Florida State Quarterback In Second Day Of Rape Case Hearing
Reuters
By Bill Cotterell
2 hours ago
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - A school conduct code hearing looking into rape allegations against Florida State University star quarterback Jameis Winston entered a second day on Wednesday in a crucial week for one of America's highest profile athletes.
The 20-year-old sophomore, the top U.S. college football player last year after winning the Heisman Trophy, competes on Saturday in a conference title game that could decide whether the Florida State Seminoles advance to the sport's first collegiate playoffs.
Yet Winston's off-field behavior is under intense scrutiny as a former Florida Supreme Court justice hears testimony in a twice-delayed student disciplinary proceeding into allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman two years ago.
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FSU Criminoles can watch it on TV...................
B.S.
Florida State wins they are in.
Oregon Baylor TCU and one more should be in the final four assuming all win this week.
If FSU beats GT they are in. The major question is whether Winston will be expelled before the Playoff. Given this is FSU I doubt that will happen.
This committee system is bunk. A team in a major conference that hasn’t lost in over two years should be 1 or maybe 2. If another dominant team won all solidly with one loss in a squeaker...maybe, maybe they should rank ahead.
The 4 seed is BS in itself as they would have to play the top seed while 2 -3 play each other in the first round. It is not right to make an undefeated team play the harder team. They’d do themselves some favors by playing four good quarters this weekend and moving back up a notch.
I’m not a FSU fan but I think that they should be included in the play-offs - depending of course that they win the conference championship this weekend.
They are undefeated. Yeah, a lot of their wins weren’t pretty but they gutted it out and won. The fact that they gutted out a number of their wins proved that they have the mettle to be a play-off team.
As an ex-FSU fan, I hope they lose. Jameis and all.
Jameis should be in prison and the coach, school et al are the ones putting up with his antics.
My granddaughter is going to Baylor, a team I’ve always liked, so they have my nod. Not that it makes a difference.
You betcha! Roll Tide Roll!
I’m still trying to figure out how TCU tops Baylor despite losing head-to-head. Same record, mostly the same opponents, 2 of the top 3 scoring teams in the NCAA, and a face-to-face game... all else being basically equal, the result should decide... and yet Baylor is several spots BEHIND TCU! SMH
Nothing supports that statement. If State had won, TCU would likely not have jumped into the top four and State would have remained there.
The committee dropped FSU within the top 4 because of their weak showing this year, but it's very unlikely they'd drop them from the top 4 when they are still the only undefeated team.
My preferred system: An 8 team playoff... the 5 power conference champions, the top non-power conference champion, and 2 at-larges (so ND doesn’t cry too loudly while they are still too cowardly to join a conference). The conference games matter more, EVERY team has a chance at the playoff, and still room for 2 non-champions to be wild cards.
8 team playoff
128 teams divided by 8 conferences = 16 teams
16 teams divided by north and south divisions = 8 teams per division
7 games in division, 2 games other division and 2 games outside conference.
Playoff
Conference champs go into an 8 teams playoff as per their national rank
1&8
2&7
3&6
4&5
then the winners play
That's Florida State's problem. Sure they're undefeated, but the perception (if not the truth) is that a lot of those games they won because of sheer luck.
FSU might be able to beat Oregon (in all fairness I've only watched a little bit of Oregon this year, so that's mainly speculation), I doubt very seriously that they could beat TCU or Ohio State and there's no chance of them beating Alabama.
RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER
They usually play a tougher schedule than this year.