2025 FTBL Preview: Inside the Schedule -- UCF Knights

UCF KNIGHTS

2024 Record: 4-8
2025 FPI Projection: 7-5
2025 Over/Under: 5.5

Aug. 28 Jacksonville State (W)
Sep. 6.  North Carolina A&T (W)
Sep. 20 North Carolina (L)
Sep. 27 at Kansas State (L)
Oct. 4    Kansas (L)
Oct. 11  at Cincinnati (L)
Oct. 18 West Virginia (W)
Nov. 1   at Baylor (L)
Nov. 7   Houston (W)
Nov 15  at Texas Tech (L)
Nov. 22 Oklahoma State (W)
Nov. 29 at BYU (L)

Biggest Game -- at Cincinnati: I have this game as the difference between the Knights making a bowl in year one of Scott Frost 2.0 or missing out on the postseason.There are a few potential toss ups in here, but the home game against Kansas comes at a time when I have projected them to lose two straight. A win here stops the bleeding.

Trap Game -- Jacksonville State: There's a new coach (Charles Kelly), but I don't expect the Gamecocks to be an easy out. It's a programs that won 9 or more games in 10 of the past 12 seasons (FCS and FBS). This is a very tough opener for an overhauled Knights roster. 

Upset Game -- at Baylor: I don't have the Knights winning on the road this year, but if there was a game that they could sneak out, I would mark down the game at Waco on November 1. 

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