The 2012 season opener for the UCF football team will be a blast from the past when it travels to Ohio to take on Akron at 7 p.m. The former Mid-American Conference foes once again battle on the gridiron and UCFAthletics.com has you covered with how to follow all of tonight's action, including five Twitter notes to tweet out to all of your followers.

• UCF (0-0) at Akron (0-0)
• InfoCision Stadium (27,000) - Akron, Ohio - 7 p.m.
• Watch it live on ESPN 3 and listen on WYGM 740-AM (flagship), WFLF 540-AM (Maitland), WDCF 1350-AM (Clearwater), WROD 1340-AM (Daytona Beach), WWCN 770-AM (Fort Myers)
• Follow the action all game long with updates from @UCF_Football and @UCF_Athletics on Twitter.
• Don't forget to "Like" the Knights on Facebook as well to see pictures from the season opener.
• For the stat buffs out there, follow on .

• Five Tweetable Tidbits

• #UCF has 8 returning athletes who have at least 1 rushing TD. The Knights have 69 TDs returning, 2nd in nation to Wisconsin (78) #PunchItIn
• Tonight marks O'Leary's third meeting with a member of the Bowden family. At GT, he took on Bobby (FSU) and Tommy (Clemson) #FamilyReunion
• #UCF will look to even up its all-time record against teams from Ohio (12-14) when it takes on #Akron and #OSU back-to-back #BuckeyeState
• On this day in 2008, #UCF blanked South Carolina State, 17-0, in its season opener behind Latavius Murray's first-career TDs #AStarIsBorn
• #UCF is the only school in the country which has led its respective conference in rushing defense every year from 2008-11 #WeRunThis