How is ucf resume better than ND?? 0 teams that ucf has beat has a winning record. ND beating Michigan seals the deal
So a week 1 win seals the deal, and then we here the pundits say to ignore Texas’s loss To Maryland....because it was week one. So which argument is it?
BTW, Temple was 5-3 before we played them, and if that QB had played in the first two games I surely think they would have won them and been 7-1 instead of 5-3, but it is still a winning record. We have games left against two teams that are likely to have 1-2 losses when we play, then assuming we play Houston they will probably be 11-1. So by the end of the season (including conference championship)we are probably going to play 4 teams with winning records, and 3 teams with10 wins.
Notre Dame hasn’t lost so they deserve to be where they are at. Like us, they can’t help it that a bunch of teams that are on there schedule happen to be having poor seasons. If you’re going to play the “eye test” card for this particular argument, At the same time you gotta question the optics of notre Dame winning a home game against Ball State 24-16, a home game against Vandy 22-17, and a home game against Pitt 19-14. We smoked Pitt 45-14. The other ranked team Pitt has played is Penn State and they lost 51-6.
Michigan will certainly have a winning record and I would think 10 wins
Ball State is 3-7; they will finish with losing record.
Vandy is 4-5 and will finish with a losing record.
Wake is 4-4, we’ll see if they finish with a winning record...probably not.
Stanford is 5-3 and will likely finish with a winning record.
VaTech is 4-3 but it is unknown if they finish with a winning record.
Pitt is 4-4 but it is unknown if they finish with a winning record.
Navy is 2-6.
Northwestern is 5-3 and will likely finish 7-5 or 8-4.
FSU is 4-4 but it is unknown if they finish with a winning record.
Syracuse is 6-2 and will finish with a winning record.
USC is 4-4 but it is unknown if they finish with a winning record.
So they may end up playing more winning teams than us, or may not. They’re likely to only play one team with ten wins, while we’re likely to play three. This is why you have to wait until the end of the season to really asses a teams record, and who they have played and beaten. Arguing before that is just opinion.
I’d also argue things like we’ve had to put in place an entire new staff top to bottom, as well as implement new offensive and defensive schemes. They get a lot more money, and recruits (on paper) so they should be better than they are. Home games against Ball State, Vandy, and Pitt should have been blowouts.
In the end it doesn’t matter because unless our OOC schedule consists of @Bama, @Clemson, @LSU, and @Notre Dame the pundits just say we don’t play a hard enough schedule....even though the likelihood of any of those teams playing a home and home with us is 0%.
