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One reason UCF’s national title claim is actually valid (and it’s not the reason you think)

Officially, Alabama’s your consensus champ, but UCF has as much of a claim as several Power 5 teams who claim titles.

One reason UCF’s national title claim is actually valid (and it’s not the reason you think) Bcs Football Rankings Wiki

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UCF didn’t make the Playoff, yet went undefeated and beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl, giving it a transitive win over national champ Alabama. UCF declared itself national champ after beating Auburn, which is

Those who wish to recognize the Knights as the season’s only actual champion (usually because they just don’t like Bama/the SEC/ESPN, but often because they’re UCF fans, unhappy with the Playoff, or just want to watch the world burn) usually turn to

it’s time to sue the Playoff, storm ESPN’s offices, and kidnap Big Al the elephant mascot

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. There you’ll see a list of “national champion major selectors.” These are national polls, computers, historians, and other rankings that the NCAA recognizes as contributing to the selection of national champs throughout the sport’s history.

That page is followed by a list of selector No. 1s for every season in football history. The records stop listing out each season’s computer No. 1s midway through the BCS era, though several are still listed as actively recognized selectors. Since 1950, the NCAA’s also given the major polls the power to award “consensus” titles, giving them prominence over the computers.

The NCAA doesn’t award an official FBS champ, so this is as close as it comes to sorting out claims.

(I used those selectors and other metrics to come up with

So what, right? Some computer you forgot existed went rogue. Here’s the thing:

Plenty of programs claim national titles based on being No. 1 in a single selector.

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selector to have the Buckeyes No. 1, the National Football Foundation, also having Texas No. 1. Texas A&M claims 1927

based on nothing but a computer that came around decades later

at least based on a mathematical formula that was around at the time Bcs Football Rankings Wiki

, though it was still only one selector. And so on and so on.

If it’s good for the Power 5, it’s good for the Group of 5.

Alabama is your consensus national champion, according to NCAA terminology (and the results of the Playoff), but UCF has just as much official reason to claim a national title as, say, 1941’s Alabama team had.

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