(04-02-2018 06:26 PM)McKinney Wrote:  

(04-02-2018 06:23 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Last time i checked, if you win the national title, you get the the CFP trophy. That's the trophy that all 10 FBS conferences (including UCF, btw) and ND decided would go to their official champion.

If you're old school and still think the CFP is somehow "mythical" and the polls matter, then to claim a "share" of the title, you have to get either the AP trophy or the Coach's crystal football. And if you're really old school, like pre-1980, the Good 'Ol NFF MacArthur Bowl counts for something to.

I just used google to pull up a picture of Nick Saban posing with all four of them, nobody from UCF in sight.

So alright, I'll just go ahead and laugh.

Well but hold on, the AP, Coaches, etc. all of that was systematically rolled into CFP. The Associated Press could not select UCF as the champion even if they wanted to. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they could even put UCF in the top four (because they were not a playoff team selected by the CFP committee).

Since you're wrong, I'll correct you, LOL: The AP and Coaches polls are completely independent of the CFP. They aren't required to vote for whoever wins the CFP or anything of the kind. Each could have voted UCF #1 if they wanted, regardless of the fact that UCF was not selected for the playoffs.

It's not like the old BCS, where the coaches were contractually required to vote the BCS champion as their national champion. Totally independent.