(09-28-2019 02:39 PM)owl at the moon Wrote: Until we have a 6- or 8-team playoff with a G5 autobid, it is what it is.
I don’t think UCF can claim they were wrongly denied a playoff spot under the current system. Top 4 resumes were selected (more or less).
I also don’t think anyone should question their co-national title under the current system.
There are at least two very good reasons to question the notion that UCF has a "co-national title" from 2017 under the current system.
First, the "current system" recognizes only one valid national champ - the CFP winner. That's the system that all the FBS schools and conferences, including the AAC and UCF, agreed to for choosing their national champion. This system doesn't include anything else, not even the traditional AP and Coaches polls. So it's dishonest for anyone that agreed to the CFP method - such as the AAC schools- to claim that anyone but the CFP champ is the champion. It's reneging on a deal. It's as if the LA Lakers decided that they are the true NBA champs this past year and not the Toronto Raptors. Or the New Orleans Saints, because they were screwed out of the Super Bowl because of a bad call in the NFC title game, claimed that they and not the Patriots are the 2018 NFL champions. It's farcical.
Second, the term "co" means "mutually" or "jointly", which implies something that is shared 50-50. I mean, if I own 100 shares of Microsoft stock and Bill Gates owns 100 million, nobody would say we were "co-owners" of Microsoft. You use that term to imply roughly equal partners.
By my reckoning, in 2017, Alabama was chosen as champion by the CFP, the AP, the Coaches poll, and about 14 other "selectors". UCF was chosen by one, the Colley-Matrix computer.
So calling UCF the "co-champions" must mean you think the CM is by itself equal to all those other polls and computers that picked Alabama. Of course, that's as dumb as calling me and Bill Gates co-owners of Microsoft.
Heck, not only was UCF picked by only one of the so-called NCAA selectors, they were picked by arguably the dumbest one. The Colley-Matrix computer says that Alabama is the 2016 national champ (even though they lost the CFP title game to Clemson) and that Notre Dame is the 2012 national champ (even though they lost the BCS title game to Alabama). They are the only alleged 'selector' that picked those teams, just like they are the only ones that picked UCF.
That's about as dumb a computer as there is.
So saying UCF is in any way shape or form a valid national champion is about as dumb as any idea gets, so no, I will not shy away from calling it just that, LOL.