TL;DR: The College Football Playoff committee colluded to make sure that an SEC team made it to the playoff, so undefeated Florida State University got cut, and the playoff is between Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama, with FSU and UGA as 5 and 6.
This only happened because Georgia lost to Alabama in the SEC championship game imo, but it’s still fucking horrendous that it did happen.
College football has been a corrupt mess of shit forever. I root for corruption and incompetence to reign. Let the bread and circuses die.
Sucks for FSU, but I figured with the prestige of Alabama there was no way they would be left out. At least it expands to 12 teams next year
Yeah I’m glad they are expanding to 12. They should’ve started off that way years ago.
Yep. The BCS system was so idiotic
But don't you think 12 teams is overdoing it? 8 seems like a perfect number.
Like who's #9 this year? Penn State? Who lost decisively to both Michigan and the Suckeyes. Sure, they could go on a run in a 12-team playoff, but then it would be a bit like Eli Manning's Giants taking down the 19-0 Patriots in the superbowl -- it just felt wrong.
I could live with 8. I’m a Cowboys fan so I despise that lucky 07 Giants team
I don't follow like I used to, but if it was me I leave Texas out by virtue of having both a lower quality loss and lower quality wins than Alabama and to hell with head to head as it's so random in college football to even have head to head results across the entire field happen to be a top 4 team. Fair? Not really but it never is and I'm not a fan of ambiguous popularity contest championships anyway.
You never even get the benefit of a road game and an away game for each team, much less like a best of 5. I don't think individual game records are representative of anything in particular. Of course, people want to reward winning, and I don't blame them. But you might be more accurate if you used metrics. If it's not a formula, then how do we get upset about people's votes?
Michigan
Washington.
Florida State.
Liberty.
BAM!! There’s your undefeated teams in the playoffs.
FSU should never have broken top 8 period. They don’t have the players, they don’t have the coaches, they played the weakest power 5 conference currently which is saying something since the big 12 and pac 12 have been competing for the bottom for awhile now. If anything Texas should have been dropped for OSU as well because they had one fluke win (Alabama) and the rest of the season being dogshit opponents while losing to multiple loss Oklahoma.
I think, if the selection committee's goal is to choose the best college teams in the country, they should have moved FSU down after their starting quarterback suffered his broken leg if they felt that was impactful. They didn't, and it set up a faulty choice.
I haven't watched enough of the high ranked teams to have a valid idea myself, but based on a seemingly worse loss later in the year, I might have left Texas out of the playoffs...and maintained the traditional Rose Bowl (Mich vs Wash).
With that said, a sizable portion of ranking in this game is pretty poor, and it might get a little worse until haves and have-nots are more entrenched in this new NIL era.
I don't care about sportsball of any variety, to be honest.
I'm not a party guy, and given that I can't find a sport that hasn't been corrupted by faggotry or niggerdry(or both), I gave up on the only one I cared about a decade ago, that being baseball and hockey.
I literally did a spit-take reading this. I feel the same way.
Without Travis, FSU will get demolished. The board knows it.
They'll still get their chance to be stomped on live television, just not in a game that needs to get good ratings.
what do any of those acronyms mean?
I know you don't really care, but I live and breathe College Football so:
SEC - South Eastern Conference. A league formed by teams in Florida, Alabama, Missouri etc. It's probably the strongest league because (a) they have the easiest access to black players; and (b) they have somewhat relaxed academic requirements, so the black players can be admitted to the schools.
FSU - Florida State University, the darling of early 90's college football. The play in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is less strong than the SEC.
UGA - University of Georgia. SEC school. The strongest team for the last three years.
ok that makes more sense now
It seems like just another level or form of professional play, now. People getting upset about sports picks is perennial, but I don't see what the relevance is outside of that peculiar interest.
I followed like a smooth brain to big brain curve on football. In the middle of my life, thus far, I cared. At the beginning, and now, I think watching it is a waste of time and being concerned about it a waste of energy.
I've seen enough college football (and college sports in general) to know that it could never be mistaken for professional play. The number of braindead mental mistakes and amount of sloppy play is why I just can't get into it.
And the BLM bullshit is why I can't watch pro sports any more.
That's why I said another level of it. Do you think if it were organized differently (say as minor leagues) that they'd make fewer mistakes?
The argument that I think holds water is that it wouldn't be the same at all if these weren't organized through colleges. Because you lack the built in fan base.