That's exactly what Boise St. did with Nebraska. They whine and complain about scheduling but at the end of the day they refuse to do what it takes.
Agreed. I hope they don’t go full derp and pull an Auburn. If they beat two middling SEC teams in bowl games two years in a row they will be unbearable next year. So will the talk heads who want playoff expansion.
They are not a top 10 program - they have a top 10 team. There is a HUGE difference.
No, the problem is he expects P5 teams to give up a home game (revenue) just to give UCF a chance. If he wants to earn it, give up the home revenue and play away games against P5 teams - if they're capable of winning few of those, they'll start getting respect.
Big Ten teams are scared to play each other outdoors in the Big Ten title game, too.
It’s because of the behind the scenes dealings with these teams. 2-1 concept makes perfect sense.
UCF fan on Twitter is trying to whine about lack of respect. I tried reason (I know I know, it’s Twitter) but to no avail. I sincerely hope they get crushed in the bowl. I’m tired of their playing the victim card and the big bad power teams leaving them to the kids table.
No he's not. Their stadium is like 45,000 capacity. That's like asking the Cowboys to come play at Ladd Stadium.
It's what everybody else has already said. In the next 2 years when UCF goes back into mediocrity and obscurity no power 5 team wants to be holding the bag of having to pay UCF a large sum of money for a game that nobody is interested in. Sure, if UCF and Bama played this year it would be a sell out and have a ton of national buzz but it's pretty much guaranteed that this is the peak of a UCF team in terms of national attention and exposure. OTOH, when Bama schedules home and home with Texas and other national powers (Penn St a few years ago) those games are always sellouts and produce national exposure regardless of how good Texas or whoever the other team is. It basically comes down to risk from a business perspective. It's incredibly risky for a program like Alabama to schedule a home and home with UCF because that game will likely become a money pit whereas a game vs Texas (or another elite program) will almost always make money and be a net benefit to Alabama's program..
Boise actually scheduled tough games. The problem with Boise was that once the PAC 12 and Big XII denied their entrance to a P5 conference they started to act as the next ND in that they were just as important as the Big boys without being a part of a big boy conference.
Or Power 3. I think the Big 12 (AKA the University of Texas Conference) or the Pac 10 are both sliding towards irrelevancy.
