[Cecil Terwilliger]

I’m still really torn on this one. As bad as FSU looked with their backup, they still won. And it’s not like they didn’t have some quality wins and looked good doing it for most of the year. How do you start the week at #4, then WIN your conference championship and drop? If the QB thing was such an issue for the committee, they should have dropped them out last week.

On the other hand, they would have opened as 10-15 point dogs to any of the teams who did make the top 4. Even if they “deserved” to make it, does anyone really want to see them get beat by 20 just so we can say we were fair and rewarded them for going undefeated?

Bama lost to a damn good conference champion. It’s not like the committee let in a non conference champion who lost to a G5 or FCS team.

To me the difference between 13-0 and 12-1 is negligible, especially when the lone loss is to a ranked conference champ (or in Texas’ case to a ranked rival).

With all things considered, Bama does look like the better team. It’s a tough call but not the travesty many CFB fans are making it out to be. It was always a coin flip and they chose who provides the better competition over “deserves”.

Although, I also don’t put quite the same value into going undefeated as many old school college fans do.

Come January, no one is gonna care that FSU got left out. Not unless Bama gets destroyed by Michigan and FSU beats Georgia. But as others have mentioned, we won’t see the real Georgia or FSU because so many players will opt out.

And for fun, what if FSU beats Georgia and Bama beats Texas in the NC? Then Florida st is for sure declaring themselves national champs. And it won’t be a joke like when UCF did it.