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Over 57.0 points in the Cincinnati-East Carolina game South Florida +19.0 points over Central Florida Over 61.5 points in the South Florida-Central Florida game (TBD,TBD,TBD) South Florida +775.0 money line to beat Central Floridaįlorida State +2.5 points over Florida Under 59.0 points in the Florida State-Florida game (TBD,TBD)īall State -5.5 points over Buffalo Under 59.5 points in the Buffalo-Ball State game Over 62.0 points in the Western Michigan-Northern Illinois game (WIN,WIN,WIN)īall State 20-3 Ball State 20-3 Western Michigan 42-21 Utah State -14.5 points over New Mexico Over 57.0 points in the Cincinnati-East Carolina game Over 61.5 points in the South Florida-Central Florida game (TBD,TBD,TBD) Over 64.0 points in the Mississippi-Mississippi State game South Florida +19.0 points over Central Florida But I still made my traditional bet of 64.12 units on USF winning the game. The Big XII wasn’t going to kick out Oklahoma to add UCF. So much of that realignment stuff is about external factors anyway. Will it get us into a Power 5 conference? No. Is it going to happen? The line speaks for itself, and the War on I-4 football rivalry has historically been dominated by the better team. I’d love to hear an anthropologist’s take on it.ĭo I want USF to upset UCF on Friday? Of course I do. As college rivalries go, it’s very 21st century, and it’s very online. It’s rooted in the meta-competition of conference realignment. It’s a sports rivalry that’s not rooted in any actual sporting event. That’s what’s unique to the War on I-4, and why I think it’s so vitriolic when it has no real reason to be. Being in a better conference, bigger, and more important than USF is. UCF has already won the only game that actually matters. That’s why there’s not much to say about the football game or the rivalry trophy. Mike Hughes’ punt return didn’t bring about any of that positive change, did it? That was a bold move for USF, because it’s more our style to keep overpaid dead weight around forever. On top of that, an ineffective, unpopular defensive coach was fired in-season. It was so devastating that USF’s long-desired on-campus stadium plan materialized out of nowhere, and even became a presidential priority. It showed how far the USF athletic program had fallen from its Big East days.
And when they got it, the War on I-4 almost immediately went on the back burner. To say nothing of the post-season access, television access, prestige, and financial benefits they will accrue. UCF being added to the Big XII was the validation they had long sought. They want to be in a better conference, bigger, and more important than the other.Īnd boy howdy, has 2021 proven that. Neither school really wants a rivalry with the other. When this rivalry became intra-conference starting in 2013, I wrote a long recap of USF-UCF history up to that point. But there’s a third, more important reason we don’t talk about the War on I-4 very much: As we have been frequently reminded this week, USF has never won a football conference championship to UCF’s six has a male cow for a mascot and is still not located in south Florida.
The 2016 football game is the only time USF has ever possessed the War on I-4 trophy. There’s also the problem that on the field, USF doesn’t have much to say in its defense right now. Despite our overconfidence at times (hello, Tulane), we’re a rather self-hating fan base. There’s a reason, and it’s practically a meme in our internal discussions: “they don’t hate USF nearly as much as we do.” Nobody gaslights us better than USF football. You may have noticed that our blog doesn’t seem very engaged in the War on I-4. (DISCLAIMER: This game is for entertainment purposes only.