Paul Finebaum blasts College Football Playoff's transparency, suggests wild theory about FSU, UGA

Florida State missing out on the College Football Playoff has many up in arms about how we’ve gone about selecting berths in the field. While he may agree that it was right to leave the ‘Noles out in the end, it even has Paul Finebaum asking the questions when it comes to the selection committee.

Finebaum questioned the process of the committee during a segment on ‘Get Up’ on Tuesday. Regardless of where they end up, he doesn’t understand why their work, thoughts, and opinions that become the final selections for the playoff aren’t public information.

“I think it probably did (come down to Nick Saban). But the thing that irritates me, as I heard Heather (Dinich) report what she understood went down on that committee, is how big of a charade it is,” said Finebaum.

“This committee, that has the most important decision of the year in college football, is not transparent,” Finebaum continued. “What are they hiding? Why can’t we know how each individual votes on the final vote of the year? It’s absurd not to. This is America after all and we would like to know.”

Since few are privy to the committee’s thought process, Finebaum took it a step further. In his opinion, he believes Florida State was originally down at No. 6 behind Georgia at No. 5. For the sake of the Seminoles’ feelings and ACC’s pride, though, he thinks they left them at No. 5 which, in the end, has led to even more arguments.

“Since we’re not going to know, I’m going to give you what I think really happened. Heather did the reporting but I’m giving you an opinion. I think the first vote was Florida State at No. 6 behind Georgia,” said Finebaum. “They got in the room and they said, ‘Well, we don’t want to embarrass the ACC so let’s swap those.’ Had they left Georgia at No. 5, this would not be going on. It would be clear since Alabama beat Georgia.

“Instead, they acted like a committee acts. Any of us who have been on committees know how stupid those committees are.”

All anyone, especially those in Tallahassee, wants is a little transparency when it comes to the playoff. If we had it, calls like these would be easier to understand and conspiracy theories would be simpler to disprove.

However, since there isn’t any clarity, Finebaum had no problem in calling the committee into question on it.