With two full days to soak in the program defining victory against No.8 Louisville, the Knights are trying to put the win in the rearview mirror and focus on what lies ahead.
Six games–four of them at home–remain on the schedule, and the Knights control their own destiny as they look to secure a BCS bowl bid for the first time in program history. The task is simple, win the next six and head to a BCS bowl game.
On Monday, Louisville head coach Charlie Strong was adamant in saying that Louisville is still a better team than UCF, even after the home defeat.
“I said I have not changed about how I feel about this football team. And even though we lost that game the other night, and you have to give Central Florida credit, but I still say the best football team lost that football game. And we are. And I’ll continue to say that to them,” Strong said during his press conference.
When O’Leary was asked about Strong’s comments, he acted surprised.
“Charlie did that? Really?” O’Leary said before continuing, “..Obviously when you say the best team didn’t win you’ve got to look in the mirror. As far as players and coaches. So I’ll leave it like that. I think it was a great win and all I look at is wins and losses. I don’t get involved in ‘he said, you said, we said.'”
Quarterback Blake Bortles shrugged when he heard about Charlie Strong’s comments and like Coach O’Leary did not seem too bothered over it.
“We went out there and played enthusiastic football with a lot of effort and I don’t know he has his reasons for saying that,” Bortles said.
O’Leary wanted to make it clear that the Knights are not spending too much time relishing in the victory and instead are focusing on their next game against the winless UCONN Huskies.
“I haven’t heard anything about Louisville..they had their two days since Sunday night I went over the recap of the game, the good and the bad, and then we moved onto Connecticutt,” O’Leary said.
The Knights will play the UCONN Huskies in their American Athletic Conference home opener on Saturday at noon at Brighthouse Networks Stadium.
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