Lol, do those teams even matter? GT has beaten both those teams the last time they played lol.
Yet ... Miami keeps getting ranked in the pre-season AP Top 25 ... coincidentally not this year. But now Miami will be ranked ... for now. That said ...
Miami has not finished in the AP Top 10 in 17 years, while UCF has finished in the Top 10 twice (2) in the last 7 ('13 and '17, not including #11 after '18). But if you ask anyone outside of Florida, they'll think Miami has done more in the the past decade, in utter ignorance. Luckily inside of Florida, UCF overtook Miami as the #3 fanbase a decade ago, and Miami's own athletics even admitted UCF wsa #3 by '15.
In fact, Miami has only finished AP Top 25 twice (2) in the past decade, while UCF finished five (5) -- yet 5 -- half the past decade. But yet, yeah ... UCF, who has done a BCS game again a #5/#6 Big XII Champion (the last Big XII UCF has ever played), in addition to the NY6 game against the #6/#7 SEC West Champion everyone knows, and now everyone realizes why UCF
'made a big deal' the 2nd time.
UCF being the youngest NCAA to ever win a BCS game, or a NY6 game, and UCF has done both. And it's not like UCF had to pull out a last second win against a not-so-highly ranked 'Power' team. In fact, in the 120 minutes total in those two (2) games, UCF trailed only ten (10) -- yet, <<10% -- of the game. In the BCS game, UCF never tailed, and led by 7-17 points nearly all the game. And NY6 game, every saw that.
In fact, in the BCS game, UCF was expected to lose by 17 and essentially won by 17 (sans a last second, garbage TD), biggest point swing and upset in BCS history. And that year UCF played no less than three (3) AP Top 10 -- not 25, but 10 -- teams, beat two (2) and lost by 3 whole points to the final AP#4 team that year. That's a tougher schedule that almost any other P5 team outside of the SEC conference.
And for the NY6 year, UCF won no less than four (4) games against AP Top 25 ranked teams, while going undefeated with at least 13 wins. That had only happened ten (10) times, by eight (8) different teams, in the AP era (1936+), before.
Which is why the AAC, if the BCS system was still around, would
're-qualify' as an
'automatic qualifier' (AQ), which the Big East 'lost.' How? The AAC had more teams finish AP Top 25, and even three-times (3x) as many teams finish AP Top 10, in its first 5 years, than the Big East did in its last 5. Which brings us back to Miami ...
Miami hasn't been relevant since they were Big East (2003). And the Big East had been junk since 2005 ... until they sold the name and basketball records to the Catholic-7 for 2013+. And now the new name of the Big East, the AAC -- yes, the Big East is an expansion conference, and the AAC is the Big East -- is better than the old Big East, and has a SoS that challenges the PAC-12, ACC and even the Big XII year-in, year-out.
Which is why AAC teams are finishing ranked, again and again. And if they are
'allowed' into a NY6 game against a
'Power' Champion or runner-up, they're going to win it against a top 10 more often than not. And that's scary for P5 fanboys to realize ...
The AAC is far better than its prior incarnation, the Big East, unless one goes back to 2003 or earlier ... the very last time Miami was actually relevant, 17 years ago.