Has a losing season ever felt this good?
Sure, the Knights went 6-7, dropping the Cure Bowl to Arkansas State in brutally hard-to-watch fashion. Adding to the post-bowl funk was the fact that the Knights had also dropped their last two regular season games. But progress from the utter disaster of 2015 was obvious. It’s great to see this many steps forward from a winless and ugly 2015.
It turned out that UCF was a middling AAC team in 2016. The Knights beat the bad teams they played, and proved unable to beat any good ones (a fact we started harping on before the Tulsa game and unfortunately were never proven wrong).