If the committee is tasked with factoring in injuries, and they are, it’s hard to blame them too much for leaving out FSU. The committee left FSU out because Jordan Travis is hurt. Full stop.
You want to see the 4 best teams then UGA should have been in there. Defending national champ only 1 loss in a close game. My subjective top four
Might as well just have Vegas pick the four teams. If all they are looking for is the four best teams, that seems like the most objective way to do it.
That's not what they did though - Georgia would be one of the four teams then - they would be favored against any of the teams in the top 4 by Vegas. They just happened to lose their last game.
What do you think would have happened if FSU lied about the extent of the injury and said that he would be back for the bowl season? The dr.'s can't say anything about medical status and if the player's are in fact "student athlete's" why should they have to divulge their medical status to anyone?
You want to leave out a team who scheduled 3 cupcakes, played 9 conference games and whose best wins are against #7 and #10...
Yes I give benefit of doubt to UGA for playing the SEC opponents over scUM big ten record. The point is if you add the subject nature into this narrative you can’t tell me UGA is not one of the 4 best teams in the nation and if you had to pick a team to beat any team who would u put you money on. I think UGA would get a lot of bets so would Bama
It’s a very interesting question. Not sure what the rules are around reporting injuries in the NCAA, but the massive amount of money bet on these games make injury disclosure a necessity. The nature of Travis’ injury made it impossible to think he might be back in 4 weeks.
Yep. Now the committee has to decide how good they will be with their backup who hasn’t played all year. Good luck!
Yep. That was my point. Either go all the way or base it on the records the teams achieved. There is no great answer I am just really bothered by the committee factoring in an injury. Makes no sense to me.
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Deion Sanders, who starred at Florida State in college, won't fret about CFP snub: 'I can’t be upset'
Deion Sanders, also known as "Coach Prime" these days, isn't worrying about his former Florida State Seminoles squad not making it to the College Football Playoff.
FL Sen. Rick Scott letter demands answers from CFP committee over FSU playoff snub: 'Shocking decision' | Fox News
A controversial decision by the college football playoff committee resulted in a letter from Sen. Rick Scott demanding answers on why undefeated Florida State was left out.
Senator Scott from Florida is asking the CFP committee to turn over emails and records surrounding their selection. It will be interesting on what he gets/finds out. I am not sure if they are required to turn anything over
If it is like what Deion thinks that might be a problem.
Don't believe any starter has ever opted out of a CFP game. Could be wrong, but it is a guarantee that FSU won't have the QB1. They got it right, hate the look and message it sends, but if the goal was best 4 teams, they are correct.
I wouldn’t be so sure about Texas beating UDub.
How do you know those are the 4 best teams? Two of them lost games, while FSU still one despite QB going down.
Paging Dr. Stallions
This is a huge problem with the sport right now and I fear it's only going to get worse. Gambling should not factor into what a school must or mustn't do... yet here we are.
You pretty much sum up my thoughts. Every P5 team had a chance to go undefeated when the season started, and only 3 did it. That one of those teams would be an underdog to all the teams in question shouldn’t matter. Underdogs win all the time. I believe AL was an underdog to GA on Saturday in fact. And the whole backup QB thing doesn’t hold water as far as I’m concerned. Do you think the committee would have downgraded AL if Milroe had suffered an obvious season ending injury on the last AL drive of game? Yeah right.
They came right out and openly admitted it was because of the injury to the FSU QB. They just needed any reason.
Yep, like I said — half truth at best.
I'd say it's a non truth. It is "the injury" narrative. I'd be extremely surprised if these businessmen on the committee weren't saying things like, "ya know, Bama sure brings a lot of eyeballs," and, "the Tide generate lots of ad revenue," etc.
