College Football Playoff: What chaos does UCF need to reach the Top 4?

The College Football Playoff selection committee is skeptical of UCF football just like last year. What would it take for the Knights to reach the Top 4?

UCF was once again left outside the top 10 looking in after Tuesday night’s release of the third College Football Playoff rankings of the 2018 season. Even though the Knights remain one of the select few teams still undefeated in college football this year, they’ve been unable to gain much traction.

After Week 11, they moved from No. 12 to No. 11 after Kentucky lost at Tennessee and the Knights took down Navy at home. But the committee continued to keep a half-dozen teams with one loss ahead of them as well as 8-2 LSU.

Yes, UCF has only one Power Five opponent on their schedule after Hurricane Florence forced the cancellation of the challenge against North Carolina. But, as long as the Knights win out the campaign and take their second straight American Athletic Conference title and extend their winning streak to 25 games, few will have been quite as dominant over the past two seasons as the Knights.

It would be the ultimate bout of chaos if UCF manages to make it into the College Football Playoff this year, on par with the wild shifts of 2007 or the run by BYU in 1984. What would it take to vault the Knights up the top-10 list of contenders ahead of them in the selection committee’s Top 25? Here is the blueprint for the chaos required to get Josh Heupel‘s Knights into the semifinals in 2018.