With the College Football Playoff era offering so few surprises among the field of four, one of the most entertaining subplots each year has been watching teams from the largely forgotten “Group of Five” conferences fight for one spot in the sport’s six crowned bowl games.
Two years ago, Central Florida crashed the party to a level unseen since Boise State upset Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. The Knights, playing an exciting brand of football that launched Scott Frost to the Nebraska job after the season, went wire to wire and knocked off Auburn in the Peach Bowl.