JBryant24

You do realize that 3 out of 4 of USF's bowl wins have come against mid-major teams -- including the "garbage" teams like East Carolina and Memphis that you mentioned? I wonder would you also rather not play a bowl game than win a bowl against such "garbage" competition? You make it sound like every team in C-USA sucked. There were (and are) very good teams in mid-major conferences like C-USA, MAC and MWC. Teams won't win championships in these lesser conferences without being good football teams. I doubt bottom feeders from the Power 5 conferences would be able to win them.

That is true it is about time. 34 years to beat their first legit ranked team? Wow. As bad as it gets for us I'll have comfort in knowing it can never be that bad. UCF didn't play in FBS until 1996 (then called Division I-A) so probably it'd be more accurate to say 17 years. They did play at least one ranked FBS opponent before moving up to FBS (FSU in 1995). But really, unless you play in one of the 5 main conferences, you're not going to get many chances to play ranked teams after your conference schedule and the obligatory early season creampuffs -- maybe one or two chances a season if you're lucky and most likely on the road. I'm pretty sure there weren't many ranked teams in the MAC or CUSA for UCF to play and even if there were, people would say that they were not "legit ranked".

That is true it is about time. 34 years to beat their first legit ranked team? Wow. As bad as it gets for us I'll have comfort in knowing it can never be that bad. They beat Memphis, ranked #13 a few years back. They ended the season ranked, something USF has never done. They beat Houston who was so overrated it was embarrassing to the college football world at the time. Tough for me to count that. I don't mean count it as a win I mean count it as something worth noting. What is the criteria for a legit ranked team? Was #2 ranking USF got in 2007 not legit since they didn't finish the season at #2 or ranked period?