{"id":431481,"date":"2026-10-18T20:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431481\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:44:13","slug":"ucf-set-to-host-no-2-byu-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431481\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF set to host No. 2 BYU on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time, UCF<\/a> will welcome the No. 2 team in the nation as BYU visits Orlando to take on the Knights at Acrisure Bounce House Stadium<\/a> this Saturday.<\/p>\n

Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m., and Fox will broadcast the game.<\/p>\n

BYU (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) moved up to the No. 2 spot in Sunday\u2019s latest Associated Press top 25 poll after defeating No. 2 Notre Dame, 28-24, on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Five of the top seven ranked teams lost this weekend, including No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 5 Indiana, No. 6 Alabama and No. 7 Texas.<\/p>\n

UCF (3-3, 1-2 Big 12) is coming off a bye week after dropping back-to-back road losses to ranked opponents, then-No. 20 Houston (27-17) and No. 18 Oklahoma State (42-28).<\/p>\n

This is the second time the Knights have faced a No. 2 team. They previously lost at No. 2 Texas, 35-3 on Nov. 2, 2009.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first time UCF has hosted a top-5 team and the fourth time the program has hosted a top-10 team at the Bounce House: No. 7 Cincinnati (2020), No. 9 Miami (2009), and No. 6 Texas (2007).<\/p>\n

The Knights are winless (0-6) against top 5 teams.<\/p>\n

Please find me on X, Bluesky or Instagram at @osmattmurschel. Email: mmurschel@orlandosentinel.com<\/a>. Sign up for the Sentinel\u2019s Knights Weekly<\/a> newsletter for a roundup of all our UCF coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time, UCF will welcome the No. 2 team in the nation as BYU visits Orlando…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[111,28,114,1335,139,141,140,76046,110,3865],"class_list":["post-431481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-college-sports","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social-sports","tag-sports","tag-ucf-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}