re: UCF AD claims national title

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Uh we’ve been trying to get into a major conference for well over a decade, so we’d love that. Not to mention that it gets damn hard to schedule OOC games against P5 teams when your team is this good.

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Your team went 0-12 just two years ago. Schedules for most teams are not cobbled together at the last minute. The "when you're this good" argument doesn't fly for why you have what you have this year... you have that because your team was shite 2 years ago and your AD was trying to ensure that you could have a shot to be bowl eligible at minimum.

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UF, FSU, and Miami do everything in their power to keep us out of their conferences, hell USF did their best to keep us out of the Big East. All UCF wanted was a chance to prove on the field that we are one of the best teams in the nation this year and isn’t that what a playoff system is supposed to be about?

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Right, wrong, or indifferent, the ACC would be dumb to include you in their conference. I don't thing FSU or Miami have much to do with it. You don't add anything from a market standpoint that they don't already have. The SEC would not be substantively improved in any way either, given that UF dominates the central part of that state in terms of eyes on TV. I'm sure they *don't* want you in, but doubt they have to do much convincing, at least thus far. If the SEC starts giving serious consideration to trying to get to 16 teams for any reason, due to what the ACC did with the long term grant of rights stuff, you might have a chance there as I can't imagine the SEC wants to expand their footprint farther west, and the NC/VA schools that we might want are likely never going to leave the ACC.


I lived in Orlando for a while, have a ton of UCF grads who are friends. All of them have been much more rational than what you've put in this thread so far. I'd have been a little more sympathetic to the UCF cause this year if you'd at least been able to play the Ga Tech game. That would at least have given us another P5 barometer during the regular season. If you want to blame anyone, blame the hurricane there, or your AD's inability to find a way to get the game played still. Regardless of whether they weren't a great P5 school, I think that would at least have helped to give a little legitimacy to what you did....