From: jecorbett4@gmail.com   
      
   The four best teams is a completely subjective and arbitrary standard. There is   
   no way to measure that. What I think are the four best teams probably won't be   
   what somebody else thinks are the four best teams. Furthermore, if you were   
   to really put the four best teams in the playoff, you might have to put in a   
   great   
   but underachieving team (Ohio State, Georgia?). In some years that could be   
   a team with two or three losses. There is no way to measure the four best.   
      
   What we can measure are accomplishments. By that criteria, Michigan,   
   Washington, FSU, and Texas would get the nod. The first three because they   
   are undefeated Power 5 conference champions and Texas would get the nod   
   over Alabama because they beat them head-t0-head.   
      
   The committee neither selected the four best teams nor the four most   
   accomplished teams. Their choices were political. They didn't want to ruffle   
   feathers by leaving the SEC out. They had to take Alabama over Georgia but   
   they couldn't justify putting Alabama in and leaving Texas out so they took   
   put them both in and gave the finger to FSU. I truly believe that if Georgia   
   had won the SEC, they would have selected the four unbeaten conference   
   champions and left Texas out. Georgia losing cost FSU a spot in the playoffs   
   and there is no way to justify that.   
      
   If I were to grade the CFP committee, I would give them a generous D-minus.   
      
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