I know I’m preaching to the choir, but...

Noone cares, either you are talking about aranda or you arent talking

It was a lot easier sell before they buttfricked Auburn by double digies

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Could this possibly be one of the factors that crossed the committees mind?

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It's the same reason that Hawaii didn't play for the NC in 2007. Their schedule was terrible.

I agree that there need to be some changes in CFB. Whether that's expanding the playoffs, altering the regular season schedules, etc. I don't know.

But I do know that people can't use UCF's win over Auburn to retroactively argue that they should've been included in the playoffs, whose participants were decided before the Peach Bowl was played.

Had UCF beaten Auburn in the regular season, then they would have a valid argument.

It's like a high school senior who submits an average application to MIT and gets denied. Then he decides to single-handedly build a rocket engine, and tells MIT "See what I did? Why did you deny me?" Their response would be "Well shite son, had you submitted that information along with your application, we probably would've made a different decision."

I can understand the disappointment, but as football program that wants to be taken seriously you have to put at least one or two decent teams on your schedule if you want to play for the big dance. We’ve seen this happen with multiple teams in the past. Just last year Western Michigan was undefeated in the regular season and no one cried when they weren’t put into the playoffs.

Literally nobody alive truly believes UCF deserved to be in or deserves to be called a national champion. They bring it up to poke at the system, the SEC, and the Bama/UGA fan bases.

UCF this year was no more deserving (perhaps less so) than other undefeated teams who were not considered for the sport's national championship as they clearly weren't playing the same caliber football as the big boys. E.g. TCU (2010), Boise (2006, 2009), Auburn (2004), Utah (2004, 2008), Marshall (1999), Tulane (1998), (Auburn 1993), etc. Winning one game in a meaningless bowl doesn't make up for the rest of the season.

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but as a smaller program, there’s only so much you can do.

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WRONG.

Join a real conference. They can always do that. It may take a LONG time but no day like the present to get started on it.

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Join a real conference.

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Just like that, huh?
The University of Houston has been campaigning to join a “real” conference for years.
It’s been their entire existence, of late.
I think you know that’s not how it works.


I’m not suggesting that any of the teams who made the CFP shouldn’t have.
But if you can’t see why UCF’s players and fans may be bummed, there’s not much I can say.

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What are the odds that UCF goes unscathed with their schedules versus the odds that one of the 4 teams goes unscathed with UCFs schedule?

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Name the playoff participant that went unscathed with their own schedule first.

I mean Wisconsin's schedule was no better than UCF's and they were a conference championship away from being in.


People like to act like the bottom 2/3 of the SEC (or Big10, Big12, Pac12, whatever) is way better than it really is. Is the average SEC schedule tougher than an AAC schedule, sure it is. Could you fill out an SEC schedule that was as weak as UCF's schedule, I think you could.