ORLANDO, Fla. -- UCF keeps winning, but it can't really win -- not with its growing chorus of critics, not with Power 5 football fans outside Orlando and probably not with the College Football Playoff selection committee.
The undefeated Knights opened at No. 12 in the committee's initial rankings -- six spots ahead of where they started last year -- and once again face nearly impossible odds to make the top four. While UCF expected as much, what it didn't expect was for the negativity directed at the program to seemingly increase. In college basketball, UCF would be Loyola-Chicago.