Yikes! College Football And The Best

 

 

 I haven't given my opinion on the selection of Alabama into the College Football Playoff for several reasons.

One, it really doesn't matter.  Really.  I could say Florida State, as does Liberty University, deserves to be in the playoffs. But I don't have a vote on the matter.

Two, if you are looking for a logical approach to determining "the best", College Football is the last place you should look.

 In the old days, they determined the best by two polls. One poll was from "the coaches," and the other was from sports reporters.  Heck, one year, Richard Nixon got involved, which Joe Paterno complained about until his dying day.

Then, they devised something called The Bowl Championship Series (BCS). I never quite figured out how they came upon their rankings, except it reminded me of a boiling cauldron surrounded by witches.

 One year, Alabama won "The National Championship"  when they didn't even win their conference or even their division in the conference.

The brilliant minds then came up with the College Football Playoff system, which seems to works better than the BCS, but then again, fly swatters work better than the BCS.

Here's what happened.  Michigan, which beat the might Punters of The University of Iowa last Saturday, is the number one seed, despite cheating just a tiny bit.  The second seed went to the University of Washington (or "Warshington" as Lee Coroso calls it).  

The third seed went to The University of Texas, who lost to Oklahoma. The fourth seed went to The University of Alabama who lost to Texas in September.

Left out was Florida State University who didn't lose to anybody and the back-to-back champion Georgia Bulldogs who lost to Alabama on Saturday.

Bama lost at home to Texas by ten points.  Texas lost to Oklahoma by four points.  Georgia lost to Bama by three points and got booted out of the playoff.

Again, Florida State did not lose a game.

However, they did lose their first and second string quarterbacks and beat Louisville which wasn't as impressive as Bama beating Georgia.

It broke my heart that Georgia was given the gate and hear the laughter from the Georgia Tech side of the river.  "Ha, Ha! You lost and we have more astronaut alumni than you do."  But what are you going to do?

Georgia could have made it simple and you know, beat Alabama, But that didn't happen and so their fate was left in the hands of others. Still, what Georgia has done in the past three seasons ain't chicken feed. 

Florida State makes a compelling case that winning their conference is just as important as beating Georgia. It is just not as important as beating Louisville with a third string quarterback.

The Playoff Selection Committee was commissioned to find the four best teams.  They found them. I can see any one of those selected winning the CFP.  I'm sorry, I just don't see Florida State beating any one of those teams.

So, College Football got it right, but just did it in their typical clumsy, ham-handed way.  Next year, there will be a 12 team playoff. Florida State just picked the wrong year to become FLORIDA STATE again.