Central Florida didn't lose a game last year. Good for them, obviously. That's quite the accomplishment.

Central Florida did not have an opportunity to play for a national title last year—let alone win one.

During the regular season, the Golden Knights didn't even play a ranked opponent until closing out the year with juggernauts South Florida and Memphis on Nov. 24 and Dec. 2, respectively.

UCF's regular season strength of schedule, for which it was judged by the College Football Playoff committee, ranked 67th.

No matter, athletic director Danny White threw himself a parade—a lot like that kid you knew in college who'd throw himself a birthday party, then get pissed at anyone who didn't offer to buy him a shot—and declared to no one in particular that his school was the national champ.

And, not to belabor the point, but, by this logic, Auburn should claim titles for 1993 and '04, Tulane should hang a banner for '98, Utah should buy some additional jewelry for '04 and '08, TCU wins a title for '10, and, of course, Boise State should make some room on their press box for '06 and '09.

But none of them did or will lose their shit and decide, for themselves, that they are national champions in a year during which they were not awarded a national championship—despite the fact that all eight of those teams, save for maybe Tulane, were far better and more deserving than UCF.

To throw a tantrum and just start printing your own T-shirts as if you're the only program to ever win all of your games and not have the chance to play for a national championship was absurd and, quite frankly, should have been a little embarrassing in retrospect.

And, yet, fast forward less than a year later, and here we are.

The hate is real. #UCFTwitterMafia @UCF_Knightline pic.twitter.com/sRXMsP0MAT

— GoldenKnight II (@GoldenKnight_II) October 20, 2018

Thanks to a miracle, come-from-behind, one-point victory at Memphis two weeks ago, Central Florida is undefeated again. Last week, the Knights beat mighty East Carolina while Memphis lost to the 12th-best team in the SEC, Missouri, 65-33.

And, somehow, that sequence of events prompted White to cry some more about how unfair it is that his program, with its 90th-ranked strength of schedule, is somehow victim to a broken system.

Good evening, @CollegeGameDay: pic.twitter.com/GmEi8dS4AL

— Danny White (@UCFDannyWhite) October 22, 2018

Danny, on behalf of literally everyone outside of Orlando, I'd just like to take this moment to ask you very politely to stop talking.

No one cares.

And it's not because the college football world and its fans have some weird sort of ill will for Central Florida. There wasn't a secret meeting wherein we all got together and decided to keep the Golden Knights out of the playoffs at all costs. You guys just are what you are. And what you are isn't even a Chris Petersen-led Boise State or an early 2000's TCU.

Those programs played folks. Your program does not.

And, sure, you can whine some more—and I'm quite sure that you will—about how no one will play UCF. But we both know that's a half-truth and an excuse. Nothing more, nothing less.

Two of Fresno State's first three games were against Power Five opponents. Boise State went on the road to Oklahoma State. Utah State opened its season against Michigan State. Two of San Diego State's first three games were against ranked Stanford and ranked Arizona State.

All four of those programs have a couple of other things in common, too. 

They all play in the Mountain West Conference, which means they'll also face friendly fire within a football league that is much better than the American this year. And I'd take any one of the four of them to beat your squad.

The fact that your team is ranked as high it is, quite frankly, is laughable, and has everything to do with the momentum you ended last season with—much of which, admittedly, was due to your own grandstanding. So, sincerely, congrats on that. But, for the love of god, give it a rest.