The College Football Playoff committee made a shocking decision this week when they chose the Alabama Crimson Tide for the playoff field over the Florida State Seminoles even though the Seminoles were undefeated and Alabama was not. And Florida Sen. Rick Scott is not happy about it.
Following the committee’s decision, Rick Scott sent a letter to committee chairman Boo Corrigan calling for answers and transparency from the committee.
“There are countless other concerns and arguments that could be voiced here, but the main issue is the justified perception of an unfair system that has wrongly disregarded the known strengths of an undefeated team over the speculated impact of losing a single player,” Scott wrote in his letter. “While I doubt the committee’s decision will be reversed to rightly reward FSU for its hard-fought, undefeated season as the committee has done for other undefeated Power Five conference champions in recent years, I do believe that total transparency regarding how this decision was reached would do tremendous good for the committee, the CFP as a whole, and the college football community.”
The committee’s decision marks the first time that an undefeated Power Five conference champion has ever been excluded from the playoff field.
