Hurry-Up Hot Seat: No. 25 UCF (05/04)
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Tom Fornelli previews the outlook for the Knights in 2020. Counting down the top 25 teams in the CBS Sports 2020 preseason rankings with insight from the authors of those team profiles. Fornelli, Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson discuss what's ahead for a UCF team that has given up some dominance in its own division and looks to return to New Year's Six contention in 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:24.7 | Off and running, this is The Hurry Up Countdown. |
| 0:27.9 | Here on the Cover 3 podcast, |
| 0:29.3 | we are counting down the top 25 teams in our preseason, |
| 0:32.9 | 2020 rankings at CBSPorts.com, |
| 0:35.3 | one team at a time in these hurry up hot seat sessions. |
| 0:39.4 | We begin number 25 UCF. |
| 0:42.2 | And on the hot seat, we are going to call Mr. Tom from Nelly. |
| 0:45.6 | So Tom, as we get started with opening arguments, |
| 0:48.8 | what is your, the one piece that you're really hanging onto? |
| 0:52.3 | Because UCF, you feel like you want to pencil them in. |
| 0:56.6 | You feel like you want to put them back into the American Athletic Conference Championship game. |
| 1:01.1 | What makes you like the nights going into 2020? |
| 1:05.6 | I think if we look at this team from a talent perspective, |
| 1:09.0 | it's still got to be one of those teams you consider to be the favorites in the American. |
| 1:12.4 | But I think that entering 2020, |
| 1:14.7 | it's a really interesting team to look at |
| 1:18.2 | because of what, if we think of what UCF has been the last few years, |
| 1:22.3 | where they have been in a sports that does not have a whole lot of Cinderella, |
| 1:27.2 | because they started off as a Cinderella, |
| 1:28.9 | but they kind of, you know, they wouldn't leave the dance. |
| 1:31.3 | You know what I'm saying? |
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