Any respectable Vegas oddsmaker will tell you that UCF beating Alabama for the national championship in football last season would have been less of an upset than the University of Maryland-Baltimore County blowing out No. 1 overall seed Virginia in the NCAA Tournament a few days ago,
But the CFB Playoff Cartel and the ESPN-backed Big Media that proudly and pompously carry the torch for the exclusionary system will tell you that college football is just somehow different. In college football, we’re told, non-traditional programs such as UCF have to prove themselves over a period of years before they can even be considered for a spot in the playoff.