“A team that could play with anyone”? No they weren’t. They had an incredibly easy schedule and barely beat a severely depleted Auburn team in the bowl game. They won by outscoring people because they had several fast WRs and a wide open Offense while all of the powder puff opponents they faced didn’t have the speed to keep up with those WRs.
Had ucf played a big boy schedule in 2017, they would have been exposed.
Lots of folks seem to disagree with you.
The Auburn team UCF defeated was ranked 7th in the nation when they played UCF and had given eventual national champion Alabama its only defeat that year. UCF was ranked #6 in the nation in the final 2017 AP poll. Auburn #10.
Why do you still care? It was 5 years ago.