UCF athletics director called his team national champs after the Knights beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl and he’s got a point.
Can anyone really blame UCF athletic director Danny White on calling his team “national champions?”
No, we shouldn’t because he’s absolutely right.
In an earlier post, we basically said that it was wrong for the UCF Knights to be left out of the College Football Playoff picture. They were the only team in the Top 25 to post an undefeated season, and though they were invited to the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl as a consolation, they really should be in Pasadena or New Orleans right now to play for the right to win it all.
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So fittingly, White found the nearest camera to him and promptly declared his team “National Champions.” Per usual for Twitter, White had his supporters:
Live this guy!!!! Thank you UCF for repping us little guys!
— J Bobcat (@jwillbobcat) January 1, 2018
Regardless it’s a rigged system to keep schools like UCF out of the big game.
— BritishTrojan (@BritishTrojan) January 1, 2018
He also had his detractors:
— RTR Dos 🐘 (@JDejuan2) January 1, 2018
— Bryen Bloomfield (@bryenbloomy) January 1, 2018
Any way you put it, the Knights got robbed of a chance to play for a national title. It doesn’t matter if this team was winless just two seasons ago. It doesn’t matter that they had a schedule that worked out to their perfection.
None of that matters.
What matters is that, if you caught a UCF game this season, you can make the argument that they could go up against the likes of a Georgia, an Oklahoma, or an Alabama. Sure, they might lose against those powerhouses, but the point is that they would have at least had the change to, and the way that the playoff system in college football is set up, they will never get that chance because they don’t play in a conference like the SEC or the Big Ten.
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They play in the American Athletic Conference, which doesn’t get nearly the same respect from playoff number crunchers as the power conference.
So yes, Danny White was right to call his team national champions, because based on their record, they sure played like a champion in the 2017 season.
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