This week is the regular season finale on the road vs UAB. Last year they came to our place and embarrassed us. Let’s not forget that. They can become bowl eligible with a win. Let’s ruin it for them. GO KNIGHTS!!

See what happens when you bring back the black jerseys? Great things. Congrats Knights. Remember what UAB did last year. Payback time!

UCF Obviously must win it’s last two games. This Saturday the Knights take on Tulane at home. Next week they travel to UAB. The other games that must go our way are this week Southern Miss must lose to Tulsa and East Carolina must lose to UAB. Tulsa didn’t help us out last week. In fact they didn’t put up much of a fight at all. After the heartbreaker to Houston, they may be throwing in the towel.

If those games go our way this week, then we need in addition to winning against UAB, we need Southern Miss to beat East Carolina. If those five games go our way then the Gators won’t be the only Florida team playing for a conference title in two weeks. If I was In Vegas I would bet $50 on us to win the East, just because the odds would be steep. I would not bet $1000 because whatever you bet on us, you’re throwing your money away. But a slim chance is better than none. As long as we do our part and win the last two games, I won’t complain.

Congratulations to Coach O’Leary and the Knights on a HUGE win on Saturday! We at fireoleary.com will give it one more year (as if we have a choice anyway). If the Knights and Coach O’Leary have a successful season next year, proving they can get off the every other year roller coaster, we will suspend efforts to remove O’Leary as head coach. We will now be rooting like mad for East Carolina to lose tonight to keep the Knights’ conference title hopes alive. Should we win the C-USA East, I will gladly eat my words on George getting us eliminated in September.  Again, congrats to the Knights on beating the first ranked opponent in school history. Now that we all know it can be done, let’s do it again! GO TULSA!

This week will be a perfect opportunity to grade the Knights and O’Leary. We will see whether O’Leary’s style of football can truly succeed in this conference. Houston, a top 15 team, comes to Bright House Stadium. Houston is your typical C-USA team. They have a superb offense, and not much defense. If you saw highlights of their last game against Tulsa, you know what I mean. They scored 10 points in the last 27 seconds to pull out a 46-45 win.  As we all know, UCF couldn’t score 46 points in a month. But, when not playing the #2 team in the nation, it takes a while to score that many on UCF’s defense too. This game is the irresistable force vs. the immovable object.  It will be interesting to see who will have their way. One thing we will know for sure is how UCF will stand after the game. If the Knights win and it’s a low scoring game, then O’Leary can claim that his style CAN succeed in this conference. If Houston wins in a shootout, the naysayers will be able to point out that you must have a high powered offense in this league.  As good as UCF’s defense is, I don’t think we can totlally shut down their offense. We must score some points.

This is it George. Saturday UCF visits Texas. #2 Texas. You want to prove to us that you are the right man for this job? Here’s your chance. I’m not asking you to beat Texas. That’s just silly. Just show some fight. Hang in there and scare them. Show us some of what we saw in the 90s when we went to #1 Nebraska and led them at halftime. Wyoming was leading Texas late in the first half. Show us we’re at least as good as Wyoming.Tell you what George. Beat Texas and the site comes down on Sunday.

What a game!! Congrats to the Knights! Way to hang in there! That game probably just put UCF in a Bowl Game! Unbelievable!