UCF coaches try to inject fun into unusual bowl week

This has been anything but a typical bowl week experience for UCF, which will play No. 16 BYU in the Roofclaim.com Boca Raton Bowl Tuesday.

Thanks to COVID-19 safety measures, schools are forced to treat bowls like a typical game week, with teams traveling to venues the day before a contest instead of spending a week enjoying a variety of local activities in bowl cities.

“This week is unique because it’s really more like a game week than a true bowl prep,” said UCF coach Josh Heupel, whose team closed the regular season Nov. 27 against USF. “At this point, you’re trying to correct some things and introduce your kids to some new concepts or whatever it might be and now you get ready for your…