What Teams get left out of the Playoffs?

[Cajunrunner]

It’s not that Bama isn’t worthy. It’s that they are less worthy. They have a loss, FSU does not. The ACC had a better head to head record against the SEC. FSU also played Duke when they were ranked 12th.

For anyone to say they should schedule better. They had LSU, Florida, Clemson and Miami on the schedule. They play Florida every year, so should they drop their state mandated game to pick up another P5?

They did everything they needed to do. Were ranked in the top 4 and won on the final weekend and was leap frogged by #7 & #8.

What happens if they beat UGA? The committee better hope that doesn’t happen.

This right here.

A P5 program, with one of the top tier SEC teams on their OOC schedule, went undefeated. Only three undefeated P5 teams this season, yet they’ve been left out.

And to give the reasoning that they can’t get in because their QB got injured is bull____. There’s what…70 players who travel and dress out for FBS football? What about the other 69 who busted their asses just as hard to contribute to winning every single game on their schedule?

The Playoff Committee is a fraud.

[Million$Mullet]

FSU scheduled LSU, who was considered one of the best SEC teams. Not sure what else they’re supposed to do.

Well they’re supposed to win every game they play.

[Cajunrunner]

There is always a subjective element. If Troy had went undefeated and won the conference, that would not by default mean they should be in the top 4 over a 1 loss team with a clearly better resume. That Florida state team I watched last night shouldn’t be ranked top 10, much less top 4.

Bonus, Alabama getting in infuriates LSU fans. Bonus.

1- FSU plays in a P5 conference, not a G5, and was in the Top 4 what…all season after beating LSU?

2- Being “happy” because of how the LSU fanbase feels about this sound petty and small time as hell. Sorry, not sorry. This was a horrible gesture towards the student athletes on that FSU squad by the playoff committee politicians. That’s pretty much what they are now, politicians.

[Cajunrunner]

Well they’re supposed to win every game they play.

And evidently each one by 3 TDs or more because that’s exactly what all four teams that got in did.

Wait…

[Turbine]

I think these four get in. With FSU on the outside looking in.
Bama lost a non-conference game to one of the best teams in the country. If being undefeated means more than playing the best non-conference games you can play, why would anyone schedule tough non-conference games.

The cherry picking bias of "This loss doesn't count" has been the prevailing attitude of the softball committee for years.

[Turbine]

The irony of denying a perfect season team access in a football playoff championship is thick.

Once the playoffs start ONLY the team without a loss becomes national champion.

Undefeated has always been the high bar measuring stick of a champion.

[CajunT]

The ACC was the head to head winner vs the SEC this season. FSU was 2-0 against the SEC, went undefeated even though they lost 2 QBs.

That right there tells you they are deserving to be in their. Bama isn’t all that, hell the entire SEC this season was weak. The SEC was 7-9 against the other P5 leagues.

The discussion should have always been between Texas and Bama. Because that’s the two teams that actually have to go to the 2nd block of the committees criteria.

Instead the committee just did whatever the F they wanted.

You know here is where the narrative doesn't match the facts. I understand people don't like the SEC or Alabama. I also get the frustrations with leaving out a 14-0 Champion from a P5 Conference. This process has had controversy almost every year, that is why they are expanding it to 12 next year. It should have been 12 this year, but three conferences voted against it including the idiot in charge of the ACC. No one would argue against 6 teams that deserved to be in the playoffs including Florida State and Georgia.

Here are the facts, the ACC was not a good conference this year.

1)They are ranked 5th in conference RPI behind the SEC, PAC-12, Big 10, Big 12 and ACC. They are also 5th in strength of schedule.

2) So the ACC beat 4 teams from the SEC, did they beat any of the Top 4? Georgia, Alabama, Missouri or Ole Miss? No

3) Florida State's best win was over #13 LSU and the beat #17 Louisville, that's it!
Clemson was their next best win at 8-4, who else did they beat?

09-02 LSU 8-3 (6-2)
09-09 Southern Miss 3-9 (2-6)
09-16 at Boston Coll. 6-6 (3-5)
09-23 at Clemson 8-4 (4-4)
10-07 Virginia Tech 6-6 (5-3)
10-14 Syracuse 6-6 (2-6)
10-21 Duke 7-4 (4-3)
10-28 at Wake Forest 4-8 (1-7)
11-04 at Pittsburgh 3-9 (2-6)
11-11 Miami (FL) 7-5 (3-5)
11-18 North Alabama 3-8 (0-3)
11-25 at Florida 5-7 (3-5)
12-02 Louisville 8-3 (6-2)

They met the criteria and should be in the playoffs. But in no way is that resume better than Alabama.

[R1Letterman]

2) So the ACC beat 4 teams from the SEC, did they beat any of the Top 4? Georgia, Alabama, Missouri or Ole Miss? No
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The SEC controls and manipulates the scheduling, then gets rewarded for it?

Saban has only played three true road non conference p5 games in his tenure at bama:

2010 at Duke (Duke was 3-9)
2011 at Penn state (1-4)
2023 at Texas (L)

[GeauxCajuns]

someone made a good point and i think it is probably true. bamas win over georgia got texas in the playoff. if georgia were to win, they would have put all 4 undefeated's in. so in a game neither fsu or texas participated in, they were both affected.

im fine with with bama getting in, they look like one of the best 4 teams, but i understand why florida state is ticked off.

[ZoomZoom]

Really don’t care about the CFP drama, but Alabama winning it should shut a lot of people up. Which would be fun to watch.