May 17, 2005
ORLANDO - UCF will play its home football games vs. Marshall (Sept. 24), Memphis (Oct. 8) and Tulane (Oct. 22) at 6 p.m. and the 2005 Homecoming contest vs. Houston (Nov. 5) at 4 p.m., UCF athletics director Steve Orsini announced Tuesday.
"We prefer to play our home games at 6 p.m. after receiving input from our fans, alumni, students and season ticket holders," Orsini stated. "As we begin a new era of UCF football in Conference USA, we wanted to keep the traditional evening start times we have had at UCF."
The Golden Knights begin the season Thursday, Sept. 1 at South Carolina in the first college football broadcast of the season on ESPN. UCF will be making its fourth consecutive appearance on ESPN in season openers.
Game times have also been set for an additional four road games. The Southern Miss game on Oct. 15 will start at 7 p.m. while the East Carolina game on Oct. 29 has a 2 p.m. kickoff time. The final two road games of the season, Nov. 12 at UAB and Nov. 19 at Rice, will have 4 p.m. and 3 p.m. kickoff times, respectively.
USF and Louisiana-Lafayette have yet to announce game times.
Season tickets are on sale now at the UCF Ticket Office, located in the UCF Arena or by calling 407-823-GOLD or via the Internet at www.ucfathletics.com.
Season ticket prices include four home games, plus value added benefits such as a chance to win a trip for two to an away game, plus your choice of two men's basketball, two women's basketball or two baseball individual game tickets for the 2005-2006 seasons.
Individual Football game tickets for non-season ticket holders will go on sale August 1, 2005.