Central Florida beat UConn 24-16 on Saturday to seize the Civil ConFLiCT trophy.
The thing is, the Knights do not care one bit about the Civil ConFLiCT trophy, and they made that quite clear after the game.
First some backstory: This “rivalry” game—note the FL for Florida and CT for Connecticut—was born last summer when UConn coach Bob Diaco decided his team needed a rival and created one out of thin air.
Central Florida has consistently not cared about this rivalry or the accompanying trophy:
Fast-forward to Saturday, when Central Florida came back from down 13-0 to beat UConn for the first time since 2013. The win entitled the Knights to the Civil ConFLiCT trophy and, well, they politely declined.
Surely at the postgame press conference the Central Florida coach and/or players would talk about what it meant to win this made-up rivalry game. Nope.
You had a good run, Civil ConFLiCT, but it might be time for UConn to give this one up.