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people acting like there aren't 5 teams deserving are incredible to me. misplacing the anger on bama instead of the shit situation the conferences put themselves in.

it's not that bama or fsu or any of them are undeserving based on resumes or anything, it's the whole system is fubar and someone (fsu) got f-ed. don't be pissed at your friend for getting the last piece of cake, be pissed at the party planners for not getting enough to begin with.

I'm not mad at Bama. I'm mad at the CFP committee. I think they f-ed the wrong team.

Admittedly, there's a TINY bit of me that feels like the pecking order is that the CFP rarely f's Bama--they get the benefit of the doubt at every turn while it seems like everyone else has to clear a higher bar than Bama every year. 

But it's still anger at the CFP committee, not at Bama.

Just that it would have been the perfect confluence of old and new.  It would have been a Rose and Sugar Bowl that both felt real, and had meaning.  Once Georgia lost, that was out the window.

I always wanted a lightly seeded playoff where you had the 5 P5 champs, best Group of 5 team, and 2 best at larges.  Big 10 champ vs. Pac 12 champ in the Rose, SEC Champ to the Sugar, Big XII to the Fiesta, ACC to the Orange.  Then you seed the other 3 and place them appropriately into the Sugar, Fiesta and Orange.  So you get 4 real bowl games, then a seeded 4 team playoff.

#1 Michigan vs. #2 Washington in the quarterfinals, so be it

outside of the controversy...

i think there's still a lot of good story lines for the rose. bama has a ton of history with the rose bowl, and is only 2 wins shy of washington and 3 from michigan in all tie rose bowl wins.

I'm not mad at Bama. I'm mad at the CFP committee. I think they f-ed the wrong team.

Admittedly, there's a TINY bit of me that feels like the pecking order is that the CFP rarely f's Bama--they get the benefit of the doubt at every turn while it seems like everyone else has to clear a higher bar than Bama every year.

But it's still anger at the CFP committee, not at Bama.

that's where is should be. i won't even disagree.

me too

You lost me. It is the Big Ten Champ, the Pac 12 Champ, The SEC Champ and either Texas or FSU in the Sugar.  Is your objection with the fact Mich is playing Alabama in the first game instead of Wash?

No. 


for the first time ever- there were 3 undefeated conference Champs.  PAC, Big, and ACC. 

5 power conferences but only 4 spots.  The first 3 should be automatic- they are undefeated. 

The last spot was also 2 conf champs to pick from- both at 12-1.  Easy this year because they played each other.  Texas won on Bama’s field. 

Should have been the perfect year for the committee to just use results- easy. 

But instead they decided to prognosticate the future instead of looking at results. 

Nobody credibly buts this BS about FSU QB being injured. Because nobody believes that, let’s say Georgia or Michigan for example, would have been left out for the same reason. 

But they wanted the SEC in there, so they prognosticated and contrived a reason. 

Next year is going to be crazy insane bizarre ridiculous.

No, next year is going to be boring. Top 6 conference champs automatically get in, and then you have 6 at-large selections. 

This year is bad because whether the #5 team is Bama or the #5 team is FSU, both have a REALLY strong argument for inclusion. I think when we get to spot #12 vs spot #13, neither team* will have a really strong argument. This year it's Oklahoma (10-2, 3rd place in their conference overall and T-2nd in conference only record) and LSU (9-3, 3rd place in their division, and based on overall record 5th place in their conference, 3-way T-3rd in conference only record). The worst team will get multiple mulligans. 

There would ABSOLUTELY not be the same level of vitriol for who is the last spot in a 12-team playoff compared to a 4-team when one of the excluded teams is an undefeated P5 conference champ.

 * Looking at it, maybe it's Ole Miss vs OU since Liberty would jump the line, but either way it's the same thing.

No, next year is going to be boring. Top 6 conference champs automatically get in, and then you have 6 at-large selections.

which 6 conferences?

Does the MAC or AAC get a spot?