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Every media member all week said if Florida state won, they were in. As yesterday played out and they realized the ramifications of that assertion, they back peddled so fast and now there’s no way? Michigans offense looked like dog poop yesterday too. Should we leave them out and put in Georgia?
At the end of the day, the committee is supposed to use objective criteria. Leaving Florida state out of the playoff would mean they made that decision solely on opinion. Did we all forget bama needed a miracle to beat auburn last week? That’s the “better” team? Do the right thing. Tell the sec to go pound sand and enjoy their bowl games like every other conference has done in previous years.
At the end of the day, the committee is supposed to use objective criteria. Leaving Florida state out of the playoff would mean they made that decision solely on opinion. Did we all forget bama needed a miracle to beat auburn last week? That’s the “better” team? Do the right thing. Tell the sec to go pound sand and enjoy their bowl games like every other conference has done in previous years.
every undefeated P5 champion has made the playoff. The system isn’t perfect but it at least maintains some integrity so long as that remains true.
While I think that's likely to happen, the committee has a problem:
Texas went TO Tuscaloosa (not in Austin, not at a neutral site) and handed Alabama their ass. It wasn't on a fluke play, there wasn't some weird weather.
Texas put up more than 450 yards of offense and won by 2 scores.
That's going to be hard for the committee to ignore.
FSU beat a Louisville team that beat Notre Dame and has been in the top 20 most of the year. They also beat fairly good Clemson, LSU, and Duke teams convincingly. They deserve to be in. Give their freshman QB extra practice time and who knows. Ohio St won in 2014 with a 3rd string QB.
In my opinion the SEC was down this year compared to past years and Alabama did get extremely lucky against Auburn (really a blown defensive alignment since they should have have more DBs covering everything in the end zone).
In my opinion Alabama is out. They lost to Texas at home.
I’ll go the other way around, I’ll say Alabama gets in and Texas is left out, simply because the beat the number one team last and Texas beat bama earlier in the season. The ole saying what have you done lately, plus it will create a instant hated rivalry. One last point espn won’t allow a big 12 team take a place for the sec
“Best 4 teams” is so subjective and complete bs. Oregon was a 9.5 point favorite and “the better team” vs Washington…right up until kickoff. The results on the field have to matter and subjective “better team” is worthless. Otherwise, why play the games? Have we not learned that who we think the best teams are, aren’t always the best?
A miracle of all miracles that makes me question how great the SEC is top to bottom. It took a lot of pure stupidity by both the coaches and players of Auburn to pull that off.
College hockey does it best with the PairWise system. Something similar should be adopted in the other sports. College hockey takes the the conference champions and then the highest remaining teams in the PairWise standings to fill out the 16-team field. Based on PairWise, those 16 teams are placed into the 1 through 4 seed lines. The committee them only assigns those teams to four regionals to best avoid rematches and don't adjust the seeding.
But, you know, $$$.
Not my words but someone who has the vote.
Will the committee choose the four best ... or most deserving? "It is best," CFP executive director Bill Hancock said Tuesday. "Most deserving is not anything in the committee's lexicon. They are to rank the best teams in order, and that's what they do. Just keep that word in mind: best teams."
They can say whatever they want. But that’s not what they do or ever have done. There’s not a team that will make the playoff anyone on that committee would take in a single game neutral site matchup with Georgia on Dec 31st. And Georgia will not make the playoff. Again, I know what he said. But it’s simply not true.
1) Washington
2) Michigan
3) Texas
4) Florida St
Th SEC can go suck a fat one.
2) Michigan
3) Texas
4) Florida St
Th SEC can go suck a fat one.
If that happens, then everyone on the playoff committee should be fired. Head to head wins count more than "what have you done lately".
Texas isn’t that big,they could bully the swc and big 12 but they won’t be able to in the sec
Nah. The SEC is getting hosed this year, and personally couldn’t be happier about it. This is gonna be the best CFP playoff yet, because of it.
GA and Bama are arguably the two most talented teams in college football and they’re gonna cancel themselves out…
The SEC looked underwhelming compared to what it's been in the past. The best evidence for this is the success of Missouri. Missouri didn't suddenly become some juggernaut, the rest of the SEC has fallen off.
No, Mizzou is paying players. They have three of the top 60 valuations.
This is an example of a school comparable to our spending power that’s spending, and it’s making a difference. In the SEC. Thanks for inadvertently proving my point.
Bama and UGA are still UNDOUBTEDLY top 4-5 teams, just in terms of raw talent. Possibly the top 2. Missouri has MADE THEMSELVES competitive by BUYING ATHLETES. And they only bought a few.
Which would make Florida State's win over LSU even more impressive since LSU beat a top 10 rated Missouri.
I don't see how they can justify Bama either. Even though I THINK Bama may be the better team NOW. When they played Texas was clearly the better of the two. Not sure it's even debatable.
Holla
That's what it SHOULD be but it won't. If that's the case then why play the schedule. The losses don't matter as long as they THINK u are better.
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the committee got it right. those are the four best teams today. no one can make a case that 3rd string qb fsu is better than bama. come on.
Exactly. It's about the whole season not "what have you done lately".
I'll just say this: If an undefeated Nebraska team were ever left out of the CFP, under any circumstances, I would go ballistic.
Missouri was very good this year, and has one of the very best RBs in the country.
LSU has a win over Missouri and Florida State crushed LSU with ease. Florida State would do just fine playing an SEC schedule.
Underdogs will win here and there, but we’re not in the same sentence as them, other than we both sucked a few short years ago. They chose a different strategy. Wisely.
