The NCAA has never awarded a college football champion, so the consensus here is that anyone can claim a championship for any reason?

I guess that’s the end of defending 1984 so vigorously.

Besides, there was only one ranking that is even kind of widely recognized that had UCF #1. Unless you want to stretch to individual writers and bloggers, almost no official ranking had UCF #1.

I guess all BYU needs to do is schedule a bunch of patsies, go undefeated 8 years out of 10, and raise a bunch of banners.