we were up 6-3 early on and Taggart decided to go for it. Questionable call there as it wasn't 4th and inches or 4th and goal from the 2. Should have been an easy 3 points and getting the first down there doesn't guarantee a touchdown or even make a touchdown likely with our offense. Of course we failed to convert. Late in the game we had a chance to go up by 7 with a field goal, but the dreaded block below the waist penalty backed us up and made for a much harder 51 yard fg that was missed.

 

Reasons for optimism

 

The addition of Mack as a home run threat.

Davis appears to be back in form.

No Bortles or Storm Johnson and UCF's offense has taken a step back.

Defense should be hyped up and active and hopefully can force turnovers off the turnover prone Holman similar to last year.

White is marginally better with experience.

Team may be playing for Taggart's job. I think this is a much bigger game for us to have a good showing than UCF.

 

 

Is it weird to be feeling confident in a victory Friday?

nice summary. view from the other side

 

-USF players to were pumped(looking at sidelines during tv timeouts)

-UCF did not have an answer to Aaryn Lynch all game, he wreaked havok

-It was the worst Bortles looked all season, he held onto the ball way too long all game and never took the check down options. He still made the big throw when needed

-Storm was benched most of the 2nd half after the 2 fumbles on the first 2 drives that got into the red zone but ended with 0 points

-White was composed most of the game till he telegraphed the INT that won it

 

This season the UCF offensive line is not as good or experienced. Holman is raw and mistake prone but very talented.  He shows much more emotion compared to Bortles. The UCF Defense is better than last season but still prone to giving up big plays. Mobile QBs or wildcat packages have given the UCF D the most problems this season

[Danm1983]

USF defense way worse this year, UCF offense not as good this year. So the recipe is there for this to still be somewhat close due to the emotions and USF trying to get one more win/end the year on a high note/etc etc etc, but I think UCF will manage to get some big plays just because, and unless USF gets some breakout success on offense, the end score will not be as close as the game was probably.

[charsibb]

UCiF will destroy us

[snarling Bull]

UCiF will destroy us

I haven't seen that phrase posted for a while lol

[MaltLiquorBull]

Some thoughts

 

Far too many penalties throughout.

Run game was ineffective (83 yards 2.5 ypc)

White played decently but was still sub 50%. There were several deep passes where he badly missed open receivers.

 

We have shown improvement in these areas this year which is cause for optimism.

 

A couple other things

 

Hall burned us over and over on kickoff returns and was single-handedly responsible for 3 points based on 1 kick return into field goal range. Need to have a plan to contain him.

 

UCF gifted us 2 turnovers and we forced 3 others but only managed 10 points off of turnovers.

 

We left 6 points off the board and lost by 3. 4th and 2 within field goal range when we were up 6-3 early on and Taggart decided to go for it. Questionable call there as it wasn't 4th and inches or 4th and goal from the 2. Should have been an easy 3 points and getting the first down there doesn't guarantee a touchdown or even make a touchdown likely with our offense. Of course we failed to convert. Late in the game we had a chance to go up by 7 with a field goal, but the dreaded block below the waist penalty backed us up and made for a much harder 51 yard fg that was missed.

 

Reasons for optimism

 

The addition of Mack as a home run threat.

Davis appears to be back in form.

No Bortles or Storm Johnson and UCF's offense has taken a step back.

Defense should be hyped up and active and hopefully can force turnovers off the turnover prone Holman similar to last year.

White is marginally better with experience.

Team may be playing for Taggart's job. I think this is a much bigger game for us to have a good showing than UCF.

 

 

Is it weird to be feeling confident in a victory Friday?

 

This is the key.  There have been 1 or 2 games where this D has shown signs that they can be good, but overall, they don't seem as good as last year.  Hopefully the few of us who are there can make some noise for them.  RJS has not been much of a home field advantage for us lately.

[Danm1983]

 

UCiF will destroy us

I haven't seen that phrase posted for a while lol

 

 

because lately it's been USiF lol

 

 

/now i'm sad

Edited November 25, 2014 by Danm1983

[snarling Bull]

UCiF will destroy us

I haven't seen that phrase posted for a while lol

because lately it's been USiF lol

/now i'm sad

Me too

[footnfan1]

The Pride of UCF:

A short video to rev things up.....