Georgia fans are certainly pretty upset about most every aspect of the College Football Playoff rankings. But no fanbase is more aggrieved than those of the Florida State Seminoles. My former Bulldog beat colleague and current ACC expert David Hale has this brutal list of the reasons why the committee’s snub of the Noles is so hard to defend, most especially when it’s judged by what’s actually happened when teams have relied on backups quarterbacks in the playoff.
Personally I wonder if the decision was informed by Georgia’s 65-7 shellacking of TCU last year. Knowing the flack they took for that, there may have been a desire to provide their television partners three compelling games.