Going to go ahead and predict right now that the AAC, Danny White, and Mike Aresco aren't going to be thrilled with where UCF ends up. Honestly, we can complain that the system is supposedly rigged against the G5 but UCF doesn't deserve it. Their only Power 5 win is a mediocre Pitt team. Stop only accepting home-and-homes with crappy P5 teams if you want to be considered and stop beating your chest over your P5 wins when you have the easiest P5 schedule of all the G5 leagues by far.

Honestly, the AAC needs to just stop embarrassing themselves with this ridiculous "Power 6" nonsense (clearly they aren't being taken seriously) and band together with the other G5 leagues to push for a playoff expansion. I mean, they have a losing record to the rest of the G5 leagues since bowl season last year.

UCF missed a game against GaTech last year due to a hurricane and this season against UNC due to a hurricane. Not that those are barn burner P5 schools, but they have had bad luck when it comes to weather.

Last year they beat an Auburn team in a bowl game that beat both Alabama and Georgia, the two teams that played for the NC.

If they go undefeated again this season, they deserve an opportunity. If they don’t get an opportunity then we need accept the fact that we are FBS in name only and need to go ahead and become our own separate division of football and crown our own NC. Give our kids something realistic to play for.

I agree I think they'll be disappointed. And maybe what they've done this year alone doesn't warrant inclusion.

But they have won 19 straight games, have had games cancelled due to hurricanes vs. two P5s (UNC and Georgia Tech), have beaten 3 P5s in this winning streak (Maryland, Auburn [can't deny this was a really impressive win], and Pitt), and have multiple series set up with P5s in the next couple years (Stanford and Pitt in 2019, North Carolina and Georgia Tech in 2020, Louisville in 2021, Louisville and Georgia Tech in 2022, UNC in 2024 and 2025).

They're scheduling games with P5 teams and winning all their games. What else can they do? Try their best to schedule top tier P5 teams that probably want nothing to do with them is all there is left to do. And who's to say they aren't trying that?

All it shows, is that we'll never have a seat at the table in our league in the current system without getting impossibly lucky. Hopefully there's another adjustment to the system in the near future that is more inclusive (and not the creation of a 3rd D1 sub-division in football).

UCF will be ranked just low enough so that even if they win out in dramatic fashion they can never climb high enough to get to #4.