FSU Got Jipped

[orangetaz]

They should be in the playoffs not bama

 

[Lawrence Wright]

Again?

 

[MHS Rebel]

Gypped.

 

[Lawrence Wright]

Gypped.

He was my favorite villain on Boardwalk Empire.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

 

[PEPPERJAX]

This is the thread that finally convinced me.

 

[Pennheel]

An SEC team was needed to fill it out because it was more appealing than putting Florida St. in there according to the committee.

I agree with the OP,but it is what it is.

 

[Gatoringa]

 

[Gatoringa]

They had their chance to leave that conference twice

 

[Fightmaker]

The Noles are victims, just like Michigan.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

First I’ve heard of this

 

[RDU VOL#14]

He was my favorite villain on Boardwalk Empire.
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Thats one of my favorite characters ever.

 

[Delmar]

They had their chance to leave that conference twice

I said it the other day and Paul Finebaum said the same thing yesterday. There is noise that a lot of folks in college football have been angry at FSU for publicly stating last spring that they were basically too good for the ACC and were looking to get out because of the money situation. Since there are 5 people with ACC ties on the committee (including the chairman), that sounds plausible to me.

Finebaum basically asked why would the committee punish probably the biggest brand in college football and reward a “renegade” program? Now I know that Finebaum is paid partly by the SEC Network and is a Bama shill but I believe that scenario played a part in the robbery.

 

[Matt2496]

They should be in the playoffs not bama

Thanks Jimmy

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

Agree. Always different rules for Bama, Ohio State and Notre Dame.

 

[05_never_again]

I said it the other day and Paul Finebaum said the same thing yesterday. There is noise that a lot of folks in college football have been angry at FSU for publicly stating last spring that they were basically too good for the ACC and were looking to get out because of the money situation. Since there are 5 people with ACC ties on the committee (including the chairman), that sounds plausible to me.

Finebaum basically asked why would the committee punish probably the biggest brand in college football and reward a “renegade” program? Now I know that Finebaum is paid partly by the SEC Network and is a Bama shill but I believe that scenario played a part in the robbery.

I see where you're going with that, but isn't that cutting off their nose to spite their face? Like FSU or not, having them in the CFP is good for the other ACC programs from a financial perspective.

 

[lawgator1]

I said it the other day and Paul Finebaum said the same thing yesterday. There is noise that a lot of folks in college football have been angry at FSU for publicly stating last spring that they were basically too good for the ACC and were looking to get out because of the money situation. Since there are 5 people with ACC ties on the committee (including the chairman), that sounds plausible to me.

Finebaum basically asked why would the committee punish probably the biggest brand in college football and reward a “renegade” program? Now I know that Finebaum is paid partly by the SEC Network and is a Bama shill but I believe that scenario played a part in the robbery.

Conspiracy amongst five committee members to retaliate for comments made a year ago knocking the ACC?

Or enough committee members felt like the vast, vast majority of football-viewing public that Alabama is a better football team than FSU?

Occam's razor invoked.

 

[LouderVol]

I said it the other day and Paul Finebaum said the same thing yesterday. There is noise that a lot of folks in college football have been angry at FSU for publicly stating last spring that they were basically too good for the ACC and were looking to get out because of the money situation. Since there are 5 people with ACC ties on the committee (including the chairman), that sounds plausible to me.

Finebaum basically asked why would the committee punish probably the biggest brand in college football and reward a “renegade” program? Now I know that Finebaum is paid partly by the SEC Network and is a Bama shill but I believe that scenario played a part in the robbery.

would be just as likely those individuals, assuming they actually cared about the ACC and not just being a petty fan, would have pushed to include FSU. a happy FSU keeps the ACC together. If FSU left that would be the first domino in the death of the ACC.

having FSU in also helps the ACC credibility in general if its not just Clemson making the playoffs.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

would be just as likely those individuals, assuming they actually cared about the ACC and not just being a petty fan, would have pushed to include FSU. a happy FSU keeps the ACC together. If FSU left that would be the first domino in the death of the ACC.

having FSU in also helps the ACC credibility in general if its not just Clemson making the playoffs.

ESPN should also want to keep the ACC together. They’re paying peanuts for the deal. ESPN is already having financial issues. I doubt they’d Want to fork over more $$ in the event that the ACC ever wanted to renegotiate or even the has capability of finding the cash that would come along w/ adding 2 or 4 more schools to the SEC.

 

[hUTch2002]

Gypped.

Is that a hard G or are you happy to see me?

 

[hUTch2002]

Voting in secret is dumb. Then again there’s a lot of crazies out there, mostly in Alabama, that kill people for things like this.

 

[hUTch2002]

Conspiracy amongst five committee members to retaliate for comments made a year ago knocking the ACC?

Or enough committee members felt like the vast, vast majority of football-viewing public that Alabama is a better football team than FSU?

Occam's razor invoked.

Funny you never applied that principle to anything related to a certain former reality TV personality turned politician.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

 

[KoachKrab127]

I’ll try to make an analogy to demonstrate how wrong it was to pick Bama over FSU. Imagine if last year, in the NBA playoffs, Jokic got injured when sweeping the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. The NBA then said, well, without Jokic, Denver isn’t the best team. The Celtics and Heat had a 7 game series, so even though the Celtics lost game 7, we’ll go ahead and put the Celtics in the Finals against the Heat, because obviously the Nuggets are not one of the best teams.

You could also do this with the NFL. What Mahomes got hurt? Well, clearly the Chiefs aren’t the best team. We’ll just put the Bills in the Super Bowl because we think they’re better.

The playoff committee proved that winning doesn’t matter. Going undefeated, winning your conference, dominating a top 15 SEC team doesn’t matter. I’m so glad we are expanding the playoffs to 12 teams next year.

Arguing whether a 9-3 or 10-2 team without a conference championship deserves to be the 12 seed is much less impactful.

 

[volbound1700]

Part of the issue that I see on my end as well is all of the SEC's OOC loses really don't make it look that strong this year. Most of these losses were to the ACC as well. That should have mean something. If FSU had a soft OOC schedule or the SEC had performed well overall, I would see Alabama's argument.

Why not leave out Michigan because of their chicken sh1t OOC schedule?