[Postgame Thread] UCF Defeats Bethune-Cookman 73-6

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Bethune-Cookman	0	0	0	6	6
UCF	21	17	28	7	73

[u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

NO ONE SHUTS OUT BETHUNE-COOKMAN

[u/120snake → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Alex Grinch disasterclass tbh

[u/Lord777alt → u/120snake]

Wait is he yalls dc?

[u/QuadCring3 → u/Lord777alt]

Yes, and he's genuinely been the biggest surprise of the frost 2.0 era, he's honestly been a great DC for us which literally no one expected

[u/XrayGuy08 → u/QuadCring3]

Oh man, I remember this hire being absolutely blasted by everyone. Including me. But yeah, he’s been much better than we thought.

[u/Lord777alt → u/QuadCring3]

Interesting. I suppose after failing at OU and USC he improved.

[u/thefishwhisperer1 → u/Lord777alt]

In the few interviews he did when UCF hired him, he said he fully admits his schemes got too complicated for kids to execute.

Now we're basically running a base 4-3 defense and it's working. Maybe he's the rare coach that actually admits being wrong and changing.

Stares at Gus Malzahn

[u/Galumpadump → u/QuadCring3]

He was good at WSU doing the speed D. He is a guy who I think is better when he has constraints.

[u/Power_i → u/120snake]

Where did Chins go?

[u/The-Insolent-Sage → u/Power_i]

Boise St

[u/DetectiveChmpionFace → u/The-Insolent-Sage]

Well, that looks like it may have been good for boise state atm

[u/justintrenell → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

YOU GOT DAMN RIGHT!!!

[u/momentousconspiracyL → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

That's the spirit, gotta find the moral victory somewhere in a 73 point shellacking.

[u/IllustriousLobster36 → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

That actually made me laugh out loud.

[u/SGDrummer7]

We would’ve taken our foot off the gas sooner, but we wanted to punish yall for not bringing your band and robbing us of a great halftime performance.

[u/Cogswobble → u/SGDrummer7]

I went to a BC (or maybe FAMU) game at UCF many years ago when they brought their band…but it was raining and they had to perform from the stands.

I was very sad :-(

[u/QuadCring3 → u/Cogswobble]

Most likely FAMU, last time BCU came we did a joint halftime for 9/11

[u/a313hooker → u/QuadCring3]

Missing a true B-CU halftime show was the real 9/11 tragedy.

[u/QuadCring3 → u/SGDrummer7]

Their band has a massive performance in alabama this weekend, 100% makes sense why they didn't come even though it did suck not having them there

[u/LiteHedded → u/QuadCring3]

They also charge a fee. Which UCF would obviously not pay

[u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

UCF fans finally seeing a QB who can throw a football:

10,000 YEARS WILL GIVE YOU SUCH A CRICK IN THE NECK

[u/akrasia85 → u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

I honestly thought Barbara Goodson had passed away, but I'm happy to report the internet swears she's still alive.

More to the topic at hand, it does in fact feel like it's been that long since we've had a passable QB

[u/NPVinny → u/akrasia85]

Maybe you were thinking of the Japanese actress who played Rita (Bandora), Machiko Soga. She passed away 20 years ago.

[u/akrasia85 → u/NPVinny]

Hard to say. It could be that, or it could be the rash of people dying, including Optimius Prime, that just dampered that hope

[u/PPtheShort → u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

This exact same comment can be found in the first game thread in each of the past 5 seasons at least

[u/Usual-Web7597 → u/PPtheShort]

No way, KJ Jefferson looked awful in his debut. Throwing up absolute ducks against New Hampshire state

[u/PPtheShort → u/Usual-Web7597]

I'm sure there were still people acting like we finally found the guy with him. Hell people were talking like that about TIMMY MCCLAIN

[u/TheAndrewBrown → u/PPtheShort]

I remember being extremely worried and most people I talked to on here were also very worried. There was definitely more excitement about Tayven but that’s partially because KJ was so bad and Tayven came in and won the game after Fancher was losing it. But it was still not great since we almost lost to Jacksonville State. This year definitely feels far better.

[u/crashck → u/TheAndrewBrown]

There were people in the threads that thought it was nerves or something lmao I couldnt believe how bad he was

[u/Fastbird33 → u/TheAndrewBrown]

Fancher was ass at FAU. How the hell did he win another starter job

[u/LiteHedded → u/PPtheShort]

MCCLAIN!!!!

[u/FSZou → u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

Last season's QB room was the worst abomination I have seen in this sport. It should not have existed, and once it did by no means should it have continued to exist. Someone should have put it out of its misery and run the wildcat for the rest of the year. We're lucky a singularity, a plague, or God knows what didn't come out of putting that shit on TV every week.

[u/CieraVotedOutHerMom → u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

I forgot how rough Hodges & Godfrey were

[u/fade2blac → u/CieraVotedOutHerMom]

Godfrey beat UGA for us.

[u/Nike_Phoros → u/fade2blac]

Hodges wasn't as bad as any of the guys from the last few years, either

[u/UndercoverDimension → u/fade2blac]

In Godfrey we trust!

[u/kroghman → u/fade2blac]

Don’t minimize Latavius Murray. Godfrey was better than the guys we’ve marched out over the past few years. The recent QBs were negatives.

[u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 → u/CieraVotedOutHerMom]

Don't forget Rob Calabrese who Godfrey took over for.

[u/thefishwhisperer1 → u/Comprehensive_Bus_19]

Crazy that Calabrese is the WR coach for the Rams now

[u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 → u/thefishwhisperer1]

Lmao really? Thats wild

[u/Tarlcabot18]

Largest Margins of Victory in UCF history:

NC A&T '25 - 61pts

FAMU '19 - 62pts

Charleston Southern '11 - 62pts

Liberty '01 - 63pts

Grand Valley State '87 - 64pts (DIV II)

BCU '26 - 67-pts

Most Points Scored in UCF History:

68-pts vs NC A&T '25

70-pts vs Temple '22

71-pts vs Gardner-Webb '92 (I-AA)

73-pts vs Austin Peay '17

73-pts vs BCU '26

[u/tjstanley → u/Tarlcabot18]

The 2 games with 73 have some things in common, and hopefully more by the end of the season perhaps?

[u/Sea-Animator4250 → u/tjstanley]

Nattys baby

[u/takechanceees → u/Tarlcabot18]

beef with HBCUs apparently jesus

[u/BeefInGR → u/Tarlcabot18]

Fuck we were really bad in the 80's

[u/Rcfan0902]

I know it's Bethune Cookman, but damn is it good to see an actual ass beating from a UCF team again. Hopefully the momentum builds throughout the season. Go Knights!!

[u/191374]

Scott frost does NOT lose to Bethune cookman

[u/CPTBenjaminWillard → u/191374]

Just Georgia southern

[u/tjstanley → u/CPTBenjaminWillard]

checks OOC

Phew it’s Georgia State we play

[u/Tarlcabot18]

UCF starting QB's since 2021:

2021: Dillon Gabriel. Mikey Keene.

2022: John Rhys Plumlee. Mikey Keene. Tommy Castellanos.

2023: John Rhys Plumlee. Timmy McClain.

2024: KJ Jefferson. EJ Colson. Jacurri Brown. Dylan Rizk.

2025: Tayven Jackson. Cam Fancher.

It's been nearly 5 years & 60 games since UCF had a real, honest-to-god high-level Quarterback. Since Dillon Gabrial got injured Week 3 vs Louisville.

Mikey Keene was good, and could've developed into something special, but Gus Malzahn didn't know how to use him, preferred Plumlee and ended up driving Keene out of town. Same with Castellanos.

After that it was a string of QB's that couldn't pass further than 8 yards, were run-first, and/or were made of glass. Or in KJ Jefferson's case, got the NIL bag and immediately checked-out.

Here's to hoping Barnett is the real deal. We desperately need it. He looked better than anyone we've had since Keene. His deep ball looked a little off. But everything else was miles better than...gestures up at the list

[u/idroled → u/Tarlcabot18]

I miss McKenzie Milton (my brother went to UCF so I’ll always root for them)

[u/XrayGuy08 → u/idroled]

Pretty sure he’s the QB coach at UCF now.

[u/Blood_Fire_Lord → u/XrayGuy08]

He is

[u/XrayGuy08 → u/Blood_Fire_Lord]

I knew he was on staff but wasn’t 100% of his title.

Crazy how one play changed his entire life man.

[u/milin85 → u/Tarlcabot18]

I totally forgot Castellanos or Jefferson were at UCF

[u/Mindless_Luck7553 → u/milin85]

Literally most qbs were at UCF at some point

[u/Hobbes_121 → u/Mindless_Luck7553]

Never forget when Wimbush lost the starting job after the first quarter to Gabriel

[u/Jumpy-Coffee-Cat → u/Hobbes_121]

Pretty sure he lost in in training camp but got the nod for the tuneup game

[u/TheAndrewBrown → u/Mindless_Luck7553]

There was a point where like 5 starting QBs in FBS were former UCF QBs. Not included on this list is Parker Navarro who never started for us but ended up starting at Ohio.

[u/PPtheShort → u/milin85]

We like to forget about that too

[u/legend023 → u/Tarlcabot18]

I remember Plumlee at Ole Miss. Dude ran a 4.3

[u/kingofthesqueal → u/legend023]

Plumlee was a late round draft pick RB/WR masquerading as a D2 QB.

He had heart, but at some point a catch should have sat him down and told him how it was.

[u/yesacabbagez → u/kingofthesqueal]

Plumlee was fine, he was far from the problem with those two years. His inability to stay healthy was certainly an issue. The fact Gus' offense is allergic to coherent passing wasn't great either. There was like one game those two years where Plumlee was a problem, and even in that game I am pretty sure the defense didn't get a stop until the 4th.

[u/TheFreightGuy → u/yesacabbagez]

I never understood the Plumlee hate. He wasn't perfect but was a good fit for the offense and played his ass off. Best QB we had for a while there

[u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 → u/yesacabbagez]

Buddy looked for contact like a heat seeking missile. Lockheed Martin would've sponsored his NIL if he played nowadays

[u/Cogswobble → u/kingofthesqueal]

Plumlee wasn’t a great QB, but I loved l his effort and heart.

[u/Fonzie5 → u/legend023]

Very underrated QB for us.

[u/thelandman19 → u/legend023]

And that's about it

[u/baronz3r → u/Tarlcabot18]

Speedrunning cleveland browns level of qb ineptness

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/baronz3r]

the Gus Bus experience 

[u/Fonzie5 → u/Tarlcabot18]

JRP was a good QB. Certainly better than Mikey.

[u/igonnawrecku_VGC → u/Tarlcabot18]

Barnett is the real deal. He’s gonna have a couple absolutely atrocious blown checkdowns per game, but he’ll typically make up for it and then some as the game goes on

[u/SportsCat4]

At Pittsburgh will be the real test but great performance to build momentum entering that game

Feels like the Pittsburgh game is must win especially with how we haven't won in 3 years away in Non Conference and have only won 3 of our last 16 away games

[u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 → u/SportsCat4]

I agree.

I love to see that our QB made smart decisions, avoided unnecessary hits and could complete the short passes that we couldn't make in years past.

The score was irrelevant but watching how we played gave me hope (we cooked chat)

[u/Igwanea]

I'm not gonna buy into any hype until we've played an FBS team, but this team has SIGNIFICANTLY fewer unforced errors than any UCF team jn the past half decade. I was pleased.

[u/christdavis034 → u/Igwanea]

This is how I feel too. My hopes for the season haven’t moved. Just want to see some momentum and a bowl game. But one thing that blew expectations out of the water for me is how fun this group seems; it’s been so hard to tell with all the transfers over the last few years. I really missed this style of offense, too.

[u/Epcplayer]

It’s not a Scott Frost team if the defense hasn’t given up at least one score

[u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 → u/Epcplayer]

When you're pulling random fat kids out of the stands to play D line at the end of the game for funsies I don't really care

[u/TheOtherWhiteCastle → u/Epcplayer]

Scott “defense is for people who can’t build a good offense” Frost

[u/DerpityHerpington]

2017 part 2?

[u/NPVinny → u/DerpityHerpington]

🤞

[u/NinjaGhost42]

Make the denfese run stadium stairs smh my head

[u/Mikalton]

I was working here for the first time taking a shift in one of the stands. I don't watch football but when I heard the touchdowns in the first hour. I was laughing my ass off. I just kept hearing UCF TOUCHDOWN!!!. even the first one was funny to me to how fast it was. It's like watching baseball and we got back to back home runs in the first inning.

[u/championnnnnn]

not impressed until i see UCF rematch against russia

[u/orc0909]

Kinda racist, ngl

[u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 → u/orc0909]

They had an Australian punter, we're good.

[u/FloridaBoy317]

FUCK

[u/fhqwhgads_football]

THAT'S A LOT OF POINTS!

...

THAT'LL BE FOUR BUCKS, BABY!!

[u/Epcot92 → u/fhqwhgads_football]

YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT

[u/ChildrenMcnuggets]

Didn’t break the record, terrible performance

[u/thelandman19 → u/ChildrenMcnuggets]

Margin of victory was broken

[u/nyr00nyg]

Close one

[u/bwburke94]

So close to a shutout.

[u/earthling82]

Well that was rude

[u/HEELinKayfabe]

Is...is this hope?

Like watching the highlights as I can't watch games live at this time on weeknights, this seemed like a different UCF

[u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 → u/HEELinKayfabe]

We had a QB that made smart decisions, avoided contact when reasonable and completed short passes with ease. Something we havent had since DG.

Our RB room looks solid but our O Line is bad.

Defense looks much improved as well.

[u/virii01]

This UCF coach is a real up and comer. 

[u/800Bagz]

Another national championship season loading.....

[u/dagreenman18]

I’m actually upset we didn’t push for the record. What better way to start the season than breaking the conference record?! They basically just gave up

[u/thelandman19 → u/dagreenman18]

We broke the margin of victory record. TBH anything beyond that was approaching disrespectful

[u/dagreenman18 → u/thelandman19]

But we were in perfect position to at least break the school scoring record with a field goal and didn’t even try! That would have totally been within reason

[u/Mindless_Luck7553 → u/dagreenman18]

I disagree, imagine Barnett breaking his leg trying to break 80. Or coming out of week 1 thinking you’re the best and go into Pitt with an arrogance.

I think taking the foot off the gas and even letting BCU score was a good call. Creates a sense of humility

[u/Jumpy-Coffee-Cat → u/Mindless_Luck7553]

I think they mean the backups who were more than capable of scoring more points

[u/Mindless_Luck7553 → u/Jumpy-Coffee-Cat]

Regardless, is a backup potential injury really worth winning 73-6 compared to 80-6?

[u/Blood_Fire_Lord → u/Mindless_Luck7553]

Bcu basically got lucky it was literally 0:00 on the clock didn’t even kick the pat

[u/Memoruiz7]

Scott Frost is still on my naughty list. But he could get off it by Christmas.

[u/Citruspilled]

We were this close!

[u/Wonderful_Towel_3344]

FIRE SCOTT FROST, IM SAYING IT

[u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 → u/Wonderful_Towel_3344]

FLAIR UP, NANCY

[u/shaybeautyyy]

Gah damn

[u/nosotros_road_sodium]

Since that Ed Reed Instagram video, BCU football had a 6-6 season in 2025, baseball was 38-20 this year (receiving coaches poll votes at times and winning midweek games over LSU and Florida) after making the 2025 NCAA tournament, and men’s basketball has had three straight winning seasons.

[u/WildResearcher3901]

WE DID WHAT

[u/akrasia85]

Direct TV wouldn't even show me the game at a certain point. Hope they can iron out the really rough patches (o line, long range for qb1) but it's not the worst season opener

[u/Mc7Abyssrium]

Why BCU just exist to be a punching bag 😭

[u/TaroNecessary5350 → u/Mc7Abyssrium]

Isn't Rutgers that now?

[u/Davidellias → u/Mc7Abyssrium]

Cause Savannah State dropped down to D-II

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/[deleted]]

starters were out 5 minutes into the 2nd half too

[u/PolicyEntire3375 → u/bsEEmsCE]

Crazy

[u/yesacabbagez]

I was less than impressed by Barnett. I am also not sold on this OLine at all. BCU got to Barnet far more than they should have for me to not be concerned. Barnett also missed some bad throws. Most of his good work was short passing, which is great to be able to do, but if all you can do is throw short, it will be difficult to open the running attack against a team that doesn't get bowled over in run blocking. His INT was a terrible throw in both execution and concept. He doesn't have to bomb the ball downfield every play, but I also don't recall any solid throws downfield. Some decent short throws that got taken longer and most longer passes were kind of mediocre/ass.

[u/KnightlyDolphins → u/yesacabbagez]

He played like a QB who missed all of spring camp. Patience. It’s one game. The stuff he lacked in is improvable.

[u/yesacabbagez → u/KnightlyDolphins]

That's fine, but the same thing was said about jefferson 2 years ago. We don't have to bomb it downfield all the time, but we do need someone who can punish opposing teams if they creep forward. The fee shots I saw last night did not provide comfort in that regard.

[u/KnightlyDolphins → u/yesacabbagez]

I think you are still suffering from Gus Malzahn PTSD. Frost has proven that he is a much better QB developer than Gus if he has time and money to bring them in. Even at Nebraska, their offensives scheme was decent with Adrian Martinez.

[u/Sad_Bolt → u/yesacabbagez]

Barnett is a bandaid while we get Marriott up too football speed. As for the o-line I don't think we've ever had a good one but if this team can get 7 wins this season thats good anymore would be a great season. Next year will be the make or break year for this group.

[u/Papalew32 → u/yesacabbagez]

Glad I’m not the only one who feels this way

[u/Jonjon428]

Jeeeeez

[u/Tsunami-Papi_]

UCFLESSGO

[u/DukeDogNation]

Damn. Ball out, Zo!