(01-04-2018 06:59 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  Haven't read all the previous posts, so I'm sure I'm going to repeat some stuff.

Not planning on boycotting the championship because I want to see the two best teams in the country play for a title.

I'm glad UCF achieved what it did this year, as it can only help (along with the B1G getting left out of a playoff that ended with two SEC teams matching up) expand the playoffs to a point that G5 schools have a shot (8 teams is probably enough, though).

It's hard to feel too bad for UCF in getting left out, though. Maybe I'll feel differently if we're ever fortunate enough to be in the same situation at GSU. Could they compete, even in a four-team playoff? Probably. However, they know they're G5s in the FBS and are getting exactly what they bargained for. If you're seriously competing for a top 4 spot as a G5, you'd better beef up your OOC like crazy. If that means not scheduling FCS teams and only scheduling the top of the G5, so be it. (That goes for you, too, Boise State circa 2006-2010.)

Oh, you mean like Bama did this year with their #47 ranked strength of schedule, right? Oh, and all non-conference games either played at home or on a neutral field, too. Oh, and someone please tell me again how UCF's "full body of work" was inferior to Bama's? It's rigged. Badly. Time for a change in the CFP - like, maybe turning it back over to the NCAA governing body like all other divisions and sports do? Wow, whadda concept!

EDITED TO ADD: UCF's AD brought up a great point about how, in recent history, there were often at least 2 national champs (since the NCAA doesn't run D-1A/FBS football) and that their "Nat'l Champ" swag wasn't intended to take anything away from Bama or Georgia, just to be recognized as "co-champs" like many others have in the past. I believe it was he who mentioned the CFP was based on opinion (of 13 P5'ers in a circle jerk) and was no different than the previous national champs who earned their "championship" based upon opinion as well.