Duke faces Central Florida Wednesday in the Military Bowl and it’s an interesting matchup. There’s no question that, at least at the moment, Central Florida is more of a football school than is Duke. They’ve done well enough to be invited to join the Big 12. True, demographics are a bit part of it, but the Knights are a very solid football program. Demographics alone are not reason enough for the Big 12 to move them up. You need to have some level of achievement too, and UCF has that.
You could say that Gus Malzhan took a step down after coaching at Auburn, but UCF is not a bad gig.