Dude FAU was 10th in the AAC. Unless you’re doing the thing on fanbase attractiveness upthread
CFB 2023 Conference Championships: A thread enjoying five major conference championship games for the last time
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At least 2 teams and fanbases were going to be outraged no matter the decision. This one seems to be the least horrible from a competitive standpoint for the final 4 given all of the available options.
Savage takedown
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39033710/cfp-anger-index-unpacking-outrage-florida-state-snub-2023
ACC had winning record head to head vs SEC this season
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39033710/cfp-anger-index-unpacking-outrage-florida-state-snub-2023
ACC had winning record head to head vs SEC this season
Tostitos marketing executives cannot be too happy. And you can’t get more opposite schools.
Bowl games are a crapshoot because opt outs but if Oregon tries they can beat Liberty by 60.
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And Bama got in despite losing that big nonconference game. I think this year’s results are anomalous, but if you want to draw broader lessons, they would tell you that scheduling big-time OOC opponents is a good move.
I agree. Despite all of the committee talking points, if Georgia wins FSU would have been in. The Committee was not keeping the SEC winner out, period. However, they were forced to put Texas in once Bama won.
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It's only sport, and amateur sport at that, but this decision is a travesty. I really can't see how this can be justified. It should have nothing to do with the QB injury, or any injury. It doesn't matter if FSU gets killed in the semifinal game. By all pre-existing rules, they simply earned the right to be there. So let them play. Of course there are 1-loss teams that feel they deserve to be in, but are left out. This happens every year. But leaving out an undefeated team from a top conference, after scheduling a tough non-conference opponent in September, ostensibly just to avoid such debates, flaunts the principles of fair play and of sport in general.
I'm proud of FSU, and disgusted but not surprised at the power brokers of college football.
Edit: that should read Travisty, amirite?
I'm proud of FSU, and disgusted but not surprised at the power brokers of college football.
Edit: that should read Travisty, amirite?
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I don't know what SOS means when you are talking about college football. Playing 12 games against Tulane is obviously a stronger SOS than playing 12 games against Northwestern, but any of these very top teams could probably go 12-0 either way.
Who did FSU beat? LSU, Duke, and Louisville? LOL.
If FSU had played Texas's or Bama's schedule, they would have had a loss or two. Hard to cry for them.
My argument is that it doesn't matter exactly who they beat, it's that they beat all of them. They are in the ACC, which isn't a mid-major. They should be in on merit, like the other 2 undefeated teams. As soon as we look at schedule strength, or injuries, or recent play, we are missing the point.
And my point is that Texas, Bama, and a line of other teams would have gone undefeated against the same schedule. Their big wins were against Louisville, LSU, and Duke. I don't have my eyeglasses on -- we talking in basketball? It's not a super impressive 13-0. Jeez, they should have lost to Clemson and they almost lost to Boston College. Boston Awful College.
