{"id":54556,"date":"2025-07-10T16:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54556\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:31:17","slug":"space-themed-football-rivalry-on-the-table-for-ucf-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54556\/","title":{"rendered":"Space-themed football rivalry on the table for UCF, Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">UCF AD Terry Mohajir is \u201creceptive to the ideas\u201d of the school\u2019s football team playing the Univ. of Houston in a \u201cspace-themed game,\u201d according to Joseph Duarte of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE. Mohajir said that he \u201chad conversations in the past\u201d with former UH AD Chris Pezman about \u201csome type of \u2018Space Cup\u2019 game\u201d between the two Big 12 schools. Duarte noted UH has also \u201cexpressed interest in the game given the two schools close ties to NASA.\u201d The UCF campus is 35 miles from the Kennedy Space Center, while UH\u2019s campus is located less than 30 miles from the Johnson Space Center. Since 2017, UCF has held an \u201cannual \u2018Space Game,\u2019 which has included space-themed uniforms.\u201d This year\u2019s game will be Nov. 7 against UH in Orlando. One \u201cpotential roadblock\u201d to the new rivalry series \u201cis scheduling.\u201d While UH has \u201cpreferred to match-up against other Texas schools,\u201d a trophy rivalry game would \u201clikely involve the two schools being a \u2018protected rivalry\u2019 each year\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/article\/uh-ucf-football-rivalry-20763047.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/article\/uh-ucf-football-rivalry-20763047.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral \">HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 7\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCF AD Terry Mohajir is \u201creceptive to the ideas\u201d of the school\u2019s football team playing the Univ. of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[1428,1318,4345,1317,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-54556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114829897690434201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}