This is cherry picking stats. If you want to talk about small schools playing in BCS bowls, then let’s look at ALL of the results, not just an overrated hawaii team:

Utah was the first team from a small conference to play in a BCS bowl. They destroyed pitt 35-7 in the fiesta bowl.
Utah smashed alabama the next year in the sugar bowl, 31-17.
Boise beats Oklahoma in the fiesta bowl 43-42 in the craziest OT thriller in recent memory.
An overrated hawaii team gets blown out by a georgia team that should’ve played for the national championship.
TCU beats wisconsin 21-19 in the rose bowl.
Northern illinois gets beat by florida state in the orange bowl.

small schools were 4-2 against power five schools in the BCS bowl era. one of the reasons why the bcs was disbanded was because of this. It’s obvious the best of the non-BCS/power 5 schools can compete with the best of the power 5. they just aren’t given the opportunity to do so. Especially because power 5 schools tend to avoid playing good mid majors during the season because losing to them would destroy their BCS/playoff chances.

it’s why hawaii had such a hard time getting big schools to play them during the june jones years.

” But you have to remember their ranked 12th. They wouldn’t have made it if there was an 8 team playoff.”

they would’ve gotten in. in an 8 team playoff, it would be set for conference champs to get in, the best non-power five school and two at large bids. most likely, they would set it up so that it would be a six teams, with the top 2 teams getting byes: each P5 conference champ and the best ranked non P5 team.

” Consistency will get them in, that’s the only way a small conf school gets respect, their gonna have to repeat this year’s results next season.”

you go by results in the season, not results from past seasons. and a reputation. that’s what’s wrong with college football. alabama did not deserve to get in. there’s a very good argument that as the only undefeated team in the land, and the fact that they beat auburn in their bowl game, they deserved to be in there and the playoff system needs to expand becuase right now, it’s extremely biased to P5 schools. but no, just being a small school in and of itself doesn’t mean the team is unworthy of being in the playoff.

UCF should’ve been in there, at least over alabama.

and no, don’t be ridiculous, alpha. UCF is the best program in florida this year. University of Florida is 4-7 and fired their head coach. UCF already beat USF. FIU is 8-5. they’re not terrible but if you think a sun belt team is beating UCF, idk what you’re smoking. FAU had a really good season under lane kiffin, but they have three losses, two to navy and buffalo.

Maybe think the Stetson University Hatters are better than UCF?

And don’t be stupid with the “lol if auburn is that good then why aren’t they in the playoffs, hurr hurr!”

The playoff committee selects the teams and there’s no way based on strength of schedule or results that alabama should’ve gotten in, but they used some BS like “alabama passes the ‘eye test’ to let them in.” You can’t say that auburn is or isn’t good based on some decisions by a playoff committee. Look at their body of work. They’re an extremely solid team playing in a very tough conference.

Can UCF beat georgia and then clemson back to back? Or oklahoma and georgia back to back? that would be difficult, but not many can. UCF deserved to be in there