re: Will national sports pollsters respect UCF now or has nothing changed?

You can still schedule a occ road game without a return date. You just have one less home game or schedule a neutral site game and take a way less gate total than the other team. I'm just telling you that's what they have to do. if they aren't willing to do that maybe the should just shut down the program or just learn to live with the level they are at. The truth of it is that it will take 10 or more years of being in the top 20 before people will respect them maybe even more. It's a long game.

Getting a decent reputation is far easier as Independent when you can basically dictate your schedule by targeting P5s compared to being in a shitty conference where they have to play in conference for a significant number of games.

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But CFB and the playoff format is broken. When 75% of the 130 teams in CFB have zero chance of making the playoffs going INTO the season, it’s broken.

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The 130 teams part is the problem. There's no way in hell FBS should have that many teams on the "highest level"

Get it down to half that and now you're talking.

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8 team playoff.

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Make it 24 like NCAA Bylaws dictate for every sport

You can still use bowls and conferences can determine their entry into it.

24 is the number by the rules

It’s number FCS and 3 use. 2 has 28

It gives everyone a legit shot and all champions get in


This would have been the bracket last year

Auto Qualifiers
AAC UCF
ACC Clemson
Big Ten Ohio State
Big 12 Oklahoma
CUSA UAB
MAC NIU
MWC Fresno
PAC Washington
SEC Alabama
SBC Appalachian St

The bracket using Auto bids and At larges

Utah vs West Virginia, winner plays Alabama
Appalachian St vs Washington, winner plays UCF
Washington St vs Texas A&M, winner plays Oklahoma
Penn St vs Fresno, winner plays Georgia
Texas vs Mississippi St, winner plays Clemson
Florida vs NIU, winner plays Michigan
Kentucky vs Syracuse, winner plays Notre Dame
LSU vs UAB, winner plays Ohio State

Back when the game with Stanford was originally scheduled, the Cardinal were coming off a 11-3 season and had a 12-2 season before that.
Stanford, UCF Schedule 2015 & 2019 games

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8 would be perfect... only one more weekend, covers the power 5 champs, and 3 at large bids, for teams like UCF, TCU, Boise, etc.

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ummm, TCU?

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Need to join the ACC

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Nah let them replace Tennessee for a season or two. Let Tennessee rebuild and be SEC worthy again. And by the time UCF taps out and stops with the “We belong in the CFP conversation” shenanigans we can send them back to the American conference.

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So if UCF tries to schedule these teams and they don’t want to play them, what is their options?

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You saw the list of teams i showed Boise beat? Only one of them was in a bowl game, Oklahoma. The rest of them, Boise went to their place. Face the facts, if you want to be considered for the playoffs, then you're going to have to suck it up and go play at UGA, or go to Penn St, and not expect a return trip.
Boise and Fresno did it for years. Don't tell me it can't be done.
UCF has this entitled attitude that they think they are good enough to say we want a home and home and won't compromise on it. Florida offered them a 2 for 1 and they said no. You want to make money, then fine, stand pat and keep trying to get home and homes. You want to try to win a championship, suck it up and go play at Oklahoma without a return trip. You can't have both.

What does that have to do with anything that's been talked about? You are making a complete hypothetical scenario that no one knows the answer to.

One thing UCF knows nothing about is the grind of playing a SEC schedule. Pay attention to how often teams like A&M or a decent Ole Miss or Miss St team goes play LSU or UF or Alabama and loses but puts up a good fight, then goes get their arse beat the next week by Kentucky b/c they are physically worn out from the previous week.

Every year you see some SEC school starts off hot, only to finish with 3 or more losses, hell LSU has done it many times recently.
Crappy Tennessee plays @UF, UGA, MSU, @Bama, SC for one stretch of the season. You think UCF could win more than 2 of those, b/c i'd bet they can't, and even if they somehow pull off an upset and beat say UF, they could end up losing to SC after that tough stretch.