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UCF QB McKenzie Milton Goes Off on Notre Dame: 'Can't Tell Me They're Better'
Follow along, everyone. McKenzie Milton wants to make this as simple as possible.
Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh in October by five lousy points. Two weeks earlier, UCF beat Pitt by 31.
"You look at the [Pitt] film against us and Notre Dame," says Milton, UCF's star quarterback. "You can't tell me Notre Dame is a better team than us."
He is asked: You don't see a difference?
"Oh, I see a difference," Milton says. "We're better."
There you have it. Forget about hokey national championship marketing ploys or a contrived idea that the American Athletic should be the sixth power conference.
This is about the eye test, the very thing the College Football Playoff selection committee uses to determine the four teams for its annual show that produces the sport's national champion.
It's not about conference championships or good wins versus bad losses or any other "metric" or "entry point"—the big-boy words the committee uses to make you think they're doing heavy lifting behind those closed doors. It's about sitting in front of a television in a posh hotel in suburban Dallas and voting on the eye test.
Only the notion of that test stops at the doorstep of UCF's growing monster of a program.
Two seasons, 22 straight wins, zero CFP juice.
Notre Dame is No. 3 in the CFP poll and two wins over Syracuse and USC from reaching the playoff. UCF is No. 11 and light-years from making it.
No matter what the game film shows.
Follow along, everyone. McKenzie Milton wants to make this as simple as possible.
Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh in October by five lousy points. Two weeks earlier, UCF beat Pitt by 31.
"You look at the [Pitt] film against us and Notre Dame," says Milton, UCF's star quarterback. "You can't tell me Notre Dame is a better team than us."
He is asked: You don't see a difference?
"Oh, I see a difference," Milton says. "We're better."
There you have it. Forget about hokey national championship marketing ploys or a contrived idea that the American Athletic should be the sixth power conference.
This is about the eye test, the very thing the College Football Playoff selection committee uses to determine the four teams for its annual show that produces the sport's national champion.
It's not about conference championships or good wins versus bad losses or any other "metric" or "entry point"—the big-boy words the committee uses to make you think they're doing heavy lifting behind those closed doors. It's about sitting in front of a television in a posh hotel in suburban Dallas and voting on the eye test.
Only the notion of that test stops at the doorstep of UCF's growing monster of a program.
Two seasons, 22 straight wins, zero CFP juice.
Notre Dame is No. 3 in the CFP poll and two wins over Syracuse and USC from reaching the playoff. UCF is No. 11 and light-years from making it.
No matter what the game film shows.
