Scott Frost’s offenses keep making cheerleaders and mascots do way too many pushups

UCF’s offense is good — I mean really good. The Knights are 5-0 with 38 points or more in each game. They’ve scored 51 and 63 in the last two games. The offense is No. 1 in explosiveness, and is top-10 in drive finishing and efficiency, according to our Bill Connelly’s numbers.

But all those points do not come without a price. It is the human toll of physical exertion. For every point scored, a cheerleader has to do a pushup. That’s seven pushups after the first touchdown, 14 pushups after the second touchdown, and so on. It looks hard as hell.

Someone’s gotta look like they’re doing some work in black and gold, I guess. The Knights makes all this scoring look so easy. Defenses are feeling the strain of head coach Scott Frost’s offense for sure, but on the home front, UCF’s cheerleaders are simply being asked to do too much. I can’t do 20 pushups, much less the 63 this young man was asked to crank out after he or somebody else had to do 56 following the previous score.

UCF isn’t the only school that does this. But it’s typically mascots who do the in-game calisthenics.

Oregon’s Duck mascot is perhaps the most notable sideline pushup victim of an offense’s success. At the height of Oregon’s offensive prowess, the Duck was doing around 300 pushups per game and tallied 2,757 pushups in the 2012 season alone. There was a wide receiver coach integral to that 2012 team’s success. The next season, he would become offensive coordinator of a unit that scored 50 points in seven of its games.

His name: Scott Frost.