The 2018 UCF Knights football group spoke to the University of Central Florida (UCF) amid the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home amusements at Spectrum Stadium in Orlando, Florida, and were driven by first-year head mentor Josh Heupel. The Knights contended as individuals from the East Division of the American Athletic Conference. The 2018 season denoted the 40th period of football for the Knights program.
The 2018 crusade started with the Knights endeavoring to safeguard their AAC title, and in addition broaden the country's longest dynamic winning streak, which remained at 13 diversions. Without precedent for program history, the Knights were positioned in both the preseason AP Poll (#21) and preseason Coaches Poll (#23). By week 12, the group had hoisted into the main ten of the AP, Coaches, and CFP positioning, the first occasion when they had been positioned in the best ten in every one of the three amid the standard season.
In the wake of winning their initial twelve amusements of the season, UCF broadened their school record winning streak to 25 sequential diversions, going back to the beginning of the 2017 season. The Knights likewise anchored their second-successive undefeated normal season, and second-back to back American Athletic Conference title by overcoming Memphis in the 2018 AAC Championship Game. They were welcome to their third NY6/BCS bowl in school history, the Fiesta Bowl, where their triumphant streak at last found some conclusion when they were vanquished by LSU, 32– 40.
The 2018 LSU Tigers football group speaks to Louisiana State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers play their home recreations at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and contend in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They are driven by second-year head mentor Ed Orgeron.
The Tigers completed the 2017 season 9– 4, 6– 2 in SEC play to complete in third place in the Western Division. They were welcome to the Citrus Bowl where they lost to Notre Dame.
The Tigers marked a sum of 22 initiates.