What the fuck else can they do other than win all their games?
Nothing. They don't deserve to get in the playoffs. Sorry that your soft as hell schedule keeps you out but when you play, what, the 70th hardest schedule? Sorry. You are not playoff material even in an 8 team format.
So what about ND and Clemson's SOS? They weren't much better than UCF's
With a regular seasons worth of 2018 data, lets check out what Rsum S&P+ can tell us. Lets look at Clemson, the No. 2 team in both S&P+ and the CFP rankings, as an example. Clemson finished the regular season 13-0, challenged only a couple of times and winning its games by an average margin of 31.7 points (30.1 with a 50-point cap on each game).
Have the Tigers played a rigorous schedule? Goodness, no. If the average top-five team by which, I mean literally the average of Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Michigan, and Oklahoma, the top five teams per S&P+ played Clemsons 13 opponents a countless number of times, it would have won about 90 percent of those games.
Thats a strength of schedule that ranks 76th, not amazing but certainly harder than that of any of the other unbeatens.
SOS rankings for college footballs unbeaten teams: 17. Alabama (0.834) 61. Notre Dame (0.888) 76. Clemson (0.901) 83. UCF (0.907)
Clemsons schedule was closer in competition level to UCFs than Alabamas, and by quite a bit. And it was worse than Notre Dames.
I have NO FUCKING ISSUE with Clemson not making it. I think Ive made that clear.