Clear Logic

The University of Central Florida (UCF) went undefeated (13-0) – no challenger in all the land was able to defeat them. Furthermore, one of the 13 in the left column for UCF was Auburn. Auburn triumphed over both Georgia and Alabama – the two participants in the College Football Playoff Championship game – during the regular season. The logic is clear. Therefore, it is with great excitement that we at jasathletics.blogspot.com bestow upon UCF the 2017-2018 jasathletics College Football National Championship. 

This marks the first time since the 2014-2015 college football season that jasathletics has deviated from “the establishment’s” college football national champion and it is the sixth time in twelve years that such a discontinuity has presented itself. UCF showed resilience throughout the season. From a hurricane interrupted September to a final three games that each pushed them to the brink of defeat. All three saw them ultimately secure a seven-point victory over a team that tallied ten wins by season’s end. Congratulations UCF! An undefeated national championship season is no easy feat. I applaud UCF for paying its coaches their national championship bonuses and for their plans to hold a championship parade and hang a championship banner too. They have definitely earned it!

As an aside, congratulations to former UCF coach Scott Frost for taking the next step in his career by going back to his alma mater Nebraska. I have a special connection with Scott Frost as I first became interested in college football while watching him lead Tom Osborne’s option attack all the way to a shared national title with Michigan in the 1997-1998 college football season. A season that Nebraska capped by dismantling Peyton Manning and Tennessee 42 to 17 in the Orange Bowl. I hope that Frost’s success on the sideline at Nebraska is equal to his success between the lines there. The Big Ten will be better if Nebraska returns to national prominence.