Official: Michigan, UW, Texas, Alabama.
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SAw that. It was perfectDamn! Mizzou coach ended his interview pretending to get a call from Conor Stalions.
You forgot the main criteria…”the SEC must have a representative in the CFP no matter what.” The rest of the rules just exist to make that rule attainable.
Reverse Bama's and FSU's situations and it would have been "you can't put a one loss team in ahead of an undefeated one"
Yup. And they ensure this by over inflating their pre-season rankings. Texas blew the doors off LSU and beat Bama at home by 10.
Finebaum is such a smug a-hole but rightly points out that if the ACC commissioner hadn’t blocked the playoff system that would have otherwise been in effect this year, FSU would have been in.
The board requires that you have a poll with the hottest chicks of the 4 playoff teams! Just give Bob a days notice!
Yep. Consistency would be FSU over Bama. They’ve never left out a P5 champion out in favor of a P5 team with more losses and it’s ridiculous to start now. At least be consistent with what you do and not completely arbitrary.
I actually wonder how much of this decision was not just the playoff games but also the other NY6 games. Screwing over FSU keeps Louisville out making the Orange more appealing and getting in Ole Miss which is better for the bigger bowl ratings. And ESPN controls all those bowls too….
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If they are disregarding benchmarks and back to opinions of who they think the better teams are, the playoffs should be Michigan, Ohio State, Alabama and Georgia. It could easily be argued that Ohio State and Georgia are both better than and would be favorites against Washington and Texas.
You can argue that Texas not only won the Big 12, but they won the SEC one year before even joining.
I don’t get it, but that seems really astute.
It does neither. Just incredible how your glass is always half empty.
I feel for FSU. To add insult to injury, they drew Georgia in the Orange Bowl. It’ll make the CFP snub irrelevant. If you can’t beat Georgia, you can’t complain about being left out.
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If I have this figured right, if there was the 12 team playoff system this year we would have to play OSU in Columbus in round one.
That is incredible insult to injury because the real screw job was getting left out the same year you don't have to play Georgia.
Right - good enough to be ranked ahead of the one loss reigning national champs, but not one loss Bama? Suuuuuuure.
FSU wakes up to feel what it's like to be PSU for one day and I'm supposed to feel bad. I don't.
Isnt that the guy who was fined billions for fraud? all of a sudden he's a transparency guy?
I don’t get this analogy - figure skating is ‘judged’ on a fairly strict scoring criteria - the people judging them are experts. They know when a jump is perfect and how difficult each maneuver is. They don’t sit there and go - We think Kristy Yamaguchi is better than Midori Ito so we’re gonna give her the gold instead. They score performances against the same criteria. What college football is is a beauty pageant.
Here's the problem with College Football and always has been far too much like figure skating, I don't give a s^^t about the committee's opinion and what they "Think" might happen, FSU got jobbed plain and simple. This board would be losing it's mind had this been PSU getting screwed for Bama.
FCk the Tide, crooked selection Committee just made me root for Scum, who would have thunk it..
Think FSU should be in, but not sure why there is minimal questioning of the inclusion of Texas.
Texas is considered better than OU because of the results of a whole season’s worth of games.
Yet, for Texas and Bama, only the result of a single game is supposed to be considered.
Texas is considered better than OU because of the results of a whole season’s worth of games.
Yet, for Texas and Bama, only the result of a single game is supposed to be considered.
Texas was always going to be in before Bama, both had one loss and one beat the other, head to head has to matter.
Because it's an open NCAA investigation. By NCAA rules he's not allowed to talk about it. Insert your comments about how UM laughs at NCAA rules here.
Probably intentional, so that the CFP can justify their selections after UGA beats them.
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