I spent much of the last week and this past weekend laughing at all the experts who seem to take their jobs way too seriously.

It all started with Central Florida deciding it was going to call itself the national champion since it was the only undefeated team this season.

While those so-called experts were falling all over themselves trying to put Central Florida in its place, I was actually shaking my head in agreement as I have done in previous years when the two teams that committees and computers decided were worthy of playing for the championship were preparing to slug it out while arguably the best team was left out of the equation.

Would Central Florida beat Georgia or Alabama? Who really knows since they were not given the opportunity to the College Football Playoffs committee to do so?

Remember when little Boise State had no business playing Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl?

Problem was, nobody told the Broncos they did not belong on the same field at the Sooners and defeated Oklahoma 43-42 to finish the year 12-0.

They should have been declared national champions too. But instead, we were in the Bowl Championship Series era and LSU defeated Ohio State to claim the championship. The Tigers were just 11-2 that season and defeated defending national champion Ohio State 38-24 in the BCS title game.

There are of course other examples, including the 2004-05 season that ended with five undefeated teams — Auburn, Utah, Boise State, USC and Oklahoma.

Boise State was completely left out of the BCS, while a two-loss Michigan team played a one-loss Texas team in the Rose Bowl.

Who really cares if UCF declares itself national champion, has a banner made and displayed on its campus and hosts a parade?

Paul Finebaum, who I have little respect for as he is an SEC mouthpiece at best, said that the Knights are cheapening the winner of the Georgia-Alabama game by doing so.

I bet if you asked every player on the Bulldogs and Crimson Tide rosters, as well as their coaches, they could care less what UCF does.

As that flare-up died down and the NFC Wild Card weekend moved into the top slot on the sports talk shows, I was amazed at how critical these people are of the players.

Nobody on the Jacksonville Jaguars cares that quarterback Blake Bortles did not play well, because when it mattered he got the job done and they move on.

Now, if they want to take him apart this week in previewing Jacksonville’s divisional round match up with Pittsburgh, I am fine with that.

Instead of ripping apart Bortles, they should have been focusing on the Jaguars’ defense, which played outstanding and completely shut down the Buffalo Bills’ offense.

It has come to a point where announcers, commentators and analysts spend all their time dwelling on the negative instead of looking at the things that these teams did correctly to win their games.

I am sure that will never change because we now live in a society that dwells on the negative instead of the positive.

I am pretty sure if they were positive 90 percent of the time that their ratings would tank and they would be forced into beating up these teams and players.

Scott Novak is sports editor for Leader Publications. He can be reached at scott.novak@leaderpub.com.