(01-10-2018 10:46 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  My favorite talking point by the CFP excuse makers who claim the G5 is not shut out of the CFP because of the Extreme emphasis on SOS is—-“Had Houston run the table in 2016, well that schedule was good enough to get in”. I’m guessing everyone spouting that excuse never bothered to look up the 2016 Houston schedule ranking. The 2016 Houston schedule was ranked #76th—-it was actually worse than the 2017 UCF SOS.

There's a critical difference: Houston 2016 had wins over two very highly ranked P5 teams, Big 12 Champ Oklahoma, and a Louisville team that was #3 and in the hunt for the playoffs when Houston beat them in mid-November.

If you have a very soft overall schedule, then the main doubt about you is "can you play with the real good teams", meaning specifically, top P5 teams. Before the playoffs, UCF had nothing like that on their resume, their best wins were extremely close, arguably lucky, wins over USF and Memphis, two G5 teams lingering around the bottom of the top 25. Their best P5 win was over a bad Maryland team.

Totally different circumstance.