There is no other scenario where UCLA can safely assume a spot in the CFP otherwise. The corrupt system will look to put Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, LSU and Ole Miss in. Any SEC walk-in practice squad is more deserving than any team from a P4. You can be damned sure the pressure of the pressure to put Texas in. It’s like Harvard-Westlake lobbying to get in student #105 into Stanford every year as their argument is that kid is better than any valedictorian from a Fresno or Van Nuys public high school.