[stupac2]

Remember UCF was 0-12 this season and ranked worse than a whole host of FCS teams.  NC A&T (one of the two FCS teams that North Carolina played) was ranked 145 by Sagarin; UCF was ranked 168.  Delaware (the other FCS team UNC played) was 192.  It's obviously impossible to know, but I'm not sure what our chances would have been against a 1-loss UNC without the the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends win.  Maybe we still get picked, but maybe we get passed over.  Also, there was a small risk that a non-champion 1-loss Ohio State might have jumped over us.

BC

That doesn't matter, what we're talking about are people's perceptions. The committee has said they don't count FCS wins, so it doesn't really matter that UCF turned out to be hapless.

And, again, I'm not saying dropping ND necessarily means replacing them with a terrible opponent. For our schedule, as far as the committee is concerned, ND is just another >6-win team. Replace them with someone competent and we'd be fine.

If the AD wants to keep scheduling tough OOC games, then that's fine. Drop ND and play them in September like everyone else. It's not worth screwing up our schedule so badly.

(Also, I don't see the issue with playing Big Game on Thanksgiving. Students could come back on Friday/Saturday morning every other year without them literally catching on fire.)

[stupac2]

Remember UCF was 0-12 this season and ranked worse than a whole host of FCS teams.  NC A&T (one of the two FCS teams that North Carolina played) was ranked 145 by Sagarin; UCF was ranked 168.  Delaware (the other FCS team UNC played) was 192.  It's obviously impossible to know, but I'm not sure what our chances would have been against a 1-loss UNC without the the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends win.  Maybe we still get picked, but maybe we get passed over.  Also, there was a small risk that a non-champion 1-loss Ohio State might have jumped over us.

BC

That doesn't matter, what we're talking about are people's perceptions. The committee has said they don't count FCS wins, so it doesn't really matter that UCF turned out to be hapless.

And, again, I'm not saying dropping ND necessarily means replacing them with a terrible opponent. For our schedule, as far as the committee is concerned, ND is just another >6-win team. Replace them with someone competent and we'd be fine.

If the AD wants to keep scheduling tough OOC games, then that's fine. Drop ND and play them in September like everyone else. It's not worth screwing up our schedule so badly.

(Also, I don't see the issue with playing Big Game on Thanksgiving. Students could come back on Friday/Saturday morning every other year without them literally catching on fire.)