Which begs to ask, if UCF is so great, why did USF get the Big East invite and not UCF?
1) It was 10 years ago.
2) At the time, basketball was essentially the tiebreaker (I have no linkable source for this other than a good friend of mine was an assistant coach at UCF during this time period, though not for football).
So you are saying situations change. And since there isn't any realignment going on now, where schools are at now means diddly. Case closed.
I think thats what everyone is saying. Especially anyone who remembers O'Leary begging the students to call themselves "Gator/Knights" and to please come to football games when UF and FSU games don't interfere.