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The College Football Playoff Selection Committee had been consistent over the first nine years of the event’s existence: Undefeated Power Five conference teams make the playoff; one-loss teams that played each other are ranked winner ahead of loser.
However, 2023 was an unprecedented college football season. We entered Championship Week with four undefeated teams and four others with one loss — all making up the top eight of the CFP Rankings. That is the most ever. Also, three of the four teams with one loss had fallen to one of the other teams in that group.
There was little separation among the top eight teams, five of which won conference championships over the weekend.
Florida State was left out of the playoff despite finishing 13-0 as the ACC champion and being ranked in the top four all but one week of the season (Nov. 21). Instead, the College Football Playoff will consist of No. 1 Michigan facing No. 4 Alabama in the Rose Bowl semifinal and No. 2 Washington battling No. 3 Texas in the Sugar Bowl semifinal.
The committee felt the Seminoles on Dec. 3 were not the same team without star quarterback Jordan Travis, who was injured during a throwaway game against North Alabama on Nov. 18. FSU beat Florida with backup QB Tate Rodemaker, but he missed the ACC Championship Game with Louisville, a 16-6 win helmed by freshman third-stringer Brock Glenn.
“Florida State is a different team than they were through the first 11 weeks,” CFP Selection Committee chairman Boo Corrigan said. “Coach [Mike] Norvell, their players, their fans — an incredible season. But as you look at who they are as a team right now without Jordan Travis, without the offensive dynamic that he brings to it, they are a different team and the committee voted Alabama four…
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Author : Jerry Palm
Publish date : 2023-12-03 23:33:38
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