ORLANDO, Fla. – Duluth Trading Company will be the title sponsor of the 2022 Cure Bowl, ESPN Events and the Orlando Sports Foundation announced today. The 2022 Duluth Trading Cure Bowl will be played at 3 p.m. ET on Friday, December 16 at Exploria Stadium – home of Major League Soccer’s Orlando City SC – and…
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – Source: UCF // The UCF Athletic Association and FBC Mortgage, LLC, have combined on a naming rights agreement for the Knights’ home football stadium that takes effect beginning with the upcoming 2022 season and will brand the UCF football venue as FBC Mortgage Stadium. The 10-year, $19.5 million deal…
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – The Clemson Tigers (9-3) and Iowa State Cyclones (7-5) brought the action late in the Cheez-It Bowl at Camping World Stadium Wednesday. The first half was relatively calm in scoring, with neither team scoring any touchdowns, but bandying field goals. Dabo Swinney’s Tigers got on the board first with a…
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – UCF came into Saturday’s game desiring another win, but Tulane came into it desperately needing one. First Half The Knights are 5-3 on the season, 3-2 in the AAC; while the Tulane Green Wave are 1-7 on the season, while 0-4 in the AAC. In each team’s first respective…
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – Source: UCF Athletics // For the second time in three seasons, UCF has sold its entire allotment of football season tickets. The Knights also sold out their season-ticket allotment in 2019. Minimal 2021 inventory remains based on limited single-game tickets, also partially based game to game on visiting team allotment…
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – Source: UCF Athletics // Tim Harris Jr., an integral part of Florida International’s football success the last half-dozen years as running back coach and recently promoted to offensive coordinator and play-caller, has been named co-offensive coordinator and running back coach on Gus Malzahn’s new football coaching staff at UCF. …
ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – Source: UCF Athletics // Brian Blackmon, a former member of Gus Malzahn’s Auburn football staff and one of the most successful and respected high school coaches in the state of Alabama, rejoins Malzahn at UCF as the Knights’ new special teams coordinator and tight ends coach. Blackmon in 2020…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) – Alabama coach Nick Saban has tested positive for COVID-19 just days before the Iron Bowl. Team physician Dr. Jimmy Robinson and head trainer Jeff Allen said in a joint statement that the positive test came Wednesday morning. “He has very mild symptoms, so this test will not be categorized as a…