re: May be premature, but the gators had better ...

The only way I see UCF advancing to become anything beyond what it is now would be the advent of 16 team superconferences. If that happens, the AAC would be the first conference plucked for members.

For reference, the current and future members are: UCF, Cincinnati, UConn, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, USF, SMU, Temple, and soon to be ECU, Tulane, and Tulsa. (Current member Rutgers is going to the Big Ten)

To get to four 16 school conferences, this group would have to be raided. Louisville would be the prize in this group, but after them you have to think UCF has the best shot of any of them to get a good spot.

Without the move to 16 team superconferenes, UCF is stuck as is...a good mid major football program.