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UCF’s ‘National Championship’ coach isn’t thrilled with ‘National Championship’ talk

By Oliver VanDervoort

ATLANTA, GA - JANUARY 01: Head coach Scott Frost of the UCF Knights holds the trophy after defeating the Auburn Tigers 34-27 to win the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on January 1, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GA - JANUARY 01: Head coach Scott Frost of the UCF Knights holds the trophy after defeating the Auburn Tigers 34-27 to win the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on January 1, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) /
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Nebraska football coach Scott Frost says he wouldn’t be down for UCF’s national championship talk if he was still with the Knights.

Don’t count Nebraska football coach Scott Frost among those who thinks UCF might be going a bit far with the National Championship talk. The Knights were led by Frost to an undefeated season in 2017 that included a Peach Bowl win over Auburn but they in fact, were not the official National Champions.

Despite the fact that the NCAA crowned Alabama the champs, UCF has said they have a claim on the title because they beat a team that beat the Crimson Tide. The AAC team issued rings for their supposed national championship.

The school even put up signage in its football stadium claiming it had won a national title. All of this makes for good theater, but it’s not sitting well with everyone in the college football world.

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While Frost was the man who allowed UCF to be able to make these claims, he’s wishing they would back off a bit now that they’ve had their fun.

I completely get behind their argument,” Frost recently told USA Today. “I do think it was almost criminal how low they kept UCF in the rankings, and I think it was intentional. But at the end of the day, the playoff system is that the national champion is the team that wins the playoff.”

It makes sense that Frost would hold this opinion. For one thing, he’s now at a school that stands to benefit from a lower ranked, but undefeated team not edging out a Power 5 school.

Frost is, of course, no stranger to National Title controversy. His Cornhuskers squared off in the media with the Michigan Wolverines for the National Title in his senior season.

Back then the champ was crowned entirely by media votes. With any luck, Scott Frost will have his Nebraska football team competing for a title in the near future. When that competition comes, he’d likely rather not have to deal with question after question about the “unfairness” of the system.

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