By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
AUSTIN, Texas |...Horns in, Horns in!!! A nod from the NCAA's College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee has the Texas Longhorns playing for the National Championship. They now join Michigan, Washington and Alabama in the four-team two-game tournament.
The news came Sunday.
Out are season-long #1 Georgia and undefeated Florida State. Both had been earmarked for the football Final Four. Georgia's loss - its only one of the season - to Alabama on Saturday was enough to see them lose out on the big-money payout.
Florida State, it says here, suffered from what is commonly known as "strength of schedule;" that is, it played lesser foes than the Longhorns and Alabama.
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This from espn.com: [ Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama have been selected by the College Football Playoff committee to vie for the national championship.
That means Florida State (No. 5) and Georgia (No. 6), two teams with compelling arguments for playoff inclusion, are instead on the outside looking in.
The Wolverines and Huskies as undefeated conference champions were considered virtual shoo-ins to make the CFP. Michigan is in the playoff for the third straight year. Washington, on the other hand, has been in the CFP only once before, losing in the semifinals in the 2016 season. ]
Howls will come from Tallahassee as early as this afternoon. Georgia had it all in its hands, and lost it in one game, its season-ending SEC championship loss to Alabama.
For Texas, it is a return to the Big Time after almost 12 years of mediocrity. It will face the undefeated Washington Huskies in the semi-finals, with Bama taking on undefeated Michigan.
It'll be Party Time in Austin today...
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Go Horns!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat are the odds of seeing Texas and Alabama in the finals?!!! Pay per view, bro!!!!!
ReplyDeleteguess what, everyone. the so called playoff isn't an effort to get the best 4 teams into it. it's an effort to get the biggest names into it. fsu out. alabama and texas in. texas already beat alabama. why is alabama in, then? it's not like it was a close game, either. they handled alabama like saban's team was made up of high school underclassmen. but in the end, fsu just doesn't bring the money that bama and the horns do, so, fsu out, texas and alabama in. it was never about the best 4 teams. and it won't be next year, when it's 12 teams. they'll find a way to get 4 sec teams in, if it kills them.
ReplyDeleteFlorida State is raising all kinds of Hell after being left out of the playoffs. They went undefeated. I still say the four best teams were selected. TV has a lot to do with it. The NCAA knows that. They know that there is more drama in the games to be featured than in any Florida State would have played in. This sort of post-selection bitching by teams left out comes around every year, doesn't it? Yes, it does...
ReplyDeleteThe committee represents Big Government and how America works now. Michigan, Washington and FSU earned the top 3 spots based on their undefeated seasons against Power 5 schedules. Instead the committee comes in with their own agenda and interferes when they don't need to. Texas selection is right. based on their victory over Bama in Bama. It should have been so simple.
ReplyDeleteIf you're on the selection committee, and you're watching Florida State struggle to produce any offense against Louisville on Saturday, you have to ask yourself: Is this really the same team going into the playoffs that it was for the first 10 weeks of the season? The answer was no.
DeleteEcho that.
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