From: constance@duxmail.com   
      
   On 2023-12-07, joe@mich.com  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 07:25:52 -0800 (PST), JE Corbett    
   wrote:   
   >   
   > . So why should Alabama and Texas have jumped FSU? It was a   
   >>travesty.   
   >   
   > Because in their last games of the season, their conference championships,   
   >   
   > Alabama beat the #1 ranked team, a team that had won 29 straight and the   
   last two NCs.   
   >   
   > Texas crushed OK St with almost 700 yards total offense   
   >   
   > FSU struggled agianst Louisville, a team that had just lost their previous   
   game to a 5 loss team   
   >   
   > Those were the last games before the final choices, and all 3 games were on   
   national tv for all to see.   
   > FSU needed a better game to keep their position. The concern was that FSU   
   was not the same team   
   > they had been, and that game confirmed it, while Texas and Alabama looked   
   vey strong. Might have   
   > had a better chance had the game not been nationally televised in prime time.   
      
   The fact that they are tasked with picking the four best teams put FSU out of   
   it.   
      
   If Alabama had lost to UGA, it would have been easy to leave Texas out and   
   go with the four unbeatens. But when you have to put a 1-loss team in, and   
   you can't realistically shun the by-far-strongest conference, the SEC, FSU   
   is the odd team out.   
      
   All FSU has to do is beat UGA worse than Alabama did, and they can have   
   a world-class whining session that a lot of people will buy into. But if   
   they get toasted by UGA, they'll fade into the land of very small asterisks.   
      
   --   
   The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and   
   dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if   
   it had nothing else in the universe to do. -- Galileo   
      
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