USA TODAY Sports' Paul Myerberg breaks down the latest Amway Coaches Poll. USA TODAY
ORLANDO, Fla. — There was no offseason parade at Disney World. No national championship to celebrate. The offseason had none of the contempt and scorn once heaped onto a program reveling in the most successful season in its history. (Well, the offseason had less contempt and scorn, at least.)
Compared with last winter, spring and summer, this was an easy, off-the-radar offseason for second-year coach Josh Heupel and Central Florida, one far more familiar to programs on the Group of Five level than the constant stream of attention, a significant amount of it negative, previously paid to a team fresh off nearly gatecrashing the College Football Playoff.