Way to drop this and then go on to use a quote that I never said from an article I never linked, that’s busch league posting.

The title claim isn’t so much about “hey we’re hands down the best team in the country” as it is “we went undefeated, won our conference, and just wanted a spot to prove that we are one of the best. Since we didn’t get that because of a 4 team playoff system that clearly doesn’t work we are going to blow the whole thing up”.

Guess what, the plain worked because more people than ever before are talking about how clearly broken the current system is. There is more talk about an expanded playoff and I don’t see how more teams having a shot at winning it all would be worse than what we have now.

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Posted by SummerOfGeorge

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Posted on 1/3/18 at 6:04 pm to PearlyBaker

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Way to drop this and then go on to use a quote that I never said from an article I never linked, that’s busch league postin

By "you" I didn't mean "you poster Pearly Baker".......I meant "you UCF AD Danny White" who is the face of this whole thing.

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The title claim isn’t so much about “hey we’re hands down the best team in the country” as it is “we went undefeated, won our conference, and just wanted a spot to prove that we are one of the best. Since we didn’t get that because of a 4 team playoff system that clearly doesn’t work we are going to blow the whole thing up” but I shouldn’t be surprised that you’re too dense to understand that.

I get that - and like I said to start my post, I have no problem with UCF doing that. I've long been a proponent of a system (probably 6/8) that clearly lays out a situation where a Group of 5 team like UCF this year, Boise in years past, etc can get into a playoff. It can't be a wide open every year thing because some years there is not a team with any legitimate claim. However, an argument certainly could have been made for UCF in a 6/8 team format this season and I think they totally deserve that opportunity. Top 8 team, 1 or 2 P5 wins, undefeated, Top 10 in some sort of "how good are you" metric (S&P+, ESPN FPI, whatever).

I do think that as a Group of 5......if you want to be given a legitimate look you need all or 3/4 of your OOC games to be P5 teams.......even if that means they are all road games. The P5 folks sometimes go overboard with the "IT'S A GRIND" thing, but I think at the very least you have to put a few games on tape out there to show "Hey, look, we played Kansas State and beat them by 14 on the road. We also went to Kentucky and beat them by 17 and we beat Arizona at home by 10." You don't have to play Alabama, Ohio State and Texas or anything, but at least be able to say "look we are doing all we can here".