NCAA recognizes UCF's national championship in record book

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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
Everyone talks about their strength of schedule, but they can only play the teams that they face. Problem is that the P5 schools want to load their schedules with 3 built in wins and one decent ooc opponent. That doesn't leave much room for schools like UCF or Boise State. Another solution is to invite them to join the big boys. UCF would be a good fit for the ACC. Houston is a natural fit for the Big 12, and Boise is a perfect fit for the PAC 12.
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Houston found a way when Tom Herman was there (I know these are scheduled way in advance, but they are there) to play Oklahoma and Louisville twice with Lamar Jackson.

What is outside of their control is the strength of their own conference as you say, and of course conference games make up the lion's share of the schedule. I agree that the ultimate solution for them, if they want to be taken seriously, is to join a P5 conference. Ultimately, the reason P5 conference teams don't want to play good G5 teams is because the loss looks worse because they are a G5 team. If that G5 team were a P5 team, there'd be no problem with playing them. There's nothing for the G5 team to lose, and the matchup itself has a "pick and choose" type of feel to it, especially if it occurs later in the season. The G5 team, in most cases, has played a weak schedule to that point and is going to be fresher and more healthy than the P5 team.
 
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Most schools from the poll era claim NC's...even UT by retroactively claiming a NC for 1967.

If you go and look through the 1968 gameday programs you never see anything mentioned about UT winning a NC in '67.
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
Everyone talks about their strength of schedule, but they can only play the teams that they face. Problem is that the P5 schools want to load their schedules with 3 built in wins and one decent ooc opponent. That doesn't leave much room for schools like UCF or Boise State. Another solution is to invite them to join the big boys. UCF would be a good fit for the ACC. Houston is a natural fit for the Big 12, and Boise is a perfect fit for the PAC 12.
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I think that was there choice to stop scheduling P5 schools. UCF played Michigan in 2016 and got blown out 51-14. UCF also recently played South Carolina, Stanford, and Missouri and those games were blow outs as well.
 
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At least UCF won their division and conference unlike the real “National Champions”. Alabama wasn’t even champions among a group of 7 teams but they’re champions of the nation? Yeah okay
 
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Good for UCF. In a few years people won't even remember
 
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It's BS, if you can be the National Champion because you beat a team that beat a team then there are lots of teams that "could" claim conference championships or Natty's in the future. Not that any team worth their salt would claim something that they didnt actually win, but it is a stupid principle. If one were so inclined, they could draw a long winding path to show that they are something that they arent. There is no such thing as "identifying" as a National Champion.
 
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Mtnvol80 said:
Why would bammers be pissed? They have the real trophy in the case
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Don't you know that bammers think they win every NC, every year, or was just cheated out of it.
Ask some of them. Even in their down years they had the best team. They can't grasp the concept that any other team can ever claim a NC. Someone else claiming or winning a NC is the surest way to piss off a bammer.
 
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