The CFP Committee has been around for 10 years now. Plenty of time to observe trends and themes.

I was 99.-whatever percent sure that Georgia wasnt making the playoffs after they lost.

Anybody with any half assed understanding of how the Committee has always worked knew that Michigan and Washington were in, so there's 2 teams ahead of Georgia from the start.

When in doubt the CFP committee always goes with the conference champion, so that put Alabama ahead of Georgia.

Texas and Georgia had the same record but Texas was the conference champion and also beat the team that just beat Georgia, so that one was obvious too.

Florida State is the only one with a real gripe. The whole point of a 4 team playoff was supposed to be so an undefeated Power 5 team never gets left out, which happened to Auburn in 2004 and then another team a few years later.

Supposedly injured quarterbacks have always been part of the CFP Committee's formula and supposedly the committee was watching Ohio State really closely after they lost their first and second string quarterbacks in 2015. But then Cardale Jones stepped up in the Big 10 championship game and they scored 60 something points.

That's neat and everything, but Florida State still got screwed, based on precedent and trends.