Danny Kanell goes on lengthy Twitter rant over Playoff matchups, Alabama selection
It’s safe to say not everyone was a fan of two SEC teams making the final four in the College Football Playoff.
The 2017 Playoff field was officially set on Sunday with Clemson, Oklahoma, and Georgia occupying the top three spots after winning a conference championship on Saturday. The fourth and final spot went to Alabama despite not playing in the SEC Championship.
In the end, Alabama’s lone loss and resume was selected over two-loss Big 10 champion Ohio State. Both teams had solid resumes, but the exclusion of Ohio State means that a two-loss team has yet to make the final four.
Two SEC teams in the final four is certainly a strong accomplishment for the conference, but not everyone was happy about the selections. Former Florida State QB and current analyst Danny Kanell was clearly not a fan of the final four teams and went off on the Playoff system and SEC on Twitter.
Here’s a look at his rant:
This thing we call a "Playoff" is really nothing different than the Maui Invitational or the PK80 in hoops. To call it a "playoff" is dishonest. It's not.
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 3, 2017
SEC breaks the internet regardless of who’s #4. For better or worse…
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 3, 2017
Clearly, going on the road to Starkville and needing a 4th quarter drive to beat Miss State is enough to impress.
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/dannykanell/status/937376546196742144
(Georgia’s deficit in the 40-17 loss to Auburn this season was not 31 points, a fact he would later realize.)
So your 2017 Made For TV Ratings Invitational will be:
1. Clemson vs 4. Bama
2. Oklahoma vs 3. Georgia
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 3, 2017
Lol. All you SEC fans acting like 40-17 isn’t a blowout 😂😂😂. But hey, SEC gets passes like NO other conference. #math
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 3, 2017
What a fantastic system…in the second straight year the “4th best team” gets a BYE week leading into Invitational 🤔
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 3, 2017
Maybe you guys should rebrand as the Bama Network??? https://t.co/0F9n5fYMaR
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 3, 2017
Everyone is more than entitled to their own opinion, but each team in the Playoff does have a solid resume on its side. The Playoff semifinals should also provide exciting games for fans of college football.
Danny Kanell’s tears sustain me…..
LOL!
You know it’s been a good week when both Kanell and Cowherd are hopping mad at the SEC!
I agree with Danny 100 petcent. I HATE ALABAMA WITH EVERYTHING IN ME. THE PLAYOFF IS S JOKE JUST LIKE THE BCS.
So an Auburn fan agrees with someone who has something negative to say about bama…. So hard to believe…
Read some of this previous posts from his profile. The dude is having some sort of nervous breakdown, spouting the most ridiculous stuff without explaining any of it. He’s not handling yesterday’s loss very well. Or maybe he just missed his yoga class. Could be both.
his* previous posts
I agree that the playoff is flawed. I think Bama should be in though. My problem is that until the teams are to actually face off you can’t say for sure who is the best. We need 8 teams in the playoff, power 5 conference champs, group of 5 champ – this years UCF and 2 at large. Then we know for sure who is the best team. Auburn beat bama and georgia already. Maybe they just had an off week against Georgia in the SEC championship. Maybe UCF’s offense is so groundbreaking they surprise everyone and win it all. Maybe Ohio St is for real and goes on to devour everyone in its path. Is any of that likely, no. What’s likely is that Alabama would win it all but, we can’t know because the system is currently flawed. I like it a lot more than the BCS but it still has its flaws.
It’s definitely flawed, but I really hate how the committee puts more emphasis on the eye test than anything else. They bash Whisky for an obviously weak schedule, but ignore Bama’s. In fact, Whisky beat everyone on their schedule by at least two scores until their Championship loss.
Who would be the four in your world?
It would have been a bigger joke if Ohio State made it. Bama lost to the then-#6 Auburn, a way better loss Ohio State getting thumped by an unranked Iowa team. Had they beaten Iowa and won out, Bama never would have made the playoffs over them. There’s no way a two loss OSU team was gonna make the playoffs over a 1 loss Bama, even with a conference championship.
Danny is an idiot who rather boost his Anti SEC hate instead of looking at facts. He didn’t say anything when OSU basically did the same thing last year. OSU didn’t even play in the B10 CCG yet they made the playoff just to lose 31-0 to Clemson.
Problem is, Bama doesn’t have a good win. Their two top wins were extremely close…and easily could have been losses. The committee is basically saying a weak SOS means nothing…unless you’re in the Big10.
So who would you put in besides Alabama?
But Alabama doesn’t have a worse loss than Ohio State. Bama lost to a top 10 team in Auburn while Ohio State lost to Iowa AND Oklahoma. The Oklahoma loss can be overlooked considering they are in the playoffs but getting blown out by unranked Iowa?
OSU’s SOS wasn’t a problem. They had a pretty strong schedule but that loss against Iowa hurt them. If Ohio State didn’t lose to Iowa, they would have been in the playoffs over Alabama hands down. I don’t understand why this is so hard to understand. If both schools had the same amount of losses, Ohio state would have had the advantage over Bama and would have been #4 but considering they don’t and one of those losses was a 55-24 loss to unranked Iowa team, that’s why Bama is in the playoffs over OSU.
The SOS plays a factor, which is why UCF isn’t in the playoffs, but there’s more factors than just SOS. The general win-loss records also matters. Auburn was the only 2 loss team that had realistic shot at the playoffs until they lost to UGA in the SECCG and that was purely off upsetting both #1 UGA and #1 Bama in the same season.
The SEC championship was a bigger joke (choke). Admit it, we broke you just like we broke FSU. Payback for that cheap shot on Hootie.
That was a cut block on a blitzing safety. Perfectly legal…unlike the cheap shot by Evans on Stidham. Typical Bammer, celebrating injuries while backing into a national title shot.
Typical barner… Crying and talking about conspiracies.
Salty Auburn fan is super salty…..
So you agree that the talent level is the same at Auburn as it is at Iowa?
Btw who did uga lose to by 31?
Hello folks. Above you can see firsthand what a delusion fan looks like: while they may appear scary, do not fear. They are in fact harmless, just a little crazy.
Nobody….
Exactly.
LTIC, too funny.
I’m starting to take some of these kanell comments personally. He sure likes to single us out in his bama smearing. I’m not going to look him up and maybe he just thinks UCF deserves a shot, but he comes off like a petulant little douche.
No, he’s made that Ohio State didn’t make it. I can’t wait to see what the shameless Big 10 shill Colin Cowherd has to say tomorrow. He claimed he was voting Ohio State #1 even though they had just lost to Iowa by 31 points.
I know one thing… had Miss State played FSU this year we would have run them out of the stadium.
Kanell is retarded and that’s all I have to say to that.
The only thing ESPN has done right lately was to fire this POS.
Kanell is a twat. I didn’t actually read the article. I just felt like stating the obvious.
Allbarn fans and disgruntled announcers unite.. i can hear them both singing together, “it was rigged! We were robbed!” Lmao roll tide roll!
Love college football but like i said a few days ago, i dnt think its a coincidence that for the 4th year in a row only nike sponsored teams have made this playoff. Hopefully they only have a 4 year deal and under armour can get sum love, and espn is screwing the big ten for signing that deal with fox. Believe what you want but bama in new orleans equals a lot more money than ohio st in new orleans.
Maybe if au wouldn’t have choked last night they’d be playing Georgia for a 3rd time but that would be ok with you huh… I somehow doubt you’d pick osu over au if they would have won..
Feel free to click on my profile and read what i posted b4 the uga game, i thought we were the better team but could not fully buy in to us winning because i personally think it’s rigged and think the way cfb picks a champ is and has always been a joke.
Do you think it was a joke in 2010?
Perhaps Auburn’s coach should have gotten on TV and cried and begged like a bitc$ for a playoff spot. Blame it all on the injuries….what a joke.
No need for Auburn to even try with 3 losses for a playoff spot.
Ohsu got in last year over Penn St but yep it’s a conspiracy to screw ohsu
They got picked over another Big10 team.
So did he say something wrong? Nope. It looks like what he said is what happened.
Dude, 70% of power 5 teams wear Nike. You’d have guessed if you watched a few games.
Exactly, so 30 percent of the power 5 has no shot at making the playoff.
Poor little fella. I’ve seen some sad envy fueled conspiracy theories from the orange headed step children, but this one… this one has me rolling with laughter. Thank you and Thomas SO MUCH for making my day.
sorry Kanell but Bama would beat the doors off of OSU 99 out of 100 times, only thing that’s hurting them is their shorthanded LB core. I think playoff committee actually selected 4 best teams in the country
Danny Kanell and Thomas eat their boogers
What are you a first grader? Lol
This guy is a clown…hes supposed to be a professional…yea right!
UGA was blown out by a ranked division rival.
tOSU was blown out by an unranked division rival.
UGA redeemed that loss by a blowout of this own over said division rival a month later, winning the conference.
tOSU struggled against a team who played a weak schedule, winning the conference.
This will all be moot when SC beats the brakes off the Buckeyes next month…
Danny knows Danny knows….. 26-14…. We still beat Bama btw. It changes nothing. Auburn would never get in with losing the iron bowl and missing the sec championship if we had been 11-1 barley get in when we are undefeated. The heck with the crooked playoff. 26-14 26-14 26-14…. WDE….. Clemson 41 Alabama 30. Georgia 45 Oklahoma 17.. War Damn Eagle…. I don’t care if other auburn fans agree or not btw 26-14….. Even if bama does win there so called 17 we still beat bama 26-14….
I know Ohio state got in last year over Penn state and I had a lot to say about that and 2011 when bama played lsu in the bcs title game the process is dumb I don’t understand it its not hard we need a system where only conference champs get in period. Ohio state Uga Clemson and Oklahoma…It all comes down to MONEY that’s it. Its fixed and ill be here saying it forever.
I think they should go to an 8 team playoff. 5 spots for conference champs, 1 spot for non p5 school if undefeated and the last 2 spots go to the highest ranked p5 teams that aren’t conference champs. I think that makes it a little more fair
You would be singing a different tune had the tigers not crapped their drawers sat.
Please tell me who was better than either Bama or LSU in’11. The closest contender was Okie State who lost to a 6-6, unranked Iowa State team. Bama’s only loss was to #2 LSU in a 3 point, double overtime game. I just love the Boog logic…… or lack thereof….
Hey, quick question? Did y’all beat Bama?
Did it really matter?
Shut up Danny. What a clown
This is the result of a constant turtleneck wardrobe.
UGA got blown out AT Auburn when they were #2. UGA stomped Auburn in the SECCG.
Clemson lost to unranked Syracuse.
Oklahoma lost to unranked Iowa State.
“Totally agree that teams that lose by 30 points shouldn’t be allowed in!!!”
OSU got beat by Oklahoma and blownout by Iowa by 31
Out of these 4 teams, which one has the best resume?
By resume, I mean which one has the best lose.
But you can’t ignore the wins…or shouldn’t. What has Bama done? Absolutely nothing. Escaped Miss ST and LSU is all they can hang their hat on.
They’re a one loss team with a loss to a top 5 team (at the time), and they’re in the SEC. Ohio State has two losses and beat teams they should have won, and losing to two teams it shouldn’t (one of those in grand fashion). It’s a no brainer.
As soon as they announced 2sec teams in you knew the sec bashers would be out in full force. Kabell comes off pretty lame with his jealous rampage. Does free shoes u not teach math.
By the way, congrats to UGA for EARNING their spot in the CFP. It sucks you got screwed by the draw.
Cry us a river….
I actually think that the Rose Bowl is a pretty decent draw. A true “once in a lifetime” experience.
No kidding. Wish I could go.
Proving again that ESPN was correct in demoting him to Twitter analyst.
Kannell’s been spouting this gibberish for years, and all I can think of as a possible reason is that Alabama didn’t offer him out of high school. And it appears to go beyond the Tide re: his SEC loathing. Regardless, he’s lost all objectivity on the subject, and someone needs to unplug his mic. Even as a OSU alumnus, Herbstreit finally reversed field and agreed that the Tide is more deserving this year than the Buckeyes. Fact is, Big 10 football is just not what it used to be by any rational measurement. Bama 38, Michigan State 0…Clemson 31, Ohio State 0. Just sayin’…
Danny Kanell, the world’s last turtleneck model.
Poor triggered Danny… his hipster turtleneck and trendy Chuck Taylors in an effort to be the ‘quirky, anti SEC guy can’t cover up that he’s just bad at sports analysis. He has a show because being controversial = clickbait. Go crawl back in your hole Kannel.
For the record, I hate Alabama and I try to leave bias out of who I think should get in. I personally would have liked to see UCF in the 4th spot but I understand how things work. People rag on Florida State this year but they would have been a completely different team with DeAndr Francois playing. Bama whipped them with Francois. It wasn’t like he got hurt on the first drive, Blackmon ended up playing only like two plays. I still think it’s moot this year regardless. Oklahoma is my pick to win it, Mayfield is that guy.