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"Like, the toughest phone call to turn down north of the Mason-Dixon Line to decline." What?

Execution was not there. Self inflicted drive stoppers with bad snaps. O Line not protecting, Milroe and o line not getting protection changed when needed because they got down to 1 second on play clock too many times. Rushing to get ball snapped. Plenty of blame to go around. Even the final play was open to run left or throw to RB but bad snap made it basically impossible. All those mistakes and still had a chance. Pretty good for a team everyone wrote off by the 3rd game of the season.

ESPN will have to pony up more money and that will not happen. SEC is not going to add teams and reduce payouts to teams. But what do I know?

Well this article worked got plenty of clicks and posts including mine. Imagine a coach going 3 years without a national championship. Oh wait that is pretty much every coach in the country but Saban. Stupid take. Slow news day.

"Predictive competitiveness is not a criteria for Playoff selection" Actually it is.

Let's hope they all feel like they are unbeatable. Over confidence is the exact recipe.

I beleive this is the correct take.

The word commitment has lost all meaning. He committed to 3 different schools.

Pretty sure taking a new job is not the same as not playing with your team for what amounts to selfish reasons. Sure they can get hurt. That could happen in game 1 of the season also. 1st pro game. Get insurance and play.

That is only 1 criteria, as you well know, he was just pointing out the difference between Alabama and the Noles.

The thing is, they absolutely followed the process. It was flawed from the beginning with 4 teams and 5 'power' conferences. 6 would have been the right way to go, 5 power conference champions and 1 at large with 1 and 2 getting byes first round. But at the time nobody wanted 3 rounds, by nobody I mean the powers that be etc.

No they left out what is now clearly not one of the 4 best teams.

I am sure she deserved it.

4 spots, 5 so called power conferences. Somebody is going to be left out. Might as well be the team without their best player. People point to Ohio State. Their backup was arguably better than the guy that went down.

There is no reason for Bowers to play and risk further injury. It would be ignorant of him to do so. I think UGA wins without their stars.

He is flat out wrong. Deserving is not in the committee charter. FSU is not one of the 4 best teams. SOS of 55. Play a weak schedule and win is not the same. Undefeated is not in the charter.

It was not a beauty contest. The committee used their criteria and voted and got what they hope are the 4 best teams. SOS being a big part I would suspect, but also availability of players. FSU jumped an undefeated West Virginia team in 1993 to play for and win a title while being 11-1. Just saying

FSU should be at UGA and declare themselves the People's champions, or even champions of life. UCF even raised a banner. FSU could do that too.

Funny Maine said it best. "People mad at Bama for a decision they didn't even make".

Yes sir.

ACC and Norvell did this to themselves by stopping the expansion earlier. This year would be 12 teams. Voting has consequences.

It will never be enough. Teams 13 to 15 will be arguing they deserve it. Or one team will say they deserve the bye and home field. There is no perfect system. Never will be. Undefeated is not mentioned anywhere in the committee's criteria, by the way. Texas was "rewarded" for beating Bama with the #3 ranking. FSU is just not one of the 4 best, now, they would be with their #1 QB.

Never say never about teams being left out even if they "deserve" it. People making decisions are not perfect and will never ever please everyone.

I can't wait til next year when teams 13 to 15 complain about being left out!

This article does a good job pointing out what an amazing job Saban has done for 16 years. "There will be voters who casted their vote at the end of the regular season" I am amazed at the poor English. Casted is not right. Cast. There will be voters who cast their vote at the end of the regular season. Casted is Old English but rarely used in modern language. Here is another use. The ship cast her anchor in the harbor.

Margin of victory is also not one of the criteria.

Undefeated is not one of the criteria stated in the charter for the committee.

FSU can blame their coach and the ACC commissioner for vetoing the expansion of the playoff a couple of years ago which probably would have been implemented this year. Remember the ACC BiG and PAC 12 formed an unholy alliance to stop expansion. Also Auburn 2004 was undefeated conference champion and was left out. So FSU is not the first in history as their coach and commissioner have stated. Nowhere in the charter of the committee does it say undefeated conference champions get in. It mentions that all things are considered, championships, strength of schedule (the real killer for FSU as they are 55th) head to head results, common opponents etc. Bama beat number 2, and 2 other top 10 teams, as well as 5 total top 25 vs. 3 for FSU. Objective as a subjective process can be. Next year teams 13 and 14 and so on, will complain. There is no perfect system. They can't do a 64 team playoff. Football is way more demanding than basketball in the physical sense and recovery etc. I would bet even with 64 teams outside would complain.

If all LSU has to claim is LSU and Florida victories while sporting a 55th ranked schedule strength then you are making the case for them to be out.

In the end it is about best not deserving. FSU is not one of the 4 best teams without their stud QB. A bad Louisville team had about 4 chances to win that game the other night but did not execute.