College Football Playoff Rankings: Hits and misses in Week 10 ranks

Entering Tuesday night it was largely understood that undefeated UCF would find themselves on the outside looking in. Even with the departure of their head coach and injuries that briefly sidelined quarterback McKenzie Milton, the Knights remain one of college football’s few undefeated teams.

Seeing them come in at No. 12  in the initial College Football Rankings is frustrating. If 20 consecutive victories (which included a dominant win over the SEC West Champion) can’t earn you a spot in the discussion what will?

There will be plenty of time to opine the unequal playing field that UCF faces. Will a Group of 5 team ever do enough in the eyes of the selection committee to earn a spot in the top four? Those largely questions can’t be answered right now.

But UCF deserves something. The Knights deserve admission of the system as it currently exists. Otherwise, they’ll be sequestered into the same vein which Boise State owned in the BCS era. They’ll have a place in history, it just won’t be at the top of the mountain.