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(04-01-2019 10:05 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(04-01-2019 09:53 AM)C1ncy4Life Wrote:  

(04-01-2019 09:29 AM)Bearcat2012 Wrote:  

(04-01-2019 07:23 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  Agreed. It was the perfect storm last year with their place sold out and juiced for Game Day on ABC. UC certainly didn't play its best game but I thought UCF got its fair share of home cooking from the officials too.

Will UCF's starting QB return this year? His backup was plenty good but Milton's quick release made him elite--a nightmare for most any defense.

Let's hope UC has already started planning on how to fill the house that night. A national TV audience (including P5 conference fans) won't care that there are important high school football games in our city that evening. They'll just note the empty seats in Nippert and opine that it's little different from a MAC game.

A return to college football in 2019 remains unlikely. The goal for Milton’s return is 2020

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-fo...-football/

It’s easy to forget how serious that injury was. Without Milton, and playing in Cincinnati it gives us a real shot at winning the conference though I I’m honest I’d rather win with him in the lineup.

I hope they do announce a dedicated Bowl for the AAC Champ. A New Year 6 bid would be great of course, but we should also have a dedicated Bowl for the AAC champ.

Can’t wait to see how we do this year and moving forward. Should be a great year as Fickell continues to build the foundation of the program.

Agreed. While the AAC appears worthy of the New Year's bowl every season among the G5 there is too much risk, as the conference gets more competitive, of being edged out by an undefeated MWC--or even MAC team. So a dedicated bowl for the conference champ (or runner up when the NY6 bowl is awarded to our champ) is much needed. If UC lost once in conference, and in the conference championship and dropped a game @ Ohio State this season, that three loss UC team could be more deserving of a high profile bowl against a P5 school than any other G5 conference champ. After a season that great, it would be a downer to go play a C-USA team.

Exactly! To much risk to be shut out of a New Years Six Bowl for this conference, even if we do win the conference. Would also give us a second big bowl if the AAC champ gets the New Years Six invite from G5 schools.

They are supposed to announce one apparently so it will be interesting to get details on it and hopefully it’s sooner rather than later. I know we all want to get into a P5 conference, but until then I do like what they have done with trying to grow the AAC. They have done the best they can with what they have (taking Aresco’s word about a bowl and MBB challenge with another conference).