{"id":136549,"date":"2023-08-08T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549//?p=136549"},"modified":"2023-10-19T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:05:53","slug":"25-0-part-1-an-oral-history-of-ucf-footballs-historic-2017-and-2018-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549//25-0-part-1-an-oral-history-of-ucf-footballs-historic-2017-and-2018-win-streak/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549//","title":{"rendered":"25-0 (Part 1): An Oral History of Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ Football/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s Historic 2017 and 2018 Win Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ approaches its inaugural season as the youngest member of a Power 5 conference, the athletics department is taking a look back to commemorate this special moment in history. The following feature is a part of Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s 12 for XII series /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2014 12 stories that define Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ and the meteoric rise of the Knights in their journey to the Big 12 Conference./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n


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In 2017 and 2018, the Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ football team rose to the height of popularity and disrupted the college football world with its 25-0 run that spanned 745 days. The accomplishment ranks among the NCAA Division I FBS/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019 top 25 longest winning streaks of all time, cemented Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ as a national brand and exposed access barriers to the College Football Playoff./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n

The following story is the most detailed account reported of the program/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s success, told exclusively by those who lived it. ESPN, when you/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019re ready to greenlight the 30 for 30 documentary /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2026 you/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019re welcome./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n

Scott Frost, 2016-17 Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ head coach: It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s hard to win a game, much less all your games. I think there/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s got to be some magic./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n

McKenzie Milton /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u201919, 2016-18 starting quarterback: The story of the win streak /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2014 I think it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s got to start in 2016 with coach (Scott) Frost coming in./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n

Shaquem Griffin /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u201916, 2013-17 linebacker and team captain: I feel like that story started with coach Frost at the time where you were starting to see the dynamic and the culture of Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ change./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n

Andrea Adelson, ESPN senior writer: Remember the situation that Scott Frost inherited. You/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019ve got a winless team, and a locker room that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s in disarray. Nobody knows how to win. And that might sound simple to say, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u201cOh, we just get together and win./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u201d That/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s a hard thing to do when you have 100 guys in a locker room who may all be thinking about something different./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n

Scott Frost: One thing I will tell you, they were 0-12 the year before but coach (George) O/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019Leary left a lot of really good players there. Sometimes things go your way and sometimes they don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019t, and when they don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019t, they can really go off the rails. But I give him credit for the players that were in the program and that I inherited./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n

Andrea Adelson: I was at Scott Frost/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s introductory press conference. I remember that very vividly. I remember talking to (Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ vice president and director of athletics) Danny White and to Scott and having this sense that there/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/u2019s going to be something different here now. A lot of those press conferences are just formulaic and cliches. But there was just a different sort of energy in that room./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136549/n