"For us, no one has control over how we feel," Diaco said Tuesday during the American Athletic Conference media kickoff. "No one else has control over how we think and they're absolutely our rival. The main intent was a fun and exciting game against a top-level competitor, which Central Florida is. We thought it was very cool to have the northern-most school against...the southern-most school, we think is a neat kind of energetic conversation. And they're a great, great program with a great head coach and great players and it's absolutely a rival for our program."