“Undefeated FSU was robbed.”
The Disney Corporation owns/controls ESPN, ABC and the SEC network. Those networks are paying the SEC the largest $$$ amount in the history of sports - any sports - and so naturally the SEC expects to have at least one participating team in the CFP. On Saturday that team could no longer be Georgia which put the CFP in a quandary. They had to install Alabama, but how? Luckily for them, Texas has been playing magnificent football for several weeks. So since Georgia was now out, BOTH Texas and Alabama ascended to occupy the final two spots. It had to be that way as they never could have justified moving up Alabama and not Texas due to the road victory by the Longhorns in September. All four spots were then filled, icing out the Seminoles. If you think that there wasn’t enormous pressure placed on the CFP by ESPN/ABC/SEC Network/SEC then you probably also believe the Warren Report.
Oh, I believe everything you have laid out. The 'Noles can hold their heads high, still.
"HONOR, NOT HONORS"
Hast thou for honor laid ambition down?
Honor, itself, shall be thy sure reward,
A guard more certain than a flaming sword,—
A crown—above a crown.
Since it is honor stays thy lofty quest,
Welcome the high defeat thy spirit dares!
Aye, wear it proudly as a victor wears
The star upon his breast!