Man, if I were a voter for the Coaches Poll or any other, I'd be tempted to vote for UCF as the national champion. The two teams in the declared national championship game next week lost to only one team this year: Auburn. Yesterday, UCF defeated Auburn to complete a perfect season. They couldn't have done anything more this year as a team and they deserve to be called the National Champions of College Football.

Way back when the NCAA started the playoff, wasn't the purpose to give the little guys an opportunity? I may be mistaken but I thought this was a selling point for the switch.

With the current format, no way a smaller school is getting in...ever. Not unless they expand the format to 8 teams. If conference championship wasn't enough to get the Evil Empire in this year, I can't see how UCF ever gets in.

To think the Playoff was created to give more opportunity to the little guy is naive. It was created because in almost every season of the BCS, the #3 and #4 teams bitched they didn't get a chance to the play for the title, and more often than not those teams were from the Power Five.

The only way it made it better for the Group of Five is because now instead of having a loophole in the system (which the BCS had), they have a guaranteed spot in a New Year's Six Bowl. Yippee.

Really, the Playoff was created to prevent what happened in 2011-12 when LSU and Alabama played in a rematch for the title. And look what happened this year anyway, two teams from the same conference playing for the title.

I actually don't disagree with who the committee put in the Playoffs this year. Alabama didn't really beat anyone, but they also didn't surrender 55 points to Iowa and lose by three touchdowns. They got in because they are Alabama, and the committee basically said that without saying it.

Is that fair? No. But...it is what it is until the Group of Five conferences band together and actually do something about it. They hold more power than they realize.

I'm beginning to come around to the idea of expansion, but not eight. Make it six. Five power conference champions and one at-large bid. Make the #1 and #2 seeds meaningful and give them byes.

In a perfect world, every conference champ big or small would get in, but that ain't happening in the foreseeable future of this college football landscape. That would mean at least a 12-team playoff. Then everyone would holler for 16 teams, and so-on.

16 sounds good to me.

I got online to post this same statement. Regardless of the outcome of the Game next week, UCF is the Undisputed National Champion. All the coaches talk about why the 4 team format is best because it keeps the regular season important. In the important regular season, Auburn beat both contenders and of course they then lost to The University of Central Florida.

They should get a share. Auburn beat two teams in the college football championship

The reason that we have a playoff system now is because the money is much bigger. The G-5 benefits from the new playoff money wise. We get the dregs, but it’s better than before.

Actually, before the old BCS, BYU won a national championship as a non-major. How times have changed.

For what it’s worth the G-5 won 4 of 7 bowl matchups with the P-5 this year.

Also 3-1 in the New Year's Six era, with the only loss being Wisconsin over WMU 24-16 last year.

This is correct but I also think the committee would have voted them in the top 8 if there were 8 slots.

What about 12 teams, with the G5 teams ending up in a play-in situation? Set stipulations that these teams have to have at least 8 wins. If the thought is that they can’t run the table, they’re not throwing in another game.

I think Nate Silver has some good, relevant thoughts on this. He argues for a six-team or eight-team version.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/expand-the-college-f... /

The committee should be voting on the top 8 teams regardless of whether it involves a playoff berth or not.