In case you haven’t heard by now, the UCF football team is the latest “outsider” team to throw a wrench into the National Championship picture.
They were undefeated going into the bowl season, but the Playoff Committee decided that one-loss Power Five teams would be better than an undefeated Group of Five team. In fact, the selection committee placed UCF behind squads with two or even three losses, as the Knights never finished higher than 12th in the Committee Poll.
The resultant final poll, which created the situation we’re talking about now ad nauseum, placed a three-loss Auburn (who would eventually lose to UCF in the Peach Bowl) at seventh in the nation.