My response to that is - if you're somewhere between 8 - 10 and you don't make it - well you weren't good enough to be in the top 7 so fuck it - you're outThey could extend the playoffs to 10 teams and there would still be fans crying foul and acting like this team and that team are victims. Can't please everyone. Life ain't fair.
But I do enjoy drinking the tears.
Yeah, I don't disagree at all. I wonder what happens with Arch Manning though. Will there be open competition if he stays at TX?
Oh forgot about him, wonder if Ewers stays he takes the NIL money somewhere else?
FSU hasn't played a single team of the caliber you named. Alabama played Texas and UGA. It beat one of the two. Washington played Oregon. It beat them twice. Texas played Alabama and beat them. And Michigan played Ohio State and beat them. All proved they could beat a top team, and all have their starting QBs. FSU doesn't and isn't remotely the same team without Travis. The Committee did the right thing and pick the four best teams. Good on them. I figured they'd take the easy way out and subject us to another crappy semi-final game.
This conveniently ignores that FSU did not look that good against either team it beat. And neither of those teams are in the same league as the top 6 non-FSU teams.
If Michigan, Washington or Texas lost their qb with 2 games to go in the season, then barely beat inferior competition and squeaked out a win in their champ game against an inferior team, they would be in the exact same position as FSU.
People used to say the same shit about being 5. Can't please everyone.
They didn't look good? 15 sacks in those last 2 games, under 200 passing yards allowed total. They didn't beat anybody? They beat LSU 45-24 (Alabama beat them 42-28). They beat Clemson (who bombed Ga Tech a team Georgia beat by 8) in OT, getting to OT on a fumble return by their DEFENSE with 31 seconds to play. They got screwed and the SEC was rewarded. But that's nothing new.
That's nice that they had a lot of sacks. They still didn't look good. They had 224 yards of offense against UF's dreadful defense and 219 yards of offense against Louisville. Without Travis, they aren't a top four team. And that's plain as day. And we'll see that proven on the field when they play UGA. If they beat UGA, I'll eat crow. If UGA beats them by 10+ points, will you eat crow?
Sure I will. Hey I understand the desire to have the best 4 teams at this time playing the CFP. Did Oregon get consideration? Ohio St.? Perhaps the fairest way to remove FSU from the equation was give it to Ohio St...(and as a Penn St. and Michigan fan you can imagine how that pains me to say) They were ranked higher than Alabama. But I know we can't have that. Take Georgia out for shitting the bed and keeping Alabama out because they were ranked #8 would have meant a CFP without an SEC team. And that's just not allowed.
Why would we give it to Ohio State? They didn't win their conference or beat a single team ranked in the top 5. Bama won their conference and beat the #1 team in the country (now #5 in the country) in the process. Bama is a better squad. The good news is we'll get to see all of this played out on the field. Bama plays Michigan, and FSU plays UGA.
The only bias here is your bias against the SEC for some reason.
No bias. Just honesty. I love SEC football. Watch it every week. No other conference could see a team make a jump like that. And btw, no need to get sarcastic. It is what it is.
