My point is simply that the respective selection committees were consistent in their logic. Both take into account in their decisions re: serious injuries that change the basic makeup of a team. When the margin for error is very slim, it is impossible to argue that conference champ FSU should have been selected over conference champ Alabama when FSU did not have their most important player available to them anymore.
The narrative that it was wrong to leave out an undefeated conference champ simply because it never happened before is clutching at straws to say the least.