Knights still may lean on Schneider

For a brief moment during UCF’s 30-16 loss to Temple, freshmen quarterbacks Bo Schneider and Tyler Harris started warming up on the sideline and it appeared one of them would temporarily relieve Justin Holman.

Although neither ended up going into the game, UCF coach George O’Leary wanted them ready to go.

“How I look at it is just fluidness and what we’re doing with the ball. I think [Holman] needed to see what was going on in the field. Sometimes you take a quarterback out not because he’s playing bad but because he needs to see what’s going on out there as far as making sure he’s looking at the right things,” O’Leary said. “I had told Bo to warm up in case we did make that move.”

Coaches said Holman was healthy enough to compete but acknowledged that his finger wasn’t 100 percent either after he took a hard hit and a player subsequently fell on his right hand.

“We’re not one to make excuses with talking about it. He got hit and one of those guys landed on him during the course of the game. But I thought he was still able to be effective with his reads,” UCF quarterbacks coach Danny Barrett said. “He was seeing everything, that’s the key anytime you’re at the quarterback position. . . . Now obviously you have to do everything mechanically that you can and he was seeing things and it had come down to doing everything the right way.”

Next game: UCF vs. No. 21 Houston, noon Saturday, ESPNews

Shannon Green