From Chuck Todd to Ron DeSantis, The Political World Rages About Florida State’s Playoff Snub: ‘Never Shoulda Outsourced the Playoff Lobbying to a Super PAC’
Just like the sports world, much of the political world is up in arms about undefeated Florida State being left out of the college football playoff.
In a scathing post on X/Twitter, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) denounced the exclusion of the Seminoles from the four-team tournament to determine college football’s champion.
What we learned today is that you can go undefeated and win your conference championship game, but the College Football Playoff committee will ignore these results.
Congratulations to @FSUFootball on an outstanding season and winning the ACC championship!
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) December 3, 2023
“What we learned today is that you can go undefeated and win your conference championship game, but the College Football Playoff committee will ignore these results,” DeSantis wrote.
Others in the political world reacted similarly.
So just to be clear, FSU goes undefeated but gets held out of the CFP because they didn’t beat anybody, but a few rungs down the ladder, Liberty jumps SMU for the last NY6 spot… as an undefeated team who didn’t beat anybody. Got it. Totally consistent.
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) December 3, 2023
Send the College Football Playoff committee results backs to the state legislatures
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 3, 2023
Never shoulda outsourced the playoff lobbying to a super pac…
Really, tho, a tough go of late for the twin pillars of the Tallahassee economy https://t.co/RsIzfkmCOu
— Jonathan Martin (@jmart) December 3, 2023
Ironically, the most irate observer from the political world is NBC’s Chuck Todd — a well-known superfan of the University of Miami, a longtime Florida State rival.
“Leaving out an undefeated from a Power 5 is ridiculous,” Todd wrote — referring to the fact that Florida State is the first undefeated Power 5 team in history to be snubbed from the playoff. “Plenty of teams are better if healthy, but winning when NOT healthy is a lot harder.”
Leaving out an undefeated from a Power 5 is ridiculous. Plenty of teams are better if healthy, but winning when NOT healthy is a lot harder. This feels like pandering to the SEC, the conference that created the conference realignment craziness. You play to WIN THE GAME, not the…
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) December 3, 2023
It’s so obvious that CFP didn’t have the guts to leave out the two most financially powerful schools, pure and simple. Let’s flip the script. An undefeated Texas team loses their top two QBs and barely beats OK State, do they get left out?
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) December 3, 2023
Ok. Final post on this topic: the committee has to explain why it ever had FSU ranked in the top four these last two weeks. They had one criteria for the last two weeks and another this week. There’s no consistency to their decisions. CFP simply hoped FSU would lose. Pathetic
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) December 3, 2023
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