Coach Norvell has my support. I’m frustrated too, but I’m not hitting the panic button. This team keeps fighting through five years of uphill battles. Consistency matters now more than ever. Keep the heart, and the wins will follow.
They’re yapping all about how good Alabama’s wins are and completely ignoring their embarrassing losses. It’s a clown show. Losses matter. The games on the field matter.
All-State playoff predictor gives SMU a 67% chance of making the playoff.
Let's get this out now: If the committee leaves out an 11-2 SMU in favor of a 9-3 SEC team because SMU played an extra game, we need to just scrap this playoff formula after Year 1 because it's a joke.
@GOOODJ8 While I now fully understand where you are coming from, I feel like we could buy a winning team with $65 Million. Who we replacing him with that is going to turn this team around and win over the next 7 years with all of our booster money gone to fire him?
If UGA had beaten Alabama, the order would’ve been:
1. UGA
2. Michigan
3. Washington
4. FSU
But they HAD to have an SEC team at all
costs. Had to. Well, you can’t put in Bama and leave out the team that beat them by two scores. So, you use Travis injury as an excuse.
“Don’t let them” - definitely helped me change my perspective on it all. Sucks to see something earned not given, but the #Noles had a great season this year and boy has it been fun being along for the ride. 🍊ne More!
They should have kept the slightly misguided BCS standings and then let the Top 4 play to sort out the issues with the original system. There is no reason to allow for human bias.
Playoffs let the best teams prove why the numbers typically don’t lie.
Here it is, what we’ve all been waiting for — the season-ending simulated #BCS rankings. The BCS chooses Florida State at No. 4 by the slimmest of margins. Will the @CFBPlayoff follow suit?
@joshdelph2 2022: Undefeated Big 12 champions: gets wrecked in playoff
Committee: we can’t afford to ever let that happen again.
2023: Let’s put Texas who lost to another average Big 12 team in and see if a quality loss is better than going undefeated.
Statement from Michael Alford, Vice President and Athletics Director, Florida State University
"The consequences of giving in to a narrative of the moment are destructive, far reaching, and permanent. Not just for Florida State, but college football as a whole."
"The argument of whether a team is the 'most deserving OR best' is a false equivalence. It renders the season up to yesterday irrelevant and significantly damages the legitimacy of the College Football Playoff. The 2023 Florida State Seminoles are the epitome of a total TEAM. To eliminate them from a chance to compete for a national championship is an unwarranted injustice that shows complete disregard and disrespect for their performance and accomplishments. It is unforgiveable."
"The fact that this team has continued to close out victories in dominant fashion facing our current quarterback situation should have ENHANCED our case to get a playoff berth EARNED on the field. Instead, the committee decided to elevate themselves and 'make history' today by departing from what makes this sport great by excluding an undefeated Power 5 conference champion for the first time since the advent of the BCS/CFP era that began 25 years ago. This ridiculous decision is a departure from the competitive expectations that have stood the test of time in college football."
"Wins matter. Losses matter. Those that compete in the arena know this. Those on the committee who also competed in the sport and should have known this have forgotten it. Today, they changed the way success is assessed in college football, from a tangible metric - winning on the field - to an intangible, subjective one. Evidently, predicting the future matters more."
"For many of us, today's decision by the committee has forever damaged the credibility of the institution that is the College Football Playoff. And, saddest of all, it was self-inflicted. They chose predictive competitiveness over proven performance; subjectivity over fact. They have become a committee of prognosticators. They have abandoned their responsibility by discarding their purpose – to evaluate performance on the field."
"Our players, coaches, and fans - as well as all those who love this sport - deserve better. The committee failed college football today."
FSU fans are angry. Michael Alford is angry. Jim Phillips is angry. All justified.
But man, I feel so, so, so damn bad for those FSU players who have fought, bled and sacrificed to win every damn game and they don't get a shot at a title because of a committee.
devastated. heartbroken. In so much disbelief rn, I wish my leg broke earlier in the season so y’all could see this team is much more than the quarterback. I thought results matter. 13-0 and this roster matches up across any team in those top 4 rankings. I am so sorry. Go Noles!
The reality is the SEC is the weakest conference. 7-9 vs rest of P5.
Their champ took an ass beating to the Big 12 Champ.
Every other conference took care of business.
SEC is out of the playoffs. Period. Anything else would be more manipulative collusion.