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.
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.