They need to take it to Gorgia (that should also be in the CFP) and beat the snot out of them showing the world that FSU is indeed the champion causing the AP and Coaches polls to vote for them.
Looks like FSU is going to whine. They need to watch the movie RUDY.
Top tier college football is not just a business, but it is a lucrative, high-stakes, cutthroat kind of business. The loss of playoff seating will cost FSU millions of dollars in potential revenue, and fairness aside, the precise reasons for that loss properly attract the attention of Florida’s prosecutors. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that bribery or extortion in one form or another was involved, and if so, that would be criminal under both federal and state law.
The Florida AG reeks of not knowing the English language.
The bowl game between FSU and Georgia has no meaning anymore, whoever wins proves nothing, both teams have significant starters that elected to sit out the game, avoiding injury that would affect their NFL draft status.
Outside of the playoff teams, the bowl games have taken on a new level of meaning nothing, when the teams on the field are usually missing major parts of their team.
"No rational person or college football fan can look at this situation and not question the result"
Likewise no rational person could imagine Stanford and Cal in the ACC or Washington and Oregon in the Big Ten. Or a conference continuing to call itself the Big Ten even though it has many more teams than that.
Similarly, no rational person could see the NCAA adopt NIL after years of fining and punishing teams for alumni bribes to players, and after all the money provided to football players via scholarships that they don't appear to appreciate.
And no rational person could see the adoption of the "portal" making whatever school loyalty there used to be a thing of the past. What kind of scholars come out of a system where players can move from school to school so easily? Do all of the schools have African American Studies programs that are in sync?
And finally, no rational person could see the NCAA dumping the bowl system for a playoff system that gives college players an incentive to move up to the NFL for fear of getting injured in one of the increasing number of games, and making it difficult to divide up the TV revenues with a few teams playing many more games than the rest.
I believe Georgia has a big edge even though the Georgia transfer portal is busier than the Star Trek episode Shore Leave (Season 1 Episode 15)
I understand that Florida State is upset, but they are not as good as they say they are. FSU will lose to Georgia. Guaranteed.
Oh please. She’s a politician. She’s just pandering. Nothing will come of it. Whatever anybody’s objections, everybody signed up for the current system. We could have had a 12 team playoff starting this year but the ACC objected. Yes, that’s right. fsu’s own conference torpedoed it.
By the way, where were these objections in 1993 when once beaten fsu was placed in the national title game ahead of undefeated West Virginia?
Where were the objections when once beaten fsu was placed in the national title game in 2000 ahead of one loss miami who beat them head to head?
Or is it only a problem when fsu comes out on the short end of the stick rather than somebody else?
Go back to whatever passes for governing and stay out of sports.
You (Fl. Government) call yourself conservatives then try acting like one. You have no place in this matter.
The problem here is that they CAN play like a champion and and still not become champions.
FWIW, Georgia PROBABLY is the better team. Both Florida State and Texas faced surprisingly poor conference schedules. Florida State went undefeated; Texas beat Alabama, but lost to Oklahoma.
Florida State went undefeated and still got bumped; they can be mad, and that doesn’t mean that they can’t also play with great heart. And frankly, your comments make you sound like one of those half-drunk uncles that have to get kicked out of the Little League games.
Illegal aliens pouring across the southern border, with the liberals creating new names for them in order to avoid calling them illegal aliens.
Corruption all throughout government, with no serious attempt to control it.
Thousands of people dying from Fentanyl poisoning, and no serious attempt to cut off the drug trade.
And we are concerned about which amateur football teams play in a playoff, where the participants are selected by vote instead of some massive elaborate merit system that would probably still leave somebody out.
Thank God the real NAZIS were defeated years ago. We wouldn't know how to deal with them now.
What’s to investigate? It’s all ‘bout da Benjamins, baby! Las Vegas has a firm grip on all college and pro sports. You see it on virtually every commercial break.
FSU played a weak schedule, so weak, that it is surprising they did not play Smith College.
Florida, you should elect an AG that actually understands the English language. Impartiality means equal treatment, so saying something “reeks of impartiality, so we demanding answers” is... well... STUPID.
Also, it’s none of the government’s business. There’s only 4 spots in the playoffs, which is dumb, but that’s what it is, so there’s always going to be a team left out that a lot of people think should be in.
It’s not a playoff or a championship if it gets decided in a conference room, and if some teams have no chance even if they win every single game.
Obama was a big supporter of this “national champion” fiction. The old Bowl system was better for the country, the schools and better entertainment.
Too bad Ron DeDumazz couldn’t take time out of his pathetic presidential campaign to fight for FSU. 😣
Virtually ALL of the myriad of objective ranking systems in this sport came up with the SAME final 4 that the committee chose.
It will be EASY to defend in court. What will be hard is, trying prove FSU deserved to be considered one of the “Top 4” teams.
Gee I sure am glad this new way of doing bowl games has ended all controversy
Well...this type of rhetoric didn’t age well.