I love our FBS college football team. They’re so bipolar this year.

The UCF Knights waited until 8 minutes left in the game to begin their usual second-half rally, down 20-7 going into the fourth quarter. They scored the winning touchdown with 23 seconds to go to win, 21-20.

That’s beyond coming back from the brink. That’s like waking up in the morgue when they’re about to cut you open to begin an autopsy.

The Knights are now 3-2 in the C-USA East, which is classified as “barely alive”. At least this weekend’s expected loss @ #2 Texas won’t change things.

Speaking of the Knights, their women’s soccer team are #8 in the nation and headed to the Conference USA tournament with the outright regular-season title and #1 seed. (New rankings, by the NSCAA, will be released tomorrow.) They finish the regular season with a record of 15-3-1, and are a certainty to advance to the NCAA tournament.

The C-USA tournament begins this weekend in Dallas. I will keep you all posted on how the Knights do. They do have a big soccer history, including an appearance in the finals of the very first Division I women’s soccer tournament in 1983, where they lost to North Carolina, 1-0. We are the home institution of FIFA 100 member Michelle Akers, and our current starting goalkeeper, sophomore Aline Ries, recently got her first cap (cap = appearance) with the Brazilian women’s national soccer team.

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I would like to call attention to another minor soccer team in the area, the FLORIDA SURGE. They are our amateur women’s soccer team. Like the other two, the Kraze and Orlando F.C., they play in Sanford at the Seminole Soccer Complex. This past year they were 2nd out of 6 in the Sunshine Conference with a 6-2-2 record, missing out on the Women’s Premier Soccer League playoffs with a last-day loss to Miami.

So yeah, we have plenty of soccer here, we just need to make more people aware of it.