College Football Playoff Controversy: FSU Out, Alabama In

Florida State was controversially excluded from the School Soccer Playoff regardless of going undefeated. [Image: Shutterstock.com]

School Soccer playoff insanity

The four-team School Soccer Playoff (CFP) area was introduced Sunday—and it didn’t go over nicely.

Undefeated Florida State was excluded from the bracket by the choice committee in favor of one-loss SEC champion Alabama. That’s regardless of the Seminoles rating forward of the Crimson Tide for almost all of the season, together with final weekend, and profitable their convention championship. 

the controversy has change into whether or not the committee bought it proper or not

With the NCAA set to show to a 12-team area subsequent season, the controversy has change into whether or not the committee bought it proper or not in its last yr selecting simply 4 groups. Whereas there isn’t any goal reply on the matter, the general public appears to imagine they didn’t. 

The nomination goes to…

4 groups make the CFP to compete in a mini single-elimination-style bracket.

Whereas faculties corresponding to Michigan and Washington had been virtually assured spots within the CFP, and Texas was the presumptive third workforce, the fourth spot was up for grabs. 

Florida State, Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State had been all suitors for the fourth seed. Listed here are a number of main speaking factors for every college:

Florida State

• 13-0 ACC Champion, 2-0 in opposition to prime 15 groups
• Ranked fourth heading into championship weekend
• Beginning QB Jordan Travis was misplaced for the season a few weeks in the past

Alabama

• 12-1 SEC champion, beat back-to-back nationwide champion Georgia in SEC Championship Recreation
• Misplaced at dwelling to Texas in Week 2
• 3-1 in opposition to prime 15 groups, 4-1 in opposition to prime 25 groups

Georgia

• 12-1, solely loss to Alabama in SEC Championship Recreation
• Ranked first for almost all of the yr
• Defending back-to-back nationwide champions

Ohio State

• 11-1, solely loss to Michigan in season finale
• Beat No. 7 Penn State 
• 1-1 in opposition to prime 25 groups

Reaching a call

The choice committee is meant to search out the 4 finest groups to compete within the CFP. Nevertheless, the 4 finest groups have typically changed into the 4 most deserving groups, and with good motive. 

Final yr, TCU went 12-1 with its solely loss coming within the Massive 12 Championship Recreation. Regardless of preseason rankings placing them behind many different groups in their very own convention, they vindicated a variety to the CFP with a semifinal win in opposition to No. 2 Michigan, 51-45.

Nevertheless, they had been annihilated within the nationwide championship by Georgia, 65-7.

In 2021, 13-0 Cincinnati even made it to the CFP behind NFL gamers Sauce Gardner and Desmond Ridder, although they misplaced to No. 1 Alabama, 27-6 within the semifinal.

That is the primary time that an undefeated Energy 5 convention champion will miss out on the CFP. For a lot of, the query is barely: “What extra might they’ve finished?”

The damage to Travis, as soon as a Heisman candidate, performed a key half within the resolution to go away the Seminoles out of the bracket, as defined by committee chair Boo Corrigan.