ORLANDO, Fla. — Josh Heupel, the head football coach at the University of Central Florida, was on a recruiting trip several months ago when his wife called and asked when his next flight was.

There was no flight. He was simply driving to Jacksonville, a couple of hours from Central Florida’s Orlando campus.

“Last year during recruiting, I got on maybe four flights total,” said Heupel, who put in years as a recruiting road warrior when he was an assistant at Oklahoma and Missouri.

Florida, after all, has the highest percentage of high school players who are recruited by Division I teams, the most blue-chip recruits of any state, and is by many other metrics the best state in the country in which to set up a college football team. And that makes U.C.F. the current definition of disruption in college football.