After a slow start to the 2020 football season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Athletic Conference is finally taking off.
With conference matchups in full swing across the AAC, here’s a look at how teams fared this past weekend:
UCF (2-2, 1-2 AAC) vs. Memphis (2-1, 1-1):
A shootout at the Liberty Bowl with nearly 19,000 fans in attendance left UCF, the preseason AAC favorites, with a bitter defeat, falling 50-49 to Memphis on Saturday night.
After being up 35-14 with 11 minutes left in the third quarter, the Knights got outscored 36-14 by Memphis, whose comeback was capped off by junior receiver Calvin Austin III’s four-yard touchdown catch to put the Tigers up by one with just over a minute remaining in the game.