2023 UFL Season

The 2023 United Football League Season was the tenth season of the United Football League, and was the final season of the league before rebranding to the Valiant Football League. The season began on February 24, 2023 with the defending United Cup champions Atlanta Bravehearts hosting and defeating the St. Louis Eagles on Friday Night Football by a score of 43-39. The season saw an addition of three weeks in the regular season, increasing the schedule from nineteen weeks of regular season football to twenty-two, including three bye weeks for each of the league's clubs through the season, marking the first change to the regular season schedule since the 2020 UFL Season. The season also saw the introduction of a new league logo, ditching the former football-shaped logo in favour of a new shield concept with blue and red streaks on either side of the league's acronym to represent the newly-renamed ACF and PCF conferences. The shield wears the league's same yellow and black colour scheme, introduced in 2020. The season also saw the introduction of a points format, ranking teams based primarily off the points gained through wins and losses throughout the season instead of wins and losses directly. This was done in an effort to simplify the impact of ties throughout the season, awarding teams no points for a loss, four points for a victory, and two points for a tie, officially marking a tie as being worth half of a victory in overall value.
The playoffs began on July 30, 2023 with the Wildcard Round and concluded on August 13, 2023 with United Cup 10 hosted in Kansas City, Kansas. This would find the PCF Champion Cincinnati Lynx defeating the ACF Champion Connecticut Stampede by a score of 48-41 in a rematch of the first United Cup, winning their first championship in club history.
The Atlanta Bravehearts had the best record to finish the regular season, notching 58 points through the season with a 14-4-1 record, winning the ACF Central Division before being beaten by the Connecticut Stampede in the ACF Championship Game. The Cincinnati Lynx would end the season with an overall best record, notching a total of 64 points following United Cup 10, finishing the year with a total 16-5 record. The Orlando Crusaders would finish the season with the worst record in the league, notching 16 points with a total 4-15 record to finish the regular season. The Texas Watchmen notched the first overall pick in the 2023 UFL Draft in exchange for finishing with the best record of all non-playoff qualifying teams, earning 48 points with a 12-7 record. This was a continuation of a three-year process introduced prior to the 2022 UFL Season into a second year where the best non-playoff team would receive the first overall pick in an effort to reduce the possibility of tanking in the league.
This would be the final season of the league in which the Vegas Demons would participate in, relocating to the American state of Montana and rebranding ahead of the 2024 UFL Season, having been granted approval for relocation by the United Football League itself following the 2023 UFL Season. This would be the second to last season in which the Baltimore Capitals would participate in, having been granted the approval to relocate to the American state of Massachusetts by the United Football League itself following the 2024 UFL Season. This would also be the final season in which the Los Angeles Bolts would participate under that branding, having ended their initial search into potentially relocating to the Californian city of Sacramento in favour of remaining in Los Angeles. The team would ditch the 'Bolts' nickname and rephrase their represented city ahead of the 2024 VFL Season.
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== Regular Season Standings ==
===ACF Conference===
====Coastal Division====
Place	Team 	Points	W 	L 	T	Playoff finish
1 	Connecticut Stampede	44 	11	8 	0	Lost to Cincinnati in United Cup 10
2 	New York Sentinels 	32 	8 	11	0	Did not qualify
3 	Baltimore Capitals 	28 	7 	12	0	Did not qualify
4 	Orlando Crusaders 	16 	4 	15	0	Did not qualify
====Central Division====
Place	Team 	Points	W 	L 	T	Playoff finish
1 	Atlanta Bravehearts	58 	14	4 	1	Lost to Connecticut in the ACF Championship Game
2 	St. Louis Eagles 	36 	9 	10	0	Lost to Connecticut in the ACF Wildcard Round
3 	Kansas City Core 	32 	8 	11	0	Did not qualify
4 	Fargo Oilers 	24 	6 	13	0	Did not qualify
===PCF Conference===
====Coastal Division====
Place	Team 	Points	W 	L 	T	Playoff finish
1 	Vancouver Outlaws	48 	12	7 	0	Lost to Cincinnati in the PCF Championship Game
2 	Tampa Silverstars	48 	12	7 	0	Lost to Vancouver in the PCF Wildcard Round
3 	Seattle Avengers 	32 	8 	11	0	Did not qualify
4 	Los Angeles Bolts	28 	7 	12	0	Did not qualify
====Central Division====
Place	Team 	Points	W 	L 	T	Playoff finish
1 	Cincinnati Lynx 	56 	14	5 	0	Won United Cup 10
2 	Texas Watchmen 	48 	12	7 	0	Did not qualify
3 	Vegas Demons 	44 	11	8 	0	Did not qualify
4 	Arizona Copperheads	34 	8 	10	1	Did not qualify
==Playoffs==
===Wildcard Round===
====ACF - July 30, 2022====
(3) St. Louis Eagles 	20
(2) Connecticut Stampede	23
Final/Overtime 	Final/Overtime
====PCF - July 30, 2022====
(3) Tampa Silverstars	14
(2) Vancouver Outlaws	31
Final 	Final
===Conference Championship Round===
====PCF - August 6, 2022====
(2) Vancouver Outlaws	25
(1) Cincinnati Lynx 	30
Final 	Final
====ACF - August 6, 2022====
(2) Connecticut Stampede	27
(1) Atlanta Bravehearts 	20
Final 	Final
===United Cup 10===
====League Championship Game - August 13, 2022====
(2) Connecticut Stampede	41
(1) Cincinnati Lynx 	48
Final 	Final
==Awards==
Award 	Player	Team
Jim Kelly Award 	 	
Herschel Walker Award 	 	
Lance "Bambi" Alworth Award	 	
Todd Fowler Award 	 	
Mike Wilson Award 	 	
Jerry Mays Award 	 	
Bobby Bell Award 	 	
Willie Brown Award 	 	
Novo Bojovic Award 	 	
Sean Landeta Award 	 	
==Branding Changes and Stadium Changes==
====Vegas Demons====
This would be the final season in which the Demons would play at Mackay Stadium in Reno, Nevada, as they would relocate to the American state of Montana following the season. This would also be the final season with the Vegas Demons as a club in the United Football League.
====Los Angeles Bolts====
This would be the final season with the Los Angeles Bolts as a club in the United Football League, as they would rebrand to be the Angel City Swans for the 2024 UFL Season. They would remain playing their home games at Dignity Health Sports Park in Los Angeles, California.