The College Football Playoff Selections Are a Total Joke

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00:03 Here's the fix for the college football playoff.

00:05 In September, before a game is played, project who's going to get there.

00:09 Take the four best teams based on the odds.

00:11 Let's fast forward and play in January.

00:13 Sound good, Donnie?

00:13 >> Well, I mean, technically, if you started this season with Brock Lennon

00:18 quarterback, Florida State might have fired Mike Norvell and

00:20 say, man, this guy can't coach.

00:22 >> Might have. >> That's just a play it with.

00:23 >> Might. >> That's the way it is.

00:24 >> Might.

00:24 >> Yeah. >> All of it is questions.

00:27 All of it is speculation.

00:29 What if not, is playing 13 football games and winning 13 football games.

00:35 That's my point, Donnie.

00:36 We look at the odds here on a sports betting network that project and

00:41 forecast what is expected and supposed to happen.

00:46 But the reason the word underdog is in our lexicon is because

00:51 things that are not anticipated often do happen, and we celebrate.

00:56 So what was Florida State expected to do after losing their starting quarterback,

01:02 Jordan Travis, probably lose one of the football games that they played in?

01:07 They did not.

01:08 They won, both of them.

01:09 What was Florida State supposed to do?

01:12 Should we have not heard from Jordan Travis despite the gruesome leg injury?

01:16 Should we have maybe all said, Jordan Travis is listed as V today.

01:20 He could be back by the start of 2024 to play in the college football playoff

01:25 semifinal, would they have made it then if that was the case, Donnie right side?

01:29 Because it seems that an injury to one player was the only difference

01:35 that left Florida State outside of the college football playoff.

01:38 Not a passing defense that ranked top ten in the country,

01:41 that held Jack Plummer to a terrible QBR as you just said.

01:46 Not a rushing defense that held things down when they needed to against Jowar,

01:50 Jordan and Isaac Arendo, who combined to average 183 yards per game for

01:55 the cards this year.

01:57 Not a running back in Trey Benson that ran for

01:59 three touchdowns against their bitter SEC rival in the swamp in Florida

02:04 to end out the regular season.

02:05 None of that mattered.

02:06 An injury to one, a quarterback, was the only difference.

02:10 What would you have liked, Donnie, sitting there in your ivory tower?

02:13 This is not a shot at you, but what would you have liked Florida State to do in

02:16 their final two games without Jordan Travis?

02:19 >> They would have had to win impressively.

02:20 That's what they would have done.

02:21 They would have had to, again, if Rodemaker threw for

02:24 300 yards against one of the worst defenses in college football,

02:28 my argument would have changed.

02:30 Even if Rodemaker got knocked out last week with just a concussion,

02:32 because we knew we'd be back.

02:34 But Rodemaker was terrible in that game against Florida.

02:36 And then the follow up with that with Brock Lund even worse than Rodemaker was.

02:40 That's what happens.

02:41 But by the way, here's my preference also.

02:43 Like yourself, Ben, you love college football ball season.

02:46 I can't stand it.

02:47 I've railed against it for almost 15 years now.

02:50 It should go away.

02:51 So shouldn't we be having, hey, Florida State, the sky's not falling.

02:54 You're going to the Orange Bowl, baby.

02:55 You're playing Georgia National Stage.

02:57 We still get to watch them play again.

02:59 So we should be happy with that, right?

03:01 Ball season is here.

03:02 >> No. >> They can get their vindication

03:05 against Georgia in a big time ball game, cuz that's what we love balls for, right?

03:09 >> Next year, Donnie, in a college football playoff when Florida State would host

03:14 the G5 highest ranked team, that was Liberty, by the way,

03:17 who was a perfect 13 and 0 despite the worst strength of schedule in college

03:21 football and yet was awarded for what they had done in winning football games,

03:26 which is very different than Florida State being left out.

03:29 Craziness there.

03:29 Donnie, talk about watching football games on Saturday night.

03:32 The number one team in the country that will host the Rose Bowl in the college

03:36 football playoff, did you see how many yards they put up against Iowa?

03:40 >> No, I mean, I watched the football game, yes.

03:44 And by the way, come on, you can't get the 27 and a half and

03:47 clear that team total, Michigan, that's what I'm most upset about.

03:50 >> Right, Florida State outgained Michigan, and this is no knock on

03:53 the Wolverines, and the Iowa Hawkeyes have a better defense than that of Louisville.

03:58 But if we're going to use yardage output as the determining key evaluation metric

04:03 to hold a team out of the college football playoff, then why is Michigan number one?

04:08 JJ McCarthy hasn't thrown for over 150 yards in four straight weeks,

04:12 even in their biggest game of the year.

04:14 He didn't attempt to pass in the second half against Penn State, and

04:18 yet they're in, no questions asked.

04:20 Michigan is deserving of it.

04:23 Michigan should be there.

04:24 They're a 13 and 0, power five, undefeated conference champion,

04:28 as is Florida State.

04:31 That's my only point, Donnie.

04:32 If we're going to use yardage, optics, and beauty pageantries,

04:36 then Michigan shouldn't be there.

04:37 Washington was a nine and a half point underdog on Friday night in Las Vegas.

04:41 Just pregame, they shouldn't have been there.

04:43 They should have got their doors blown off by Oregon.

04:45 Oh, wait.

04:46 Washington's been booked as an underdog four times in the last two years

04:50 under head coach Kalen DeBoer, when teams expected them not to win a football game.

04:54 And what have they done?

04:56 Won outright all four times.

04:59 Because at the end of the day, the final score and the result of a football game

05:03 should weigh most importantly in our lives and how we evaluate football programs.

05:08 And yet yesterday, it did not.

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