If Georgia, Clemson and Wisconsin win

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https://twitter.com/RandyEdsall/status/937341491562807296

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https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/12/05/ucf-playoff-debate-schedule-scott-frost?utm_campaign=si-ncaafb&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_twitter_si

White is right; it seems more and more like there’s a threshold past which teams outside of the Power 5 not named Notre Dame cannot pass. Western Michigan sowed that seed last season, but its case for inclusion was weaker than UCF’s. It didn’t play a ranked team all season, and its margin of victory (24.1 points) was still a shade less than the Knights’. What UCF accomplished this year deserved consideration, and if it can’t even crack the top six, much less earn a playoff spot, then it’s hard to see how a Group of Five team ever can under these conditions. The fact that, say, Rutgers might turn around next season and do what UCF did—by the way, it won’t—and get a playoff berth is unfathomable. The line between the bottom of the Power 5 and the top of the Group of Five is finite when it should be fluid.

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Look at what happened to us after thrashing FSU. Finished 2015 at #8, I think. Where’d we start 2016? #15. Disgusting.

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Those were AP rankings, and not even the CFP, who more than likely would have put us out of the top 25. Double disgusting.

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It was also a preseason ranking and was quickly adjusted after beating OU the first week.