UCF likes prime-time spotlight

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The Knights benefit from a college football schedule that features more weekday games.

There used to be little ambiguity regarding what day college football fans could expect to consume their gridiron action. The pecking order was well-established: Friday was for high schools, Saturday was college time and Sunday kept the previous day's tailgating going with the pros.

But that was before ESPN.

The concept of midweek college football first began to take flight in the late 1980s as a kind of primer for the weekend's onslaught of televised college and NFL action.

Now the mid-week game has become a mainstay in a college football world where TV exposure means a national audience and thus an opportunity for the so-called "mid-major leagues" to improve their stature.

Kyle Hightower: Sentinel Staff Writer