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McKenzie Milton's path from Hawaii allows UCF, Dillon Gabriel to keep thriving

ORLANDO, Fla. -- UCF hit its greatest heights over the past two seasons with an undersized, under-recruited quarterback from Hawaii. To reach them once again, UCF has turned to an undersized, under-recruited quarterback from Hawaii.

How a school in the middle of the most fertile recruiting area in the country went a combined 10,000 miles to build a quasi-pipeline to Orlando is only one piece of the story. The other is how McKenzie Milton and Dillon Gabriel made it happen.

Their improbable journey takes center stage in the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl against Marshall in Tampa, Florida, on Monday (2:30 p.