Whether you'll be attending your first Knights game or have been a longtime season ticket holder, this game twenty-four hour period guide volition provide of import information you lot should know before arriving to the Bounciness House and help you alive your best fan life.

Should you withal accept questions after reading this article, please refer to UCF Athletics' A to Z guide, which has the most up-to-date information regarding the football flavor.

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Space Game Campus Closure

Memphis | Friday, Oct. 22 | seven p.m. | ESPN2

UCF hosts 2 weekday games this season: Boise State on Thursday, Sept. 2.  and Memphis on Friday, October. 22. Both games kick off at 7 p.m.

On those days, classes on the primary campus, in the Central Florida Inquiry Park, at UCF Downtown, at the Rosen Higher of Hospitality Management and on UCF Connect campuses volition conclude at 2 p.m. Offices at those locations too volition close for normal operations at 2 p.1000.

  • Faculty who teach classes that beginning before 2 p.m. only cease subsequently that time will have the option to hold the portion of those classes that comes before 2 p.m.
  • Some staff members may be required to work past the time when the academy closes. In those cases, employees tin can speak with their supervisors about how their areas will handle operations afterwards ii p.m.
  • UCF will re-open for normal business operations, including regular class and activity schedules, at 6 a.one thousand. Fri, Sept. three, and Saturday, October. 23. Staff members whose regular work hours begin prior to 6 a.1000. should consult their supervisors nearly starting times.

Saturday classes will be held as scheduled on all of UCF's campuses on game days.

Fans wearing face masks with their arms raised
Masks are strongly recommended for fans while indoors at the Bounciness House. (Photo by Brooke Morris, UCF Athletics)

COVID policies

Nosotros're excited to welcome our fans back to UCF. We look all of our fans to practise their office to help usa consummate a successful 2021 season. That means taking precautions to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect those around you too as our educatee-athletes and coaches.

We strongly encourage all of our fans to get vaccinated if you are able to do so, and we strongly recommend that all of our fans wearable masks while indoors, in line with the latest CDC guidelines. Although most of our stadium is outdoors, please go along in listen that some areas, such equally remainder rooms, are indoors.

Masks will be available at locations inside the stadium for fans who need them.

We encourage yous to wash your easily frequently, and there volition exist hand-sanitizer stations bachelor throughout the stadium.

If you accept COVID-19, are not feeling well or are in quarantine, delight stay home and do not come to the game. You can easily transfer your tickets to friends or family online, or post your tickets for resale through your UCF Account Manager.

Tickets

All season tickets, grouping tickets, and single-game tickets are available digitally through the UCF Gameday app or your phone's spider web browser.

Visit UCFKnights.com/app for more data and answers to some of the most frequently asked ticket-related questions. The app has been updated with a new user-friendly option to admission your tickets well before y'all arrive at your gate.

Season tickets are very close to selling out. Fans interested in notwithstanding purchasing from the minimal inventory can call 407-823-chiliad. UCF faculty and staff are eligible to receive 20% off football flavor tickets (applies to ticket portion simply). If any single-game tickets are available, they tin can be purchased at ucfknights.com/tickets.

– Pupil Tickets

Admission to habitation games is free for UCF students, but mobile tickets must exist claimed through the official UCF Gameday app prior to game day. The app is available for complimentary on both Apple and android devices.Claiming a free pupil mobile ticket does not guarantee entry as admission is showtime come, start served.

In one case you arrive at the gate, you must have your phone in lodge to scan the ticket barcode, *AND*you must show your pupil ID for entry into the stadium.

For more data, including FAQs most student tickets, please visit the Pupil Tix Mobile Claim Guide.

Limited educatee invitee passes can also exist purchased for $28 through the app.

Graphic of Know Your Gate and the football stadium gate map
Fans are non immune to walk around the full circumvolve of the stadium in the concourse. That's why it is important to Know Your Gate before inbound the stadium.

Know Your Gate Entry

It is important to know your gate before inbound the Bounce House. The appropriate gate is listed on your game ticket. Fans can as well locate their gate, which is cleaved downward by stadium section, listed in the graphic above.

Annotation: Gate 15 no longer exists as a point of entry due to the new Garvy Centre for Student-Athlete Nutrition.

Graphic outlining approved bags and not approved bags for entry into the Bounce House

Articulate Bag Policy

To provide a safer surround and more than expedited entry for fans, UCF abides by a clear pocketbook policy that limits the size and type of bags that may be brought into all sporting events at the Bounce Firm. Information technology is strongly recommended you familiarize yourself with the policy if you program on attending a game to learn what is and is not permitted inside the stadium.

2021 UCF Gameday Parking Map

Parking and Shuttles

Where to Park

Fans who drive to campus on game days can park in a diverseness of garages and lots. While some garages and lots – in the Gold Zone – require permits, fans tin can park for gratis in most areas of campus.

Important notation about tailgating: Tailgating is not permitted in any parking garage. In parking lots, tailgating shall be confined to the surface area immediately behind your vehicle and shall not impede traffic flow or parking spaces for other vehicles.

Aureate Zone – Reserved Parking (by Game Day Permit Just)

Preferred parking lots and garages are located in the northeast sector of campus and are closest to the Bounce House. Aureate Zone lots crave a valid football game-twenty-four hour period parking permit, or an ADA permit for fans with disabilities parking in designated spaces. Permits must exist properly displayed at all times from the rearview mirror. All permits are limited to 1 parking space.

Preferred routing to Gold Zone parking (from the due south) is via Libra Bulldoze/Gemini Boulevard East and (from the northward or w) via McCulloch Road/North Orion Boulevard.

Garage H

Fans without permits who wish to park closer to the stadium tin park in Garage H for $twenty. Payments can be made with cash or credit carte. Donations back up scholarships for UCF students.

Garage H, located near the FAIRWINDS Alumni Center, also accommodates vehicles for authorized students displaying Student Government-provided parking passes and credentialed staff with permits for that garage.

Free Parking

Free parking is available for fans on a first-come, first-served basis in most other lots and garages on campus.

Exceptions include all residential lots and the Libra Garage on Libra Drive, which are reserved at all times for students living on campus.

Parking lot B4, located at the intersection of Central Florida Boulevard and Gemini Boulevard South, is reserved for official university business.

Parking is only authorized in designated parking lots and garages. Patrons who illegally park on or along any campus roadways or in other non-designated parking areas are subject area to towing and fines.

No vehicular traffic or parking are authorized on East Plaza Drive on game days until two hours following the stop of the game (or when authorized by UCF Police). Patrons who violate this restriction are bailiwick to towing and fines.

Attainable Parking

Parking for guests with disabilities is bachelor on the outset level of Garage C with a valid attainable (disabled permits or a Disabled Veteran license plate) on a first-come, first-served basis. The private who was issued the allow must be with the vehicle. Garage C is located at the intersection of Due north Orion Boulevard and Scorpius Street.

A free shuttle for patrons with disabilities and fans who accompany them will exist provided from the bus cease next to Garage C to the Bounce Firm (Gate 14). Those shuttles will run from iv hours prior to kickoff until two hours subsequently first. Throughout the game and postgame, shuttles will be available, picking upward from Gate 14, to return patrons with disabilities to Garage C.

Additional accessible parking spaces are available throughout the campus, and these spaces are available on a commencement-come, first-served basis to any guest with a disability who displays an authorized accessible (disabled) allow or Disabled Veteran license plate. Still, no direct shuttle service will be bachelor for these spaces.

Need to Know about Traffic Flow

Gemini Boulevard North (from Parking Garage H to North Orion Boulevard) will be closed to all traffic from two hours prior to kickoff until the game starts. Once the game starts until midway through the 4th quarter, this road will be open to all traffic. This route will again exist closed to all traffic from midway through the fourth quarter until two hours post-obit the terminate of the game (or as required).

Kickoff 1 hour and thirty minutes after beginning, all North Orion Boulevard lanes volition be dedicated to traffic exiting campus. No traffic will be able to enter campus via N Orion Boulevard.

Gemini Boulevard North betwixt East Plaza and West Plaza drives will be closed to vehicular traffic prior to and during tailgating each game day. Memory Mall tailgaters who wish to drop off their tailgating gear in that area tin practise so by the barricades on either side. The route will be reopened at the discretion of law enforcement following the conclusion of tailgating.

Shuttles

Fans can avert game-day traffic by parking at Enquiry Pavilion and catching a Park and Ride shuttle. Fans may park at the Research Pavilion edifice, located at 12424 Enquiry Parkway in the Central Florida Research Park adjacent to campus, and be transported to the Enquiry 1 Transit drop-off, adjacent to Garage C well-nigh Retentiveness Mall. The shuttles start iv hours before commencement and end two hours after the game ends.

About student shuttle routes connecting the principal campus and nearby apartment complexes volition run throughout the day. Game day shuttle service volition conclude 2 hours after the game ends. Game day routes include all normally serviced apartment complexes with the exception of Northview, Tivoli and Northgate due to their shut proximity to the stadium. Service to those communities will stop at iii p.m.

Rosen College students tin can ride 3 or 5 p.m. shuttles to the chief campus for game twenty-four hour period. Downtown students can ride 3:30, 4:30 or 5 p.m. shuttles to the main campus. Shuttles will return to both campuses iv hours after kickoff. In improver, routes departing the main campus for Rosen at iii:45 and for downtown at 3:30 p.m. volition keep.

A valid UCF ID is required to access shuttles.

photo of police motocycle
(Photo past Nick Leyva '15)

Game Twenty-four hour period Safety

Protecting campus is the UCF Police Department'south top priority, and then if yous see activity that looks suspicious, say something. UCFPD can be reached 24/7 by calling 407-823-5555 or 911 in an emergency.

And remember to stay hydrated. Four Water Monster stations volition be located within the stadium around each of the iv corners of the lower level concourse to provide fans with costless ice h2o.

Two male students play cornhole
All tailgating spaces on Memory Mall one time over again will be reserved for UCF students and alumni. (Photo by Nick Leyva '15)

Tailgating

Campus parking lots open at the post-obit times on game days:

Baseball Lot, Softball Lot; Lots E1-E8 and Garage F (Gold Zone permit required)

  • 8 a.1000. for all Saturday games and the USF game on Fri, Nov. 26
  • ii p.k. for the Boise State game on Thursday, Sept. two, and the Memphis game on Friday, Oct. 22

All other campus lots

  • Half-dozen hours before kickoff, merely no earlier than 8 a.m., for all Sat games and the USF game on Friday, Nov. 26.
  • 3:30 p.1000. for the Boise State game on Thursday, Sept. 2, and the Memphis game on Friday, Oct. 22

Retentiveness Mall

All tailgating spaces on Memory Mall again volition exist reserved for UCF students and alumni. Reservations for each home game will open up at 6 p.m. on the Lord's day evening before the game.For more information, please visit Knights on the Mall or follow Knights on the Mall on Instagram. You can too like the Knights on the Mall Facebook page for the near recent updates. Gemini Boulevard Due north between Due east Plaza and West Plaza drives will be closed to vehicular traffic prior to and during tailgating each game solar day. Memory Mall tailgaters who wish to drop off their tailgating gear in that area can practice and so by the barricades on either side. The road volition be reopened at the discretion of law enforcement post-obit the decision of tailgating.

UCF Alumni Tailgate

Alumni (and their guests) have access to a FREE tailgate at the UCFFAIRWINDS Alumni Center. All you need is a valid ID/driver'south license. In social club to accommodate our guests and promote all-time wellness practices during this fourth dimension, at least the first two tailgates (Sept. two and Sept. 11) volition be held outside on the front lawn and alumni parking lot. Tailgates begin three hours earlier kickoff and iv Rivers barbecue is available for purchase. More than details will be available before long.

UCF Alumni will also be hosting two road game ChargeOn Tailgates this season at Louisville and Navy. The tailgates include a catered buffet, open up bar, spirit swag and special appearances from UCF fan favorites. Admission is $45 for adults and $25 for children nether 12. To learn more nearly our UCF ChargeOn Tailgate events, visit ucfalumni.com/ChargeOnTailgate.

And if you're looking for suggestions on how to throw the best tailgate party, you'll desire to read this guide highlighted in Pegasus magazine that features advice from some UCF experts.

Game Twenty-four hours Traditions

  • #UCFansWear encourages fans to coordinate their colors, kickoff with black  for the commencement home game Sept. 2. Bank check Twitter (@UCF_Football) for a consummate list and for reminders each game calendar week for the wardrobe choice.
  • Knight Walk through IOA Plaza (starts ii hours and 15 minutes before showtime). Greet the student-athletes and coaches as they arrive on campus and make their manner into the stadium.
  • The UCF Tailgate Concert Series is back this flavor on IOA Plaza. More details coming soon.
  • March to Victory (90 minutes before kickoff) — join Pegasus, Knugget, Knightro, the Marching Knights and the UCF spirit teams near Knights Plaza, on the corner of Gemini and East Plaza Drive, for the fan march to the stadium.
  • Turn on your cell phone flashlights for kickoffs.
  • When you hear Zombie Nation, bounce.
  • Sing the alma mater after the game with the squad.
Cheerleaders in stunt form at night time with stadium lights bright behind them
(Photo by Austin South. Warren '19)

The Spirit Team and Marching Knights

It's not but the football game squad that impresses on the field.

UCF'due south cheerleaders finished second at this yr'south College Cheerleading National Championships, and the program has placed among the Height 10 26 times in the last 28 years under caput double-deckerLinda Gooch '85, including national titles in 2003, 2007 and 2020.

UCF's Marching Knights has been providing the soundtrack to football flavour for more than than four decades. Shop at their store for gear and other merchandise that helps support the band.

Official Watch Parties

Out of boondocks and y'all tin't brand it to the game? Are the Knights on the road? UCF Alumni chapters and clubs effectually the land host official watch parties. Visit ucfalumni.com/watchparties to see an updated listing every calendar week.

Want timely game twenty-four hour period information and insider content? Download the mobile app by searching "UCF Knights" in the App Shop or Google Play. You can too follow these accounts on social media:

Twitter
@UCF_Football
@UCFKnights

Instagram
@ucf.football game
@ucf.knights
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Game Solar day Gear

The UCF Bookstores at both the John T. Washington Center and Knights Plaza locations accept game twenty-four hours gear available for buy.

In that location are also four trade locations at the stadium: IOA Plaza, inside Gate 3, within the Stadium Club, and on the due east side of the stadium inside Gate 14.

In back up of UCF Athletics' vision to be a perennial Top-25 athletics program and "Orlando'southward Hometown Squad," information technology is essential to recruit, retain and develop championship-quotient pupil-athletes and coaches by delivering exceptional academic support services, competitive operating resources (equipment, travel, bacon and scholarship) and world-class athletic facilities for competition, exercise, training, recovery and nutrition.

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