Despite being located less than two hours apart, Florida and UCF have only played each other twice before, with the last meeting coming in 2006.
And yet, somehow, their meeting in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa on Thursday night feels like a rivalry game.
Between UCF’s controversial claim of the 2017 national championship and the schools’ inability to agree on the terms for a regular-season series for a while, there’s way more animosity between the two fan bases than you would normally expect for a game between a Power Five blueblood and a Group of Five team.