Curious, how many here supported the CFP selection committee's decision to exclude undefeated FSU...
from the 2023 4-team playoff?
I did and said here that the committee was correctly following its mandate to select the 4 best teams and, in particular, when deciding between comparable teams ("at the margin", i.e., who was going to get the 4th spot) to take into consideration the unavailability of key players likely to affect a team's postseason performance. It was obvious that FSU wasn't the same team without its injured QB Jordan Travis and its presence in the playoffs would be a competitive joke. I was surprised at how many argued that it didn't matter, that FSU had earned the right to play in the playoffs as an undefeated P5 conference champion.
Now we are in the position of pointing out that the team that barely lost to Miami, in Miami, in August is not the current ND team, which we believe is on the verge of elite status, if not already there, and that it is absurd to treat the outcome of that game as determinative of which is the better team now, or even regard them as comparable teams given Miami's subsequent stubmling, losing to 2 unranked teams (by the way, the committee doesn't currently think Miami is comparable).
So, if you opposed the committee's exclusion of FSU in 2023 in light of its mandate to select the best teams for the playoffs, do you still do so?
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I didn't but laughed at them anyway. Karma a B and about 100 more might make up for '93
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The Basketball committee makes these kinds of decisions all the time.
When a key player on a team is injured, they will lower the seed, often by 2 digits.
Tough decision but as I recall, FSU got destroyed by Georgia in their bowl game.
Unfortunately under the rules at the time, it was the correct decision.
F.S.U. had earned it based on accomplishment, but the committee was clear that significant injuries and "who was the best right now" were considered.
Unfortunately for the Seminoles, they didn't have a blowout win after the injury to prove that they still belonged. I'm thinking of 2014, when Ohio State lost J.T. Barrett to injury, and had to go with Cardale Jones. The Buckeyes proceeded to win their Conference Championship game 59-0 behind Jones and made a resounding argument that they belonged. Florida State squeaked past Florida (5-7) and Louisville after the Travis injury.
The argument was basically Florida State or Alabama. It was clear they made the right call.
Wasn’t that when they only chose four teams
And did a bunch of FSU players to decide not to play they got matched up against Georgia and got annihilated, which was really really stupid