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St. Pete Bowl Director Says Not to Rule Out a USF-UCF Matchup
Posted Dec 1, 2009 by Scott Carter
Updated Dec 1, 2009 at 04:53 PM
Brett Dulaney, executive director of the St. Petersburg Bowl, officially invited UCF to the bowl game Tuesday at a press conference on the UCF campus.
What about a UCF-USF matchup? Dulaney isn’t ruling out USF returning to the bowl although both the bowl committee and USF officials are lukewarm to the idea.
Regardless, UCF will face a Big East opponent. The St. Petersburg Bowl has the sixth and final pick of bowl eligible Big East teams. Rutgers and Connecticut are the most likely candidates to play in the bowl, but there is still a possibility rival USF could represent the Big East in the game.
“There’s nothing set in stone as far as USF or any of the other Big East schools,” Dulaney said Tuesday. “We have three more football games. There’s a lot that could still happen. We could have USF, we could have Rutgers, we could have UConn. There’s also a scenario out there, I know this sounds crazy, we could have Pitt.”
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Por (Dan Alatorre) on December 01, 2009 (Suggest removal)
Rutgers or UConn against UCF, good gawd, that will be ugly! It will be a slaughter. I like the UCF kids, but they will be in for one looooooong afternoon if they play those guys. They’ll be manhandled the whole time. Worse yet would be if UCF plays one of those 2 teams and WINS! If they beat a team that USF couldn’t beat, oh my gosh what the newspapers in this town will do.
Suggest removalPor (Dan Alatorre) on December 01, 2009 (Suggest removal)
USF-UCF, I have to say, I’m not sure anybody around here wants to see that game. USF doesn’t want to be in the SPB again, much less against a team we beat 4 or 5 straight times. UCF may want to play USF, but do they really? Losing again to USF wouldn’t exactly do them much good… Not sure how I see that one shaping up, except that I can predict a lot of fights in the stands, because they will sit the fans next to each other instead of across the field from each other, and the Trop is so close to both campuses that the kids will all have been partying all day, and, well, it has a lot of potential for bad things to happen.
Suggest removalPor (Ken) on December 01, 2009 (Suggest removal)
It isn’t that losing to USF wouldn’t do UCF much good (which is true, but irrelevant), but that losing to USF for a 5th time wouldn’t do UCF any real harm. On the other hand, the off-chance UCF might win is a HUGE upside. But USF doesn’t want this, and the BE doesn’t, so it isn’t looking likely. One of the northern teams is going to enjoy a trip to Florida.
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