I honestly buy it, waiting over twenty days to play football when your opponent had just played one a week ago means the lower seed team hadn’t rested too long, and has a pretty big advantage. This is doubly true if the team coming in is good, which UCF apparently would be by getting to the Quarterfinals
Oh yeah, Georgia wasn’t winning against ND, bye or no. I still think the bye is an intangible factor comparable to playing the fourth team in a row in the regular season against a team that’s coming off a bye. This might just be Big XII copium from me, but the ASU Texas game wasn’t gonna go to overtime if ASU hadn’t had to wait a month
I disagree, the showing that ASU put on proved that they could go toe to toe with the big boys in the playoff last year. Only difference between ASU and Texas is that Texas had the talent to bail them out of bad coaching (see the Vanderbilt game). Texas probably wins 55 or 60 games out of 100 though, bc they were a very talented team last year