Fight over College Football Playoff spills into Senate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The fight over the College Football Playoff selection committee’s decision to snub undefeated Florida State University and pick the University of Alabama is spilling into the Senate, pitting Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) against his Republican colleagues from Alabama.

Scott, who attended the Florida State Seminoles’ last national championship victory in 2013 when he was governor, is demanding full transparency on the selection committee’s decision to bump Florida State from the national playoffs in favor of Alabama, which lost to Texas earlier in the season.

For Scott, the secret deliberations to deny Florida State the chance to win another national championship is the latest example of unfair decisions being made in America by unaccountable people behind closed doors.

Scott says Florida State “did everything they were supposed to do” by going 13-0 on the season and beating two highly-ranked teams, Louisiana State University (LSU) and Louisville.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fight-over-college-football-playoffs-103000241.html

Priorities.

[hlthe2b]

1. Grow up, people. Disappointments happen. Do they think Georgia fans are not likewise disappointed?

Hopefully, with next year's total restructuring of the playoffs, this won't be an issue in the future. In the meantime, PERSPECTIVE...

[lees1975]

6. But Georgia lost.

One of the standards that the committee claims leads to an unbiased decision was that if a power 5 conference team had an undefeated season, that would be a determining factor above other factors. They've used that argument to justify picking Clemson, from the same conference, with a similar schedule.

It's still going to be an issue because a committee will still be making the selections instead of competition on the field. And that committee will still be biased, based on money and value of potential playoff games, rather than on the actual sports competition on the field.

Georgia lost to Alabama. Alabama lost to Texas, who got in as a conference champion with one loss. When Alabama beat Georgia, that should have sealed FSU's spot by the committee's own standards.

[hlthe2b]

12. Why start an argument when the point of this whole thread is how stupid this is?

Take it elsewhere as I did not attempt to do so. Or if you must, argue with him:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/what-about-georgia-bulldogs-title-reign-might-be-over-but-the-dynasty-is-still-alive/ar-AA1l75kq

[exboyfil]

10. Georgia has less of a case though

Since they lost their Conference Championship game.

Of course the way things are going it appears there are only going to be two superconferences going forward (Big 10 and SEC).

It is a big mess. Still politicians should have nothing to do with it.

[NCIndie]

2. More posturing. The Republicans in Congress never stop pandering to their base.

The committee explained their decision at length. Gratefully, this will be over in a month or so.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. As a Bama fan, thrilled. But even i see its very weird going over FSU

[FSogol]

4. Fixed it for you: "Whining over College Football Playoff spills into Senate"

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Nothing Better To Do?

They're arguing over minor league football.
What's next? Senators from Iowa & Illinois arguing over who the real "Cubs" are?

[Prairie Gates]

7. The dumbest timeline...

We're in it.

[Deuxcents]

8. They're looking for budget cuts to fund Ukraine and here it is!

In the real world, if you don’t perform at your job, you’re fired and these people in the House and Senate have not only been not performing, they’ve been off the job for recess, breaks, vacations and are up for another holiday. They need to go home and stay there and watch football

[walkingman]

9. When all else fails go to your Congressman or Senator. They will be outraged.

[petronius]

11. Wow, finally something in the Senate that Tuberville is

qualified to speak on…

[gratuitous]

13. Paging Grantland Rice

Please knock some of these empty heads together.

(Grantland Rice was a sportswriter during the early 20th century who also wrote poetry and verse. His most famous line is "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game." )

[Celerity]

14. So, I am lifelong real football (what most here call soccer) fangirl, but I am a quick study. Florida State

lost their star quarterback, Jordan Travis, who is out for the season with a leg injury.

Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis says leg injury will end his season with No. 5 Seminoles

https://apnews.com/article/jordan-travis-quarterback-florida-state-season-ending-injury-a71d0a1981a3410e0ac897b51b0e30a6

If he had not played at all this season, they perhaps would not even be undefeated, and now, without him, all 4 of the teams who made the cut would likely beat Florida State, sans Jordan, like a drum. Florida State's schedule was very weak compared to the other 4 teams, as FSU is in a weak (especially with Clemson having a poor team this year) conference.

All that said, it is a fucking HUGE misuse of Senate resources to waste time on this shit. Fuck Rethugs.

[3catwoman3]

15. Interesting Div 3 women's soccer story.

There is a conference called the University Athletic Association - Wash U, University of Rochester (NY), Case Western Reserve, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, U of Chicago, Emory, and Brandeis.

In the Div 3 post season tournament, 7 out of the 8 UAA teams got into the conference. 7!!!!. 3 of the 7 only won 3 of their 7 regular season conference games, and another 3 only won ONE of their regular season conference games.

So 10% of the 64 teams that got into the post-season tournament were from a single conference, and 6 of them didn’t even have winning records. How’s that for unfair?

[Takket]

16. its amazing rethugs have an image of being "tough" and "gritty"

when in reality all they do is whine and complain about EVERYTHING

[Initech]

17. We really do live in the worst timeline.