UCF Football: Knights unveil even more championship swag

While I don’t agree with UCF’s stance on being national champions, I have to respect their commitment.

At Saturday’s spring game, UCF Knights’ athletic director Danny White fulfilled a promise he made to the team. He promised the team a parade and a banner, and they already had a parade in January. The championship banner was revealed in all its glory at the spring game.

Sure, the national title is imaginary, but this team just doesn’t give up, so I have to give them credit for tenacity. The team went one step further and gave the players national championship rings, for crying out loud.

Again, I can respect what the team accomplished, and being undefeated is still a heck of an achievement. Here is the harsh truth, and I am sorry to all of you UCF fans out there.  Let’s just say that the CFP was perfect and objective and UCF had gotten a chance to play Alabama for all the marbles. UCF would have been flattened. Period. It would have looked like Georgia Tech’s legendary, lopsided game against Cumberland.

For those of you that don’t know your college football history, in 1916, Georgia Tech coach John Heisman led his Engineers to a 222-0 victory hate match against then-bitter rival Cumberland. Tech hadn’t adopted the moniker of the Yellow Jackets at that point.

Any of you that have read my articles before know that I don’t blindly carry the Alabama banner, and I have been known to pick on

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Nick Saban from time to time. So I am not saying this to denigrate UCF, nor am I saying it as an Alabama supporter. I am saying it because Alabama’s team is comprised of

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indefatigable Greek gods come down from Olympus to toy with us mere mortals. UCF isn’t in the same league. Heck, some NFL teams aren’t in the same league as Alabama.

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So go ahead and celebrate your fictitious national title, UCF. You’re going to need that morale when you play with the big boys.