ORLANDO — Whatever you believe about UCF, Thursday night confirmed it.
If you think the College Football Playoff system jobbed the Knights last year and will job them again if they go undefeated for a second consecutive season, then you watched their 21st consecutive win and got preemptively mad for Tuesday—when UCF will appear nowhere near the top four of the selection committee’s rankings.
If you think UCF is propped up by a weak schedule and would be merely mediocre against a Power Five conference schedule, then you probably watched Temple rack up 670 yards in a 52–40 Knights win and did some extrapolating about how that would work out against the offenses from Syracuse or Missouri or Purdue.