ORLANDO, Fla. — Follow along, everyone. McKenzie Milton wants to make this as simple as possible.
Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh last month by five lousy points. Two weeks earlier, UCF beat Pitt by 31.
"You look at the [Pitt] film against us and Notre Dame," says Milton, UCF's star quarterback. "You can't tell me Notre Dame is a better team than us."
He is asked: You don't see a difference?
"Oh, I see a difference," Milton says. "We're better."
There you have it. Forget about hokey national championship marketing ploys, or a contrived idea that the American Athletic should be the sixth power conference.