Tom in Lazybrook
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RE: UCF National Champions
(01-08-2018 09:46 AM)The Knight Time Wrote: (01-07-2018 09:38 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: (01-07-2018 05:14 PM)Shrack Wrote: (01-05-2018 10:07 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: It sucks for them, but they didn't schedule anyone. And just like any G5, they could have gotten an away game at a top school.
Here's their resume
FIU - Won 7 FBS games, but did so against teams that combined for a total FBS record of 27-54 (only 1 team had a winning record)
Maryland (road) - Won 3 FBS games
Memphis (twice at home) - They're a good team, but no real resume builder this year. Beat ULM and UCLA out of conference.
Cincy - Won 3 FBS games
ECU - Won 3 FBS games and lost to a FCS team
Navy - Won 7 FBS games
Austin Peay - FCS games only count if you lose them
SMU - Won 6 FBS games
UConn - Won 2 FBS games
Temple - Won 6 FBS games
USF - Legit decent team, winning 9 games. But again, combined record of teams they beat.....28 wins and 77 losses.
Auburn - Definite statement win. But Auburn had FOUR losses.
If UCF had played and beaten Auburn during the regular season, they would have deserved to go to the playoffs, but they chose instead to schedule 2 crappy P5s that historically will rarely be on of any team's 'playoff resume'.
Here's another schedule that apparently makes you #4 in the nation
6-6 shouldn't have been bowl eligible team
10-4 Fresno - won 9 FBS games
7-5 CSU (didn't beat a single winning team)
@ 5-7 Vandy - won 4 FBS games
6-6 Ole miss - won 5 FBS games
@ 7-5 Texas A&M - won 6 FBS games
4-8 Arkansas - won 3 FBS games
4-8 Tennessee - won 3 FBS games
#20 9-4 LSU - won 8 FBS games
@ #26 9-4 Miss. State - won 8 FBS games
5-6 Mercer - won 0 FBS games
*Didn't win division
*Didn't win conference championship
*Didn't beat a top 15 team all year
This gets you into the playoff apparently
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Look, I absolutely loathe Alabama. I loathe their Board, I loathe many of their fans, I loathe their program, I loathe their risible claims to national championships they never earned. I want them to lose every game they play in.
And I think that Ohio State deserved to go over them. They probably have a bigger gripe than UCF about not being in the playoffs
That being said....they had as many wins as UCF and had three better wins than any one that UCF did before the post season. And if you want to put up Auburn vs Clemson in the mix, Clemson was probably a better win. UCF didn't play one decent road game all year.
BTW, Auburn was pretty damn near invincible at home. Away from Jordan-Hare, they were at best a Top 20 team.
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That being said, congrats to UCF and if they want to make the case that as an undefeated team, they deserve a share, they're welcome to do so. But I can't agree with them that, given their weak schedule (and one that was predictably weak - unlike Alabama, who scheduled Florida State OOC), that they were somehow robbed.
UCF isn't in the playoffs because their AD scheduled a crap schedule and schedule he knew was going to be a crap schedule. Teams in the G5 have to beat a top team to get consideration. UCF didn't, so they didn't get in the playoffs. Congrats on scheduling FIU, a FCS, Maryland and Georgia Tech OOC. Perhaps a game with Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, TCU, USC, Oregon, Washington, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Oklahoma State, Stanford, or Florida? UCF will probably have to do It as an away payday game, but that's life in the G5.
Welcome to the G5 UCF.
This is the most ignorant post I have ever read.
First off, UCF played and beat 4 teams that either were ranked at time of the game, or were ranked just prior. Memphis twice, USF, and Navy. I know you will of course claim the "AAC is weak" to compensate for your own conference, but it wasn't. We had 3-4 teams ranked in the Top 25 damn near the entire season.
As for purposely scheduling weak OOC- LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you serious? We destroyed a Big 10 team that had wrecked Texas a week prior. We had a Category 5 hurricane come between us and playing GT. It's not our fault that these "P5 programs" can't put teams on the field to match the talent and skill of UCF.
I love how you make it sound like scheduling a Bama or LSU is soooo easy. They won't play us. Period. We've had multiple return games to Orlando bought out recently, including Penn State who completely bailed on their Orlando game.
Our game with Auburn could have easily been a blowout. We had more speed at every position and missed at least another 17 points on open TDs and FGs. To suggest we couldn't play with UGA or Bama is hilariously laughable.
USF beat nobody. Memphis beat nobody. Are you really going to put Maryland up there as a 'good win'? Or a 6-6 Navy team?
Dude, you are a G5...GEE FIVE. That means sometimes, just like all the other G5s, you have to do payday games at top schools to get them. I didn't say you were going to get a home and home.
BTW, next years schedule looks pretty iffy too.
Oh and before you whine about 'teams refusing to schedule you', remember that UCF reportedly intervened with the Cure Bowl because the bowl committee wanted USA in the game and you guys turned up your nose at them. So you tried playing the 'were too good to play them' game too. And this year you got burned by others refusing - not to play you, but refusing to play you at your place. I hope you enjoy being on the receiving end of the 'no respect - so we won't even give you a chance' game that your school played last year against another team. UCF is no victim.
Welcome to the G5, UCF.
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