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The important thing is the SEC has one or two teams in the championship.

Horst what you said actually helps drive a nail into the coffin of the current post season bowl format.

As it stands, only 4 teams compete for the championship. From a desirable and draft eligible player’s perspective there is little incentive to play in a post season bowl absent national championship implications. They aren’t going to be paid to play in a game that for them is essentially meaningless even though their school will be paid handsomely. So I don’t see any incentive for them to risk injury thus a large paycheck.

On the other hand a playoff with say 16 teams where beginning with the first round each team has an equal chance to eventually play for the title and a ring for each player along with bragging rights there is some incentive for those players to play until their team is eliminated or they win the title game.

Regarding college stars not playing in bowl games due to…………….NFL dreams, the portal, or whatever…

Me wonders how the NIL people will structure future deals with the college football “stars”……………maybe, “no play, no pay” will soon become the norm in contracts…
Ha!

Hmmm……….I dont know what percentage of NIL money comes from corporate sponsors versus private donors.
I would think the corporate ones would want their pound of flesh so to speak.

Basically the player is nothing more than a paid spokesperson. The NIL contract is to attract a player to a specific school.

The sponsor is simply a booster willing to pay to get a player. Once the player’s eligibility is exhausted the incentive to pay them NIL money expires.

Couple that with the fact that anyone worth an NIL deal can be expected to receive a huge pro sports signing bonus within say a year of signing the deal. So I’m certain part of the negotiation includes language exempting the player from post season play if the school isn’t playing for a championship.

It’s now common practice for players to skip post season play. So why sign a deal that risks injury from a booster of school A when they can sell their services, including favorable terms to said deals, to the highest bidder via the portal?

This checks out

Wrong.
The major sin was the fact that the “committee” was fine letting previous school’s in, when THEY were using a backup quarterback, but suddenly it becomes an issue?
Bullchit.
Furthermore, FSU beat the 14 ranked team with their third stringer, and their second stringer is set to come back.
This was strictly a $$$ decision, and a historical SEC bias driven result……historical, because THIS year, they weren’t all that!

Just for chits and giggles, just “switch” positions with FSU and Alabama.
Make Alabama undefeated, but down to third string quarterback, and they win against the 14 ranked team last game of the season.
And FSU is the one loss team, that needed a hail mary the previous week, and wins a close one against Georgia.

Who is the committee going to pick?
Exactly, because they are undefeated afterall….

FSU got fuqed, plain and simple.

Well... what he said is true, so he's not wrong.

What you said is accurate, so neither are you. Both things can be true.

I still think dropping UGA was a crime.

You are getting wise in your old age.

I will have to retract #68.

Best post of the thread.

this is the type of post that keeps me coming back!

Florida's attorney general is taking steps toward a lawsuit over college football playoffs

AP
Florida State coach Mike Norvell lifts the trophy after the team's win over Louisville in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Charlotte, NC.
In a step toward a potential lawsuit, Attorney General Ashley Moody on Tuesday demanded wide-ranging information from the College Football Playoff Selection Committee about Florida State University’s exclusion from the upcoming four-team playoff.

“In Florida, merit matters. FSU proved that they deserved to be in the playoffs,” Moody told The News Service of Florida. “If the selection committee believes that is not the case, and there was truth in that deliberative process and they truly followed their protocols, then we expect them to be cooperative and provide us all of this information.”

The demand, known as an antitrust civil investigative demand, is a way to gather information ahead of a possible lawsuit.

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The document said it is part of an investigation to determine if antitrust violations have occurred through “the nature of possible contracts, conspiracies in restraint of trade or monopolization of trade and commerce relating to anticompetitive effects of the College Football Playoff.”

The FSU football team went undefeated and won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship this fall, but the playoff committee selected Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama to compete for the national championship.

Moody’s request seeks information about such things as votes and vote tallies by committee members during closed-door deliberations; statements relating to the deliberations, including media talking points and interview notes; and committee ethics and conflict-of-interest standards.

In a proposed budget released last seek, Gov. Ron DeSantis included $1 million for any legal action related to FSU being left out of the playoff.

Chris Spencer, director of the governor’s Office of Policy and Budget, told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that DeSantis believes FSU was “wronged” and that there is economic harm to the school.

The football team and involvement in playoff “drives a lot of focus on recruitment for students,” Spencer said. “It also drives other non-athletic related donations that end up supporting the institution and defrays the amount of investment the state has to commit towards these institutions.”


Poor sportsmanship.

I get why they are doing it. But to what end?
A stay, so all of the bowl games stop?
Do they stop the Final Four and the FSU v. Georgia games until this weaves its way through the court?

If the move is let the games play out and they are able to rip the festering scab of corruption and SEC cronyism off, and sanitize the wound, then I’m on board.

Waiting for after Christmas sales to get myself an FSU hoodie.

You should prolly wait until after Georgia smashes FSU………they will be cheap then….

Then again……..if FSU wins??
Ya might not find one…

Edit
Looks like both starting wideouts and the second string QB for FSU not gonna play……….that hurts………a little…
Probably more FSU players will skip it in the coming days.

I think the bowls did the right thing given FSU's struggles without its star quarterback over the last few games.

In my mind, I want to see the best matchups that have the best chance of three individually great games.

I am a Michigan fan and am concerned Alabama just might beat them. I believe that FSU would have little to no chance against either of them right now..

And, someone always gets left out...

Suit might force a settlement for lost compensation, but the state should NOT be spending taxpayer money for this.

I remember years ago Oklahoma State was in the running... most judges/whoever votes ranked OSU 3 to 5.. one judge ranked them like 21 so the average took OSU out of the playoffs... it sucked but nobody cried or threatened lawsuits... just sayin...

Make sure you get him the model with free sneakers or stolen crab legs. (True FSU fans will understand)

There's a reason their nickname is "Free Shoes University".

When Jameis Winston was at FSU, he was caught walking out of a store with a couple pounds of Crab Legs in his pants….

UGA just poured FSU a hot cup of STFU.

63-3? Largest margin of victory. Breaking their own record.

Georgia's players played. Except Bowers... but they did throw in the backups 2nd half. FSU knew they were gonna get the brakes beat off them so had a whole lotta opt outs... damn shame.

GEORGIA should have been pissed about being left out. They had ONE bad game all year and it was at the wrong damn time.

I didnt watch…
I knew it would be ugly……..but it was UGLY.

NIL has ruined college sports……..that said………it needed to happen.
Just wish “they” could have figured out a better way to address the situation.

We will see if next year is any better.

FSU had 29 opt out. The second and third team played. FSU is suing the ACC to leave the conference. Only three bowl games matter. They can cancel the rest.

Because they are a bunch of petulant crybabies. FSU dominated a nothing conference. They didn’t deserve to play in the CFP. The fact that they were undefeated doesn’t matter. It’s like saying Florida A&M should have been in the CFP had they not lost to the mighty South Florida Bulls.

All FSU had to do was win a decisive victory against Louisville in their most important game of the season and the muffed it. If they want to blame someone for not being in the CFP they need to look in the mirror.

Guess I can blame Auburn's loss to Maryland a result of optouts.























Nope, after further review Auburn thought they were playing New Mexico State and got their azzzs handed to them.