Human element kept Florida State out of CFP last year, why can't it help put South Carolina in this year?
As the hours tick down to Tuesday night’s college football rankings reveal, South Carolina’s team, their head coach, and even their director of athletics, have took to social media in some capacity to make a plea as to why the Gamecocks should make the inaugural 12-team playoff.
Show the resumes. Flash the stats. That’s all well and good. But ultimately, at this point, what will decide South Carolina’s fate Tuesday night is one thing: the human element of this all.
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One reason college football did away with rankings through computers was to help decide factors that the human element could only take into account. The human element kept a 12-0, ACC champion Florida State team out of the college football playoff last year because of “hypotheticals” with their quarterback getting hurt.
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The human element, tonight, is supposed to look into those factors. To me, that’s where South Carolina can point to the most as to why they deserve to leapfrog teams who may have beaten them, on top of what the rest of their resume also says. Anyone who saw LaNorris Sellers against Clemson and down the stretch knows how valuable he is to the Gamecocks. Not having him in the second half against LSU played a major role in why South Carolina lost that game, and well…. yeah, that too.
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If Sellers plays in the second half, we’re not sitting here having this conversation about a 10-2 Gamecock team. How is that any different from what the committee did last year to Florida State? They played the “what if” game and that’s how they decided on which four teams made the college football playoff last year. If consistency matters, Shane Beamer and South Carolina have a case to make with that, to go along with beating four ranked teams during their six-game winning streak to close the year.
