UCF clearly was a competitive team with LSU. (to me anyway). I thought they acquitted themselves well, but they don't belong with Clemson and Alabama.
And I'll say again that a lot of the results could have gone either way with another random break or turnover. Most of the matches were competitive, or close to it, and no one should claim "dominance" based on winning 27-24, or whatever.
If a conference went 8-1 and 7 of the wins were by 5 points, I'd chalk it up more to luck than anything else.