(01-05-2018 01:11 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote: (01-04-2018 03:46 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote: (01-04-2018 03:44 PM)EigenEagle Wrote: Hindsight is 20-20, you've got to put the best 4 teams in using the most fair way possible, and that was done.
The hate for the G5 on this board is amazing. You guys are actually saying that the G5 should not get in.
You have no idea who the best four teams are. No one does. It is all subjective, which is the problem with Division I college football as a whole. My wife’s alma mater won the DII championship this year. They were the fifth seed out of seven in their regional. If they played in a restrictive playoff like like the CFP then they wouldn’t have. And that is the whole point of a playoff.
The College Football “Playoff” is still the setup from the bowl system. Designed to take as much money from univerisities and keep it for themselves. It is the only sport that a champion is not sanctioned by the NCAA. One of the reasons we were told we couldn’t get rid of it was due to the sanctity of the regular season. The CFP allowed a team that wasn’t even a divisional champ into the field, getting rid of that notion altogether.
Were basketball done like this, no one would have heard of Davidson or Gonzaga since they would have been excluded from the tourney.
The CFP is a complete joke and as long as undefeated teams are excluded non-divisional champions, I’m all for calling out the flawed system.
No..I'm saying that UCF did not have a resume, even with an undefeated record, that merited consideration for a playoff containing the top 4 teams.
Houston had a schedule a couple of years ago that would have demanded inclusion, but they lost a couple of intraconference games.
UCF could have gotten a payday game at a top P5. They chose to schedule Maryland, FIU, and Georgia Tech instead. None of those teams are going to impress a bowl committee in most years. The rest of the schedule....beating one decent team twice (who went 1-1 vs average P5 teams) and another 'meh' team once (whose teams they beat have combined for 77 losses). Oh, and three of those games....were at home. Best road win was at a 7-6 Navy team, and that game was a lot closer than the final score.
There is a path for a G5 to get into the playoff it is
1) Go undefeated
2) BEAT AT LEAST 1 TOP TIER P5 TEAM
3) Beat at least one other Top 25 team
4) Have less than 4 other teams finish undefeated
UCF failed on Number 2.
What I'm also saying is this...AAC teams cannot schedule OOC like they have a SEC conference schedule to make a playoff case. In that respect, they're just like any team in the Sun Belt.