re: #9 UCF...Where Are We At With Them Making the Playoffs?

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That's spot on. 1-loss non conf champ Clemson might be tricky, because Clemson's schedule might not be that much better than UCF when it's all said and done.

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every ACC team being a little bit better than the corresponding American team adds up over the course of 8 or 9 conference games... plus UCF doesn't have a Texas AM in the nonconference

I dont expect us to ever get a shot. The committee will probably rank us #17 or so when their rankings kick in.

And being perfectly honest, almost every team we play this year seemingly took a step back from last year. Can't help that. We actually went 4-0 against the overall Top 25 last year, and 8-0 against teams with winning records. No G5 team has done that since 2008 Utah.

We likely won't have that this year. It helps that Cincy and USF are ranked now, though. If all three of us can win out, the laat two weeks of conference play in the AAC East will be fun.

A good way to mitigate the weak schedule is to shuffle the AAC’s divisions every year. There are very few important football rivalries in the conference, so if you just take the top 6 teams and call it the First Division, and the other six, the Second Division, you give your stronger teams stronger schedules and a better argument should they go undefeated. If we took last year’s results and divided the conference this way:

FIRST: UCF Houston Memphis Navy USF SMU
SECOND: Cincinnati Connecticut ECU Temple Tulane Tulsa

Have the AACCG at the First Division champion’s home field, and shuffle the divisions appropriately for next year as well. This way you can avoid UCF weakening their schedule with UConn, ECU, & Tulsa (combined 8-28 last year) if you want.

frick ucf and frick boise state.

if a team wants a place at the big boy table, then play the big boys.

i remember when the U and fsu got a place at the table. they did it by scheduling hard opponents ont he road. they wanted a piece of the pie and took that shite with force.

usm tried to this before cusa, and they actually did fairly well.

i don't have any respect for ucf. fricking joke.

a few years back, lsu tried to schedule boise state, but bsu wanted a home and home. lol, wtf. just want lsu to lose millions of dollars by traveling to idaho while bsu would make money going to lsu. frick bsu too. fricking pretenders who would play one or two real games a year then cry.

UCF’s remaining opponents have a 27-12 record. I realize they aren’t playing the blue bloods if college football, but they aren’t playing the worst schedule in the world either. AGAIN...finishing the season with 3 highly ranked teams will be a HUGE boost for them. UCF is a legit squad and everyone knows it.

Nothing is wrong about asking for a home and home with a P5. It's actually a sign of respect if you can get home P5 games.

BSU had three big problems:

1. Academics are not PAC12 standard.
2. The other non conference games outside of one P5 game against an Oregon/OSU team were garbage.
3. The bottom of the MW is "Tulane in CUSA" bad.

Edit: If UCF goes perfect again and doesn't get in, then what is the point of investing in football if you're in the AAC? AAC teams are pouring a lot into trying to be the 6th best (and by some distance), but if this is how it is... ...then let's just be the Big East part 2.

It would take a year like 2007 for a team from a non Power 5 to ever make the CFB Playoff.

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i remember when the U and fsu got a place at the table. they did it by scheduling hard opponents ont he road. they wanted a piece of the pie and took that shite with force.

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They were independents until the 90s. Having to fill an entire schedule on your own affords more opportunities to play tough opponents.

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a few years back, lsu tried to schedule boise state, but bsu wanted a home and home. lol, wtf. just want lsu to lose millions of dollars by traveling to idaho while bsu would make money going to lsu. frick bsu too. fricking pretenders who would play one or two real games a year then cry.

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So when a legit G5 program does try to schedule a tougher opponent, you have a problem with that, too?

Both Boise and UCF have won multiple BCS/NY6 bowls more recently than LSU. They don't have to cater to anybody if they don't want to.

stop thinking we're going to get a home and home with big name programs.

they lose too much money.

become road warriors and try to get a place at the table.