Doesn’t matter when it was they lost or what changed since. CFP don’t like rematches of regular season games. Only way A&M get in is if they’re #3 and play Clemson.
Bad phrasing in my original post.
Somewhat related, anti-CFP article.
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Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Oklahoma have combined to take 20 out of 28 possible spots since the playoff began in 2014.
If Clemson and Alabama end up meeting in the national championship, it would be their fifth playoff meeting in the past six years.
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That the committee actually says it "respects" the undefeated Group of 5 teams it is charged with evaluating smacks of so much hypocrisy you can only laugh.
There is no respect and never has been. Look at how the committee treated undefeated UCF in 2017. The Knights, the only undefeated team that year, finished 12th overall in the final rankings behind five two-loss teams and one three-loss team. It's no wonder they declared themselves national champions. There was no way the power structure would let them prove it legitimately. The following year, after another undefeated regular-season run, UCF was ranked eighth -- but only behind two two-loss teams that time!
Former Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier saw the same system rewarding only Power 5 programs during the BCS era. He once told me, "Had we beaten Nevada in [2010], we would have had a chance, and that was under the BCS system and this was after we had gone to Congress and put a little pressure on it. Now, there's no chance, in my opinion, for a Group of 5. They can go undefeated all they want, but that committee is not going to let them in the top four. I don't see that happening, and I think that's a shame."
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https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ly-predictable
No real surprise a committee comprised of employees of power 5 schools pick their own schools. They don’t even attempt to be neutral.