Stakes are high for UCF
The Knights need to beat Tulsa, a team they played in the first C-USA title game, to get on track.
He was just a freshman at the time, but UCF junior L.J. Anderson didn't need a lot of perspective to appreciate how special it was to be playing football in December.
It was 2005 and Anderson and his teammates were walking into a Florida Citrus Bowl atmosphere that nobody associated with the Knights' program had ever seen before: a school-record crowd of 51,978 fans and a national TV audience watched the Knights play host to Tulsa in the inaugural Conference USA Championship Game.
"I remember it just being the most exciting game of the year," said Anderson, who started the 2005 game.
UCF didn't win that day. But two years later, the stakes are almost as high as the Knights prepare to host Tulsa for their first regular-season meeting.
It was 2005 and Anderson and his teammates were walking into a Florida Citrus Bowl atmosphere that nobody associated with the Knights' program had ever seen before: a school-record crowd of 51,978 fans and a national TV audience watched the Knights play host to Tulsa in the inaugural Conference USA Championship Game.
"I remember it just being the most exciting game of the year," said Anderson, who started the 2005 game.
UCF didn't win that day. But two years later, the stakes are almost as high as the Knights prepare to host Tulsa for their first regular-season meeting.
Kyle Hightower: Orlando Sentinel
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