The committee let the bama Texas game dictate the whole playoff

Well, to start with, they are conference champions.

It's pretty ironic that I was sitting on a dreary September night drinking and cheering for Texas to beat Bama. Had that game not happened we would have lost to an undefeated team and probably gotten in

Yall really are some braindead losers on this board if you don't know why Texas got in over UGA.

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They lost to Oklahoma

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And Alabama would have lost to Auburn if not for a Hail Mary on the last play, so what's your point?

I've seen people try to justify that as "well it's the Iron Bowl, anything can happen" as if the red river shootout doesn't have the same dynamic.

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The committee let the bama Texas game dictate the whole playoff

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How many other games featured two P5 conference champions? Georgia got the short end of the stick but they had their opportunity. The committee chose the right 4 teams, move the frick on.

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Why does Texas deserve it over uga?
They lost to Oklahoma

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Criteria from CFP Selection Committee Protocol (LINK )

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The selection committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering:

* Conference championships won,

* Strength of schedule,

* Head-to-head competition,

* Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory), and,

* Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.

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Criteria #1: Conference championships won
Texas won a conference title; UGA did not.

Criteria #2: Strength of schedule
Texas #2; UGA #45

Criteria #3: Head-to-head competition
N/A

Criteria #4: Comparative outcomes of common opponents
Texas defeated Alabama; Georgia lost to Alabama

Criteria #5: Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance
Could write up some stuff for each but ultimately a wash. Each have injuries during the season and banged up players heading into the playoffs. It is a long season in a full contact sport, nobody is 100% healthy.



So, yeah, it is pretty obvious why they didn't make the field over Texas.

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Why does Texas deserve it over uga? They lost to Oklahoma

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As bad as the Big 12 is, the ACC is the worst power 5 conference.

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Why does Texas deserve it over uga?
They lost to Oklahoma

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Left out of the conversation is that a loss late in the season has pretty much always been treated as worse than a loss earlier in the season. There aren't many exceptions to this. Georgia did get in with a late in the season loss a couple of years ago, but that was one of those exceptions that prove the rule.

That One Game In September

Alabama beat the boss
Florida State never lost
Ohio State only lost at #1 away
30 win streak was 1 away
Longhorns had the worst loss of all
But don’t you remember before the Fall?

That warm summer day is all I can remember
It’s all that really matters - that one game in September


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This poem is to commemorate one of the greatest groupthink caused screw ups in college football history: With hardly any real debate or scrutiny, Texas was given a higher ranking than 4 teams who all had the same or better record, all who had more top 15 wins, and all who didn’t lose to a two loss team. The greatest injustice being that Texas was ranked higher than undefeated ACC Champion, Florida State, taking away Florida State’s rightful place in the College Football Playoffs.

It is the author’s opinion that a great delusion was subscribed to in mass, that delusion being that Texas’ win over Alabama somehow earned Texas a “free loss,” the avoidance of scrutiny, and essentially an automatic spot in the playoffs. Let this season serve as a reminder on how the mass adoption of faulty assumptions can result in great injustice.

3 days ago, everyone here was moaning about the SEC being down this year, and most here were in agreement that FSU got shafted.

I am not arguing the validity of either of those points, but today, UGA beats the living dogshit out of a team that was a shell of itself all season and all of a sudden the SEC is not only not down, and that not only do we deserve a team in the CFP, we deserve TWO teams.

And should Alabama lose to Michigan (they wont), the cycle will start all over again.

The SEC Rant in all its glory.