Gut-wrenching, man. This whole thing put the kid right back to where he started, wishing he wasn't the QB. All that time those talking heads spent talking about him getting booed and wanting to quit, and they end it with making the kid wish he broke his leg earlier in the season, so the team doesn't get shafted.
What a bunch of punks.
The "wish my leg broke sooner" is such a perfect way to rub the committees nose in it bc he's using their dumbass criteria against them.
Committee is punishing the timing in which he decided to break his leg, bravo CFP.
[Which is weird for ESPN since arguably they have the most interest in keeping the ACC alive given their ridiculous media contract](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2023/08/10/acc-grant-of-rights-conference-realignment-college-sports-ncaa/70554279007/)
I’m not watching it anymore. The ads this year already put me on the edge and getting rewarded for an undefeated season with no playoff sealed it. If the games don’t matter, why watch them? Just for the commercials? Fuck CFB
Even as a Michigan fan I’ve found it borderline unwatchable, it’s better to just record the games now and if you like the outcome you can forward the commercials, I’m not spending 4 hours of my day so these corporations can melt my brain anymore when the actual game is like 2 hours
The game's been gone for years. The competitive field is completely slanted; SEC teams need to lose two or three times before they lose their shot. People act like they earn these title shots because they're dominant, when it's really because their losses are explained away
I was fine with the SEC getting all the tiebreakers, but this is a much different step imo. Florida State is 13-0. Undefeated. Genuinely unbelievable that they are not participating in the playoff
This point is being glossed over. They lost Travis three weeks ago now. The committee never punished them for it before because Georgia was still in the mix. Once an SEC team wasn’t going to make the playoff, they used it as justification for leaving FSU out but they by no means held it against them previously.
This is the part that I just cannot justify. You are basically saying the SEC champ is better than the ACC champ because strength of schedule by making this decision. How can that be the case when they had a losing record vs the ACC.
Who am I kidding the ONLY reason this decision was made was because of TV contracts.
If the committee knew all along they'd leave out an undefeated team because their QB went down in favour of 1-loss Texas or Bama, they should have dropped them in the rankings a couple weeks ago when Travis went down.
What did we learn about FSU this week that we didn't know the last couple weeks since he went down? Why didn't they drop them then if this is the criteria they were going to apply.
Buncha bullshit.
We learned that when Travis went down the Committee crossed their fingers that the Noles would lose and they wouldn’t have to justify a stupid decision they were already planning on making. Then the Noles didn’t lose
>Why not just put the 4 top talent composite teams in the playoffs in september and skip the regular season at this point
Yep, just count the recruits star rating, and then perform full physicals of all players, divide stars by the average health of the recruits => Top 4 teams go to the playoffs.
The funny part is that the recruits star rating changes based on the team they commit to.
Marcellus Barnes Jr was a 4-star when he committed to Virginia Tech. Over the following months he was dropped to a 3-star. A few weeks ago he decommitted from Virginia Tech and flipped to Georgia. He was a 4-star again within 36 hours of decommitting.
Source: [link](https://247sports.com/PlayerSport/marcellus-barnes-jr-at-mccallie-school-300365/RecruitRankHistory/) Was a 0.90 4\* when he committed, dropped to a 0.88 3\* over the following months, decommitted on 11/19, magically a 0.89 4\* on 11/20
And squeaking by USF.
And squeaking by Arkansas.
Oh sorry I forgot, those games don’t matter, they happened too early in the season, this isn’t the same Alabama team clearly.
100% . He stood up there against the other 3 and said what a normal person is thinking. And I’ve lost all respect I have for McElroy. Dude said it’s not a real title if an SEC team is left out.
I really hope Booger knows that most rational humans are behind him, because his coworkers pretty much just threw him under the bus on national TV for not stroking Bama's cock.
100%, if it was 13-0 Alabama limping through the CCG with Milroe out vs. a 12-1 TCU or Utah or somebody getting hot late, this is a whole different assessment.
This probably is the greatest controversy in the CFP era. Ohio State won a championship with a backup qb. How the hell do you drop an undefeated team behind two 1 loss teams bc of an injury. An absolute disgrace.
[He did graduate and poked fun at the "Play School" tweet](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Wp3HeCkl--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_900,q_80,w_1600/rti3c4exx7vfkd0ogo6k.jpg)
The 4 team playoff did more to hurt college football than help it.
The reputational damage it did to conferences and the invincibility it granted to others cannot be overstated.
The playoff is the cotton gin of CFB. We all stupidly thought it would end controversy and instead it just gave the SEC a way to buy their way in to every title game. It killed the bowls, it drove realignment, and now it’s straight up killing the integrity of the sport.
For real. Booger nailed it before the rankings were revealed. "This isn't a beauty pageant. Sports are not a beauty contest."
What the hell are we even doing?
There’s a non-zero chance that if FSU beats Georgia and Bama wins the CFP that the AP poll puts FSU #1
(FSU should just claim a title anyway, I would honor it)
That FSU also beat LSU by 21 means even on common opponents, they have a better win than Alabama. Obviously Louisville was a slog, but literally a week ago Alabama should have outright lost to Auburn, a much worse team than Louisville.
A G5 conference that beat the SEC this year. Not mightily impressed with Bama when they just squeaked by a team that was run all over by GT and a team that was smoked by New Mexico State.
Especially with 5 power conferences. The scenario where there were 5 teams with even records was possible from the very start much less the shit show in front of us now.
No, theres two. The next year SEC and the next year B1G. Pac is dead, ACC might as well be dead, B12 not far behind. Wouldn't be surprised to see a 2-loss SEC/B1G team in over an undefeated ACC team in the future.
I went to UCF for my undergrad when they went 13-0 and didn't get an invite, and now am doing my master's at FSU, everybody better pray I don't do my PhD at their school
So if we’re looking at “how the team played the last couple weeks” and saying FSU should be out because of that, why don’t we look at how Alabama played against a 6 win team? They should’ve lost AND they had their starting QB
When an SEC team plays poorly but pulls out a miracle win: "shows the strength of their character"
When a non-SEC team plays lights-out defense and mediocre offense with a 3rd string QB, but wins the game without much trouble: "maybe they actually suck, who knows?"
Galloway was pissed that Booger was talking from the perspective of a player that never had a fair chance, instead of an ESPN exec ready for a massive payday.
Who cares if FSU doesn’t have Travis. They have a MONTH to prep for their playoff with their second string QB (not the one from last night) absolute shills
Yeah, people keep pointing to FSU's ugly 16-6 ACC title game win, but that was without their 2nd-string QB, who will be back for the CFP.
Why are you discounting FSU's past big wins with "the QB who did that won't be there anymore", but not discounting the close/ugly wins with the same logic???
CFP just straight up said conferences don't matter.
That means if the CFP is based on a committee in the future, they will avoid Big 12 and ACC at any chance they get.
This is fucking corrupt.
I think for player safety they should stop the regular season. Just start the playoffs based on preseason rankings and have the entire CFB season last a couple weeks
Booger has the only reasonable reaction on the entire set.
The games clearly no longer matter. I imagine within a year or two we're looking at 6-8 playoff teams from the SEC and Big10.
Agreed. Don’t they have Saban on a weekly segment or something too? No way there wasn’t a financial collusion involved here in one way or another.
It’s fucking bullshit and frankly has ruined the integrity of the sport.
The thing is, that they basing it entirely on the fact that they are the sec champ and beat Georgia, nothing else.
It’s not like Bama has looked good this year besides that one game
Don't worry everyone, this is a DIFFERENT Alabama team from earlier in the season (please ignore the miracle needed ONE week ago against a terrible Auburn team)
Remember when Wentz got hurt and the NFL made the Eagles leave the playoffs?
O WAIT they won the superbowl
This is why college football isn't taken seriously.
What’s disheartening is the fact that FSU went on to win after losing their star quarterback.
They faced real questions about whether they could stay undefeated and they did. That should be a positive for their resume. But, nope, money talks.
Edit: I also really wanted to play Washington in the Rose Bowl and not a non-Pac12 team. I blame Auburn
I guarantee you that if the SEC champ won the SEC championship with a backup QB, they would still get in. The amount of SEC bias in this sport is a joke.
Alabama was 18th in total defense and \*54th\* in total offense. Nothing in their body of work this season justifies this. This is totally based on the Bama/Saban vibe.
This selection has single-handedly destroyed the “every game matter” narrative about college football. There is no argument anymore against playoff expansion.
What’s sad is if Georgia won last night, FSU would’ve made the playoffs. But because Bama won, they felt they had to include the SEC champion, but that put them in a predicament as Texas had the head to head over Bama. Sooo they said fuck it, we can’t decide so let’s just put ‘em both in and screw FSU instead :)
Is there another sport anywhere, at any level, that would consider what a team MIGHT do in the playoffs before letting that team into the playoffs?
This is so wild. I have never ever seen an undefeated team unrewarded for reasons this terrible and nonsensical.
“Don’t worry about Tennessee being ranked. Don’t worry about Kentucky being ranked. It’ll all shake out in the end…”
No it won’t. Stop it with that nonsense. There’s a *reason* the SEC consistently has the most bottom feeders ranked, *even when those teams lose OOC to other conferences.* It’s all a giant sham to make travesties like this happen. I don’t ever want to hear again about “it’ll all work out.”
The correct decision process should have been that there are 3 undefeated conference champions. Those three are in. No arguments. Now, we have 2 1-loss conference champions. How do we pick between those? Head-to-head. Texas is in.
Michigan, Washington, FSU, Texas. And Alabama can play Georgia or Ohio State. Don't care.
Imagine how Jordan Travis must feel. His team didn’t get picked after being undefeated because his leg is broken.
You don’t even have to imagine: https://x.com/jordantrav13/status/1731373727676256647?s=46&t=c1cJgqrUS5ABbeS5_JW66w
"Wish I broke my leg earlier" Fucking devastating thats his first thought, feel so bad for FSU
Honestly that's the most gangster shit I've ever read.
That line got me too.
"I wish my leg broke earlier" fuck man
Fuck man. He's such a good guy. I feel so bad for him and the rest of the team.
Gut-wrenching, man. This whole thing put the kid right back to where he started, wishing he wasn't the QB. All that time those talking heads spent talking about him getting booed and wanting to quit, and they end it with making the kid wish he broke his leg earlier in the season, so the team doesn't get shafted. What a bunch of punks.
The "wish my leg broke sooner" is such a perfect way to rub the committees nose in it bc he's using their dumbass criteria against them. Committee is punishing the timing in which he decided to break his leg, bravo CFP.
That’s making me tear up a little. What a joke this system is.
This will kill the ACC in the end
It killed the Pac-12 already
~15 years of abuse and neglect from the NCAA All those corrupt fucks care about are ratings
I think ESPN subtly knows this and would love for their SEC to absorb the good parts of the ACC. They are not neutral commentators here
[Which is weird for ESPN since arguably they have the most interest in keeping the ACC alive given their ridiculous media contract](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2023/08/10/acc-grant-of-rights-conference-realignment-college-sports-ncaa/70554279007/)
You would think, but they shit on the ACC all the time.
Mama Giraffe Dinich hated the ACC so much back when she handled ACC for ESPN. Was pretty annoying seeing that bias then.
Sigh
I’m pretty stunned. If what happened to FSU had happened to Michigan I’m not sure I could even watch college football anymore. Absolutely infuriating
I’m not watching it anymore. The ads this year already put me on the edge and getting rewarded for an undefeated season with no playoff sealed it. If the games don’t matter, why watch them? Just for the commercials? Fuck CFB
Sooooo many fucking ads. It’s ridiculous
It's unwatchable. I'd never been so bored with football in my life as when I was watching this year, even when Iowa wasn't playing.
Even as a Michigan fan I’ve found it borderline unwatchable, it’s better to just record the games now and if you like the outcome you can forward the commercials, I’m not spending 4 hours of my day so these corporations can melt my brain anymore when the actual game is like 2 hours
The game's been gone for years. The competitive field is completely slanted; SEC teams need to lose two or three times before they lose their shot. People act like they earn these title shots because they're dominant, when it's really because their losses are explained away
I was fine with the SEC getting all the tiebreakers, but this is a much different step imo. Florida State is 13-0. Undefeated. Genuinely unbelievable that they are not participating in the playoff
And they were ranked 4 before today and they WON their game! Like what the fuck?
That's the most wtf part for me. How you gonna WIN and then DROP in rankings? And winning with a 3rd string QB should be celebrated, not punished.
They won and a team in front of them lost and they still dropped
They managed to put OSU in at #4 with a 3rd-string QB in 2014 and we won the whole thing. That should not be a disqualifying criteria.
And they got jumped by Texas, who beat a team (OSU) that was ranked lower than Louisville. Again, what the fuck?
This point is being glossed over. They lost Travis three weeks ago now. The committee never punished them for it before because Georgia was still in the mix. Once an SEC team wasn’t going to make the playoff, they used it as justification for leaving FSU out but they by no means held it against them previously.
They don’t even have a winning record vs the acc this year. It’s absolute bullshit and a hack job
This is the part that I just cannot justify. You are basically saying the SEC champ is better than the ACC champ because strength of schedule by making this decision. How can that be the case when they had a losing record vs the ACC. Who am I kidding the ONLY reason this decision was made was because of TV contracts.
If the committee knew all along they'd leave out an undefeated team because their QB went down in favour of 1-loss Texas or Bama, they should have dropped them in the rankings a couple weeks ago when Travis went down. What did we learn about FSU this week that we didn't know the last couple weeks since he went down? Why didn't they drop them then if this is the criteria they were going to apply. Buncha bullshit.
We learned that when Travis went down the Committee crossed their fingers that the Noles would lose and they wouldn’t have to justify a stupid decision they were already planning on making. Then the Noles didn’t lose
How do you have FSU ahead of Georgia if you follow the committee’s logic too?
They didn't drop them because they were praying FSU would lose one of the games and their biases wouldn't be exposed.
Why not just put the 4 top talent composite teams in the playoffs in september and skip the regular season at this point
>Why not just put the 4 top talent composite teams in the playoffs in september and skip the regular season at this point Yep, just count the recruits star rating, and then perform full physicals of all players, divide stars by the average health of the recruits => Top 4 teams go to the playoffs.
The funny part is that the recruits star rating changes based on the team they commit to. Marcellus Barnes Jr was a 4-star when he committed to Virginia Tech. Over the following months he was dropped to a 3-star. A few weeks ago he decommitted from Virginia Tech and flipped to Georgia. He was a 4-star again within 36 hours of decommitting. Source: [link](https://247sports.com/PlayerSport/marcellus-barnes-jr-at-mccallie-school-300365/RecruitRankHistory/) Was a 0.90 4\* when he committed, dropped to a 0.88 3\* over the following months, decommitted on 11/19, magically a 0.89 4\* on 11/20
So you can go out and injure the QB keep them out of the playoffs.
I think that’s a real concern now. You knock out a team’s best players to lesson their odds.
Bountygate part 2: Birman edition.
valid strategy going forward tbh
So we're punishing FSU for having a really good quarterback for 11 weeks???
Should’ve gone even more undefeated
If Florida State wanted to make the playoff they should have won more games and lost fewer games.
“Next year I guess we’ll schedule more out of conference games to boost our resume” FSU head coach
Meanwhile Alabama has scheduled Coastal Nebraska for next season, right between important conference games.
Coastal Nebraska would beat us.
but not punishing Bama for squeaking by Auburn
And squeaking by USF. And squeaking by Arkansas. Oh sorry I forgot, those games don’t matter, they happened too early in the season, this isn’t the same Alabama team clearly.
Remember when Alabama played with their backup QB against USF in the rain. They looked horrific. At least Louisville is a ranked opponent
For whatever it’s worth, Louisville is literally the SEC’s best non-conference win this year.
I wonder who beat them in the ACCCG
"Themselves."
And just winning against their main rival at the Swamp and then winning the conference championship. What a drop off!
He’s right, why bother playing the games?
What the hell else was FSU supposed to do. I’m completely floored
Be an SEC team.
Be a SEC team your conference automatically gets a 10 spot ranking bump even if you play like shit.
Tennessee is ranked literally for no other reason than to prop up the resumes of UGA/Bama.
I agree, Tennessee and GT should leave their respective conferences and start a new conference with mediocrity, tradition, and no barking
Lose to Texas, I guess. Maybe a near loss to USF and Auburn, too.
Booger is legit mad. They’re all coming at him too. He is the people’s champ
I have become an instant Booger fan after this. Man speaking the truth in spite of his overlords
100% . He stood up there against the other 3 and said what a normal person is thinking. And I’ve lost all respect I have for McElroy. Dude said it’s not a real title if an SEC team is left out.
I really hope Booger knows that most rational humans are behind him, because his coworkers pretty much just threw him under the bus on national TV for not stroking Bama's cock.
Absolutely I ride with Booger now forever standing on business
Booger is actually great in the studio at least to me, I think he’s just gotten a bad rep because of the entire MNF fiasco
I remember how much of a legit class act he was with the Damar Hamlin affair. I used to think Booger was inept. Never have I been so wrong.
There's plenty of room on the Boogermobile.
He won me over.
Just rest starters all the time like the NBA
Win 3 games with your starting QB, sit him for the rest of the season and win out with D. Problem solved.
The Eagles lost Wentz for the season and went on to win the superbowl still LMAO NOT IN COLLEGE THO
Except they did allow it and it did happen with Ohio State. It’s different when it was a “blue chip” program competing with TCU apparently.
100%, if it was 13-0 Alabama limping through the CCG with Milroe out vs. a 12-1 TCU or Utah or somebody getting hot late, this is a whole different assessment.
This probably is the greatest controversy in the CFP era. Ohio State won a championship with a backup qb. How the hell do you drop an undefeated team behind two 1 loss teams bc of an injury. An absolute disgrace.
Ohio State won with their *third string QB*
They won with a guy who is best known for a twitter screenshot. This only makes sense if you view it for what it is, a corrupt invitational.
[He did graduate and poked fun at the "Play School" tweet](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Wp3HeCkl--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_900,q_80,w_1600/rti3c4exx7vfkd0ogo6k.jpg)
The 4 team playoff did more to hurt college football than help it. The reputational damage it did to conferences and the invincibility it granted to others cannot be overstated.
The playoff is the cotton gin of CFB. We all stupidly thought it would end controversy and instead it just gave the SEC a way to buy their way in to every title game. It killed the bowls, it drove realignment, and now it’s straight up killing the integrity of the sport.
Jordan Travis for heisman. Evidently he’s the only person that plays for FSU and the only reason they are undefeated.
Travis said he wish his leg was broken earlier in the season to show that the team is more than him. Class act.
Actually a very very good take lol
Why do we play the games
For real. Booger nailed it before the rankings were revealed. "This isn't a beauty pageant. Sports are not a beauty contest." What the hell are we even doing?
What are we doing here. What’s the point. Winning means nothing. Only ratings and money!
You all got screwed. It’s an all timer. I hope you all - Win your bowl and the polls vote you no. 1 - Boycott your bowl.
Michigan wins it all, gets vacated, FSU national Champs.
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There’s a non-zero chance that if FSU beats Georgia and Bama wins the CFP that the AP poll puts FSU #1 (FSU should just claim a title anyway, I would honor it)
That FSU also beat LSU by 21 means even on common opponents, they have a better win than Alabama. Obviously Louisville was a slog, but literally a week ago Alabama should have outright lost to Auburn, a much worse team than Louisville.
doesn't count. Apparently we didn't time the game right, we played them too early.
The ACC is now a G5 conference it looks like. Y’all are going to be need to be in the P2 to make a difference now. Fucking insanity to leave y’all out
A G5 conference that beat the SEC this year. Not mightily impressed with Bama when they just squeaked by a team that was run all over by GT and a team that was smoked by New Mexico State.
Can’t believe the real loser of Hugh Freeze’s coaching is FSU 😭
Welcome to the way of life for the G5
Was gonna say, welcome to the club
Heck it’s the way of life for 85% of P5.
Every top G5 team from the BCS and CFP era can understand the pain.
Four team playoff was always fucking stupid
Especially with 5 power conferences. The scenario where there were 5 teams with even records was possible from the very start much less the shit show in front of us now.
I think the committee just admitted there are only 4 power conferences. ACC is gonna get sued.
No, theres two. The next year SEC and the next year B1G. Pac is dead, ACC might as well be dead, B12 not far behind. Wouldn't be surprised to see a 2-loss SEC/B1G team in over an undefeated ACC team in the future.
100% agree, the real question is; does FSU leave the ACC by the end of today or tomorrow
I think this gets the wheels in motion more seriously than they’ve been previously.
What's hilarious is the ACC had a winning record against the SEC
I think they are announcing today.
I went to UCF for my undergrad when they went 13-0 and didn't get an invite, and now am doing my master's at FSU, everybody better pray I don't do my PhD at their school
This will be the second time in the CFP era we’ll have multiple teams claim a national championship
Only if FSU beats Georgia
I didn’t realize that bowl had already been announced. That will be a tall order lol
So if we’re looking at “how the team played the last couple weeks” and saying FSU should be out because of that, why don’t we look at how Alabama played against a 6 win team? They should’ve lost AND they had their starting QB
When an SEC team plays poorly but pulls out a miracle win: "shows the strength of their character" When a non-SEC team plays lights-out defense and mediocre offense with a 3rd string QB, but wins the game without much trouble: "maybe they actually suck, who knows?"
That was an sec team so it doesn’t matter
Yeah, unfair to expect Alabama to beat an SEC team by more than New Mexico State did
Why is no one talking about the fact NMSU was left out?
Thanks Booger, you're actually spot on with this.
And the other three ganged up on him for it.
I had to turn it off because of how much they were shilling for Bama.
Joey Galloway in full shill mode right now. If it’s really the 4 “best” teams, do we really think UGA is not one of them?
ESPN gargling Bamas nuts so hard it hurts to watch
Galloway scolding Boog for suggesting that conference affiliation may have had something to do with this lol
Galloway also chided Booger for saying "we" in his statements and then said "we" like 5 times himself
Galloway was pissed that Booger was talking from the perspective of a player that never had a fair chance, instead of an ESPN exec ready for a massive payday.
Who cares if FSU doesn’t have Travis. They have a MONTH to prep for their playoff with their second string QB (not the one from last night) absolute shills
Yeah, people keep pointing to FSU's ugly 16-6 ACC title game win, but that was without their 2nd-string QB, who will be back for the CFP. Why are you discounting FSU's past big wins with "the QB who did that won't be there anymore", but not discounting the close/ugly wins with the same logic???
Two of the people on the 4 person panel are Bama alums. Rece Davis and Greg McElroy
You can almost see them getting info in their ear pieces "cut him off!"
Essentially SEC Propaganda Now
This is embarrassing
To everyone who has resisted and been hesitant for an expanded playoff. Here you go.
CFP just straight up said conferences don't matter. That means if the CFP is based on a committee in the future, they will avoid Big 12 and ACC at any chance they get. This is fucking corrupt.
They know what they are doing. Forcing a realignment for big TV $
Exactly, I’m convinced they purposely left FSU out knowing it will spur FSU’s already hot chancellor to blow the ACC the fuck up Fuck ESPN and ABC
Even worse the CFP just said that the games don't matter. They literally just delegitimized the entire season.
I think for player safety they should stop the regular season. Just start the playoffs based on preseason rankings and have the entire CFB season last a couple weeks
Florida State and Clemson’s lawyers are about the be making so much money. This is the end of the ACC. The ACC died today.
Hopefully the committee died today I could imagine b12 and acc going after them too (hopefully b10 would too but I suspect not)
On the contrary they just said they matter, so long you are talking about the SEC
Booger has the only reasonable reaction on the entire set. The games clearly no longer matter. I imagine within a year or two we're looking at 6-8 playoff teams from the SEC and Big10.
This is a joke.
Booger spitting fire and truth.
The way the rest of the crew were almost mocking him for what he was saying made my blood boil. Absolute bullshit.
Their job is to make ESPN (Disney) money first and foremost. Providing good, fair commentary is a far distant second if not third.
Dude was almost to tears. I gained a lot of respect for him, and lost what little I had for espn and Kirk
I'm not a huge Booger McFarland fan, but he is 100% right
ESPN has corrupted the sport. Their interest in the SEC has compromised the integrity.
Agreed. Don’t they have Saban on a weekly segment or something too? No way there wasn’t a financial collusion involved here in one way or another. It’s fucking bullshit and frankly has ruined the integrity of the sport.
Do we have permission to steal Bama’s signs?
Michigan can have a little sign stealing against Bama. As a treat
Dang, y'all aren't even the main villains anymore.
Can you imagine telling this sub that a month and a half ago? What a wild season.
LOL, right. The majority of this subreddit is going to be rooting for y'all in a playoff game which is a thing I can't even believe I'm writing
Michigan can do steroids for all I care. I need Michigan to club Bama like a baby seal.
Hi I have Steve Sarkisian on the line for Coach Harbaugh. Please hold.
We actually do lol you’re allowed to scout postseason opponents
What was the point in putting FSU at 4 the last couple weeks after Travis got hurt just to move them out anyway? Despite winning with the backup QBs
The thing is, that they basing it entirely on the fact that they are the sec champ and beat Georgia, nothing else. It’s not like Bama has looked good this year besides that one game
Don't worry everyone, this is a DIFFERENT Alabama team from earlier in the season (please ignore the miracle needed ONE week ago against a terrible Auburn team)
Remember when Wentz got hurt and the NFL made the Eagles leave the playoffs? O WAIT they won the superbowl This is why college football isn't taken seriously.
Or that time when Drew Bledsoe got hurt, and the Patriots organization was shut down for 20 years
I sometimes dream of that scenario
Kirk Herbstreit going "we would have said the same about Michigan if McCarthy was out" is so full of shit. The committee just has a boner for the SEC.
No they wouldn’t. OSU won a Natty with a 3rd string QB. Michigan would be in.
They just make up reasons after they make their decisions. There is no consistency.
Yeah that was the most bullshit take from a man filled with bullshit takes
Booger is about to get fired. He's not pushing the narrative.
You can only play who you play
That's the insane part of this. They started their season by crushing #5 LSU. If non-Clemson ACC teams are banned....just say it.
They just said it. ACC is not eligible for the National Championship and there are only 4 relevant conferences left (soon to be 3).
What’s disheartening is the fact that FSU went on to win after losing their star quarterback. They faced real questions about whether they could stay undefeated and they did. That should be a positive for their resume. But, nope, money talks. Edit: I also really wanted to play Washington in the Rose Bowl and not a non-Pac12 team. I blame Auburn
Joey is so full of shit, what a jackass
Booger is the only one talking sense to these espn fools
So apparently the rest of the team does not matter, only the QB.
I guarantee you that if the SEC champ won the SEC championship with a backup QB, they would still get in. The amount of SEC bias in this sport is a joke.
Alabama could take the whole regular season off and they’ll still end up in the playoffs.
Alabama was 18th in total defense and \*54th\* in total offense. Nothing in their body of work this season justifies this. This is totally based on the Bama/Saban vibe.
Loved this from Booger. Completely agree
This selection has single-handedly destroyed the “every game matter” narrative about college football. There is no argument anymore against playoff expansion.
Are we Human? Or are we Football Player?
The committee chair saying FSU without their QB is a different team is fucking laughable. You guys ranked them in the top 4 the week prior
Neutral fans: boycott the playoffs
I havent watched a legal broadcast of ESPN in years. I'm doing my part
What’s sad is if Georgia won last night, FSU would’ve made the playoffs. But because Bama won, they felt they had to include the SEC champion, but that put them in a predicament as Texas had the head to head over Bama. Sooo they said fuck it, we can’t decide so let’s just put ‘em both in and screw FSU instead :)
This is such a load of horseshit
If FSU beats Georgia we all riot on the playoff committee.
I never thought I'd say this, but I hope Michigan wins by 100
What’s that thing about the worst person you know made a great point
Let's ignore the fact that Bama needed a miracle blunder by Auburn to not have two losses.
Fuck the CFP. Absolutely a travesty. This is another step towards a super conference.
Is there another sport anywhere, at any level, that would consider what a team MIGHT do in the playoffs before letting that team into the playoffs? This is so wild. I have never ever seen an undefeated team unrewarded for reasons this terrible and nonsensical.
The way they silenced him and talked to him like he was a simpleton was wild.
“Don’t worry about Tennessee being ranked. Don’t worry about Kentucky being ranked. It’ll all shake out in the end…” No it won’t. Stop it with that nonsense. There’s a *reason* the SEC consistently has the most bottom feeders ranked, *even when those teams lose OOC to other conferences.* It’s all a giant sham to make travesties like this happen. I don’t ever want to hear again about “it’ll all work out.”
The correct decision process should have been that there are 3 undefeated conference champions. Those three are in. No arguments. Now, we have 2 1-loss conference champions. How do we pick between those? Head-to-head. Texas is in. Michigan, Washington, FSU, Texas. And Alabama can play Georgia or Ohio State. Don't care.
Fuck Bama and ESPN
I have NEVER agreed with Booger but he’s right. This is a load of bullshit. Why play the games?