From: mianderson79@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 9:58:27 AM UTC-6, JE Corbett wrote:   
   > 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.    
      
   I completely agree with this, and it wasn't talked about enough.     
      
   Alabama being thrown in the mix is probably what saved texas too.     
      
   I'm someone who believes that HTH doesn't *always* have to trump everything   
   else(assuming similar number of losses).  But a lot of people do, so when the   
   committee decided that they had to take alabama due to the significant of the   
   win against georgia(   
   which is a reasonable stance in my opinion.....I mean you have to reward those   
   type of wins, of which there was only 1 this year and only 1 every 3-4 years   
   probably) they also decided they had to take Texas due to the HTH(or people   
   would really lose it).    
    So FSU is the odd team out, and the travis injury was their supposed   
   cover.....   
      
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