Sorry College Football Playoff Committee, But You Got It Wrong.
Florida State, despite being the number 4 team in nation, is left out of the College Football Playoff.
Dear College Football Playoff Committee and The National Collegiate Athletic Association,
What? Is this some kind of joke to you? Florida State was number 4 this weekend prior to the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship game and they won their game decisively. Yet again, because you’re looking at the almighty dollar, you decide to listen to the Southeastern Conference’s commissioner’s belief of “leaving out an SEC would be almost criminal.” No, in this case? Not a chance.
Like many other college football fans would’ve been so thrilled if an SEC team was left out. I would’ve been so happy.
Florida State was 13 – 0! Read it again. 13 – 0! ZERO LOSSES means they didn’t lose to any competition this year. I am not a Florida State Seminole fan at all. I personally hate the team but I do believe that they should be in the College Football Playoff. 4-0 against ranked opponents this year and they were DECISIVE VICTORIES.
This should be a strong message to CFP that the tournament should expand from 4 to 8 teams or that they should maybe take a page from the Football Championship Subdivision and do a 24-team tournament.
Yes, I understand that Alabama beat the #1 team in the nation, that was on a 29-game winning streak, the defending national champion (for which there will be a new champion) Georgia Bulldogs. But they BARELY BEAT Auburn! It took a miracle 4th and Goal at the Auburn 31 throw from Jalen Milroe to win the game for Crimson Tide. So that counts as a quality win? Not really. Quality wins are decisive wins, not wins when you play flat for the majority of the game. Alabama had a key loss to the number 3 seed, Texas!
Florida State’s Athletic Director sent this message:
This is a travesty on all levels. I think it is time to abandon the 4 team playoff and expand it to 8 or 16 teams, like right now. The CFP committee did extreme damage and I do sympathize with the Seminole faithful. Florida State got robbed. The CFP committee committed themselves and sold their souls to the SEC and the devil because the SEC is more a moneymaker than the ACC.
