UCF 29th in Last Fall NACDA Directors’ Cup Standings

NCAA Championship runs by UCF teams in men's soccer and women's volleyball plus a football bowl game victory and final top-25 football ranking positioned the Knights to stand in 29th place in the final fall sports standings released today in the 2019-20 Learfield IMG Sports Division I College Directors' Cup all-sports competition sponsored by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
 
Fall NCAA competition earned UCF 164 points—64 from a round of 16 appearance in the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship and 50 each from a second-round appearance in the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship and a number-24 ranking in the final USA Today/Amway football coaches poll.
 
The Knights currently lead all other American Athletic Conference programs, with Tulsa next (48th with 124 points) followed by Cincinnati (55th with 117).
 
The Knights currently rank ahead of 40 programs from Power 5 conferences—including 12 from the Southeastern Conference, nine each from the Big 12 Conference and Big Ten Conference—plus five each from the Atlantic Coast Conference and Pacific-12 Conference.
 
UCF's current standing comes on the heels of its 2018-19 Directors' Cup performance in which for the first time the Knights scored points in nine sports.
 
UCF is the only FBS program in the country that had each of its sports produce winning records (among the 10 Knights sports with win-loss records) in both 2017-18 and 2018-19—and UCF teams in football (10-3), men's soccer (15-3-2), women's soccer (11-4-4) and women's volleyball (24-8) all added to that streak in the fall of 2019.
 
The current NACDA Cup standings include results from NCAA fall competition in football, men's water polo, women's field hockey, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, along with men's and women's cross country.
 
The last 10 years of UCF Directors' Cup finishes include 106th in 2009-10, 63rd in 2010-11, a program-best 55th in 2011-12, 67th in 2012-13, 95th in 2013-14, 86th in 2014-15, 149th in 2015-16, 97th in 2016-17, 86th in 2017-18 and 62nd in 2018-19.
 
Here are the current top-30 standings plus AAC institutions: 1.Stanford 594.5, 2.Michigan 421, 3.Washington 362, 4.Wisconsin 345, 5.BYU 338, 6.Virginia 326, 7.Penn State 312, 8.Louisville 302, 9.Notre Dame 296.5, 10.North Carolina 235, 11.Florida State 232.5, 12.Texas 227, 13.Texas A&M 215, 14.Clemson 213, 15.(tie) Boston College and North Carolina State 212, 17.Indiana 207, 18.Utah 206, 19.USC 203, 20.Colorado 202.5, 21.(tie) Georgetown and Virginia Tech 198, 23.Minnesota 196.5, 24.Arkansas 194, 25.Oregon 192, 26.Boise State 187, 27.Syracuse 177, 28.Princeton 171, 29.UCF 164, 30.Florida 161, 48.Tulsa 124, 55.Cincinnati 117, 68.SMU 98, 78.USF 89, 81.Memphis 82, 98.Connecticut 70, 107.Temple 54, 139.Tulane 45.