Best line, "College football is figure skating."

The whole system is a joke.

Mike nailed it, why did they give these FSU kids false hope by MOVING them up to number 4 last week ? Last week they didn't care about them having a backup QB

"This team did not go undefeated. The team 2 weeks ago is the team that went undefeated" is probably the dumbest thing I have heard this year!

They practically just killed the ACC after killing the PAC 12 and big 12

I love how when Greeny pressed all of them on Georgia being 6 instead of 5, they all immediately blamed the system. When it was about Bama being 4, the system worked as intended bc it got the 4 best teams. But Georgia at 6? Well, I never liked the system!

Rich Eisen said it best: Imagine if the Eagles had been excluded from the playoffs after Carson Wentz went down? Nobody would have believed Nick Foles would go on to win a Super Bowl and take a ring from the GOAT. But that’s what happened!

I officially have a boatload of respect for Greeny!!!!!

If Alabama quarterback is injured in practice this week, do they let FSU in?😂 that's the logic right?

If they aren’t the same team after the JT injury why was FSU ranked #4 going into this week despite knowing about the injury?

The real travesty is that we've accepted the idea that a committee should pick the best teams and it shouldn't be the most deserving teams. And that player availability, projecting the future, etc. should matter. Who decided that? We've mostly gotten the right teams over the years and it was better than it used to be but it's always been wrong as written.

They just couldn’t stomach the fact that the SEC wouldn’t be in the playoffs! They didn’t want to upset Saban.

If the committee really felt that FSU was not the same team without Jordan Travis, why not move them out of the the top 4 when it happened 3 weeks prior? SEC owns the ESPN and ESPN has absolutely zero credibility.

The problem is that they have never applied the "best 4" standard before. Every single other undefeated team has gotten in. Dan talks about NFL but the NFL doesn't choose playoff teams by who they think are the best teams at the end of the year but by record. The committee has never used this standard before. They should have just come out and said, "we did it for the money". That's reality.

When came to Alabama, they had no problem defending the system. Soon as Greeny bought up Georgia, no one can explain it 🤦🏾‍♂️

I’m a Washington fan, and my heart breaks for Florida State. That being said, if we’re to judge how valuable a player is to their team, it baffles me why Jordan Travis isn’t in consideration for the Heisman. As much as I’d like to see Penix, who beat Bo Nix twice, win the Heisman, it should be Jordan Travis. Hypothetically giving him the award won’t make up for FSU getting ROBBED from the CFP, but it should show how valuable he is to that team.

Alabama could have 6 loses and Paul would be arguing for them to be in the playoffs😂

Screw anything ESPN says, all of their "analysts" have been pushing leaving FSU out for the past week.

Totally with Greeny, how did Texas jump FSU beating a lower ranked OSU? How is Georgia behind FSU if FSU is supposedly so poor. Crazy.

However, I think that this year, the SEC being bettter is a different story. Texas beat Alabama 34-24 in Tuscaloosa. Bama beat a 6-6 South Florida team 17-3. A USF team that had terrible defensive performances in a non power conference. Bama beat a 7-5 Texas A&M team 26-20, a team that gave up over 40 points to Miami and LSU and fired Jimbo Fisher. Bama beat a 4-8 Arkansas team 24-21. Arkansas lost to Missouri 48-14, Auburn 48-10, and two losing record teams BYU and Florida. Bama beat a 6-6 Auburn team 27-24 Fluke Miracle. An Auburn team that got blown out by LSU and lost to New Mexico State 31-10.

I'm not even a Florida State fan and they got screwed. According to ESPN though we all just need to shut up and take it.

Doesn't matter if Florida State is a different team without Jordan Travis. They still earned the spot by going 13-0 in the ACC AND winning the ACC title without Jordan Travis. We should not be picking teams based off how they may do in future games. That's a horrible precedent.

Greeny said it best, "They put the 4 teams in they wanted to put in"

An undeafeated PAC-12 team over an undefeated ACC team is crazy. If it were Clemson instead of Florida St it would’ve been different

Why do they keep having Finebaum, theres no point in having him on with how biased he is

Paul Finebaum is not a fan of the game of college football. He is an advocate for the university of Alabama.

If they're going to ignore losses then Georgia needs to be in. If wins matter then FSU needs to be in.

This was not an agonizing decision. The moment Georgia lost everyone knew Alabama was getting in even if Florida State had beaten Louisville by 5 touchdowns and the 3rd string QB had thrown for 400 yards and 4 TDs. As for Finebaum and faux outrage? This is the same guy who watched SEC bagmen buy titles for 50 years and said he would not recognize Michigan as national champion even though the NCAA gas yet to serve even a notice of allegations.

To say Alabama "Controlled" the game and won over Georgia barely by 3 points is a hilarious take.

Notice no one brought up Carson Wentz going down as the favorite to win the league MVP and the Eagles went on to win the Super Bowl with Foles

Georgia not being considered because they didn’t win their conference sounds like the most deserving argument not best team argument. They can just kind of flip flop when they need to

Can FSU just ask for their bowl $ so they won’t have to show up and Georgia can stay home too so no one from UG get injured in a sport full of injuries? Why show up if the committee already screwed then over

The JT injury was really an excuse. ESPN has been talking FSU being out before the injury.

Asking Paul Finebaum if they got it right by putting a SEC team in 😂

FSU began the season ranked #8. During the remainder of the entire season, they were ranked as high as #3. They were never ranked lower than #5. For the majority of the season, they were ranked #4. Yet in the end, after finishing 13-0 and winning their conference championship, they were not worthy of a top 4 spot? If that's the case, then why were they ranked 3rd, 4th, or 5th at all throughout the season? Why wait until the last weekend of the season to throw them on the scrap heap when they could've done so at any point during the season? Makes no sense, but then again, when has the NCAA ever made sense?

If Alabama would have been in Florida States position they would have still gotten in.

The committee messed up by ranking FSU as high as #4 if they didn’t believe they were a true #4 to begin with this wouldn’t be a heated argument.

Imagine, if Drew Bledsoe got injured, a no-named Tom Brady takes over, makes the playoffs, then NFL decides… “There not the same team, Patriots don’t get in the playoffs” 😂😂😂

“This system was designed to exclude a Power 5 conference….” It should have been the SEC, and I’m a Bulldog saying that!!

Jordan Travis has not been the QB for FSU for weeks and they were ranked the 4th best team in those weeks. What it is the committee could not justify not having a SEC team in the playoffs.

Best point made was that the system was setup to fail. 5 power conferences and only 4 spots.... They ALWAYS knew this would happen and instead of doing 6 teams to avoid this they wanted to keep the extra "bowl" games. You know why? Because the bowl games generate more money.

thank you GREENY!!!! You said it BEST!!!!!! FSU should be in it doesn’t matter if they lost their starting QB!

Michigan has overcome and won at every obstacle this season. Absolutely impressive to win with all that scrutiny and pressure. I’m not going to stop believing in them now even though Alabama scurrrrs me a little.

Greeny, thanks for pushing back and saving this program. This was ESPN/SEC gerrymandering at its lowest. The narrative was set weeks before.

An entire show of opinions. Exactly how FSU got left out. It was the committees opinion that FSU couldn't win another game without 1 player. Great coaching win football games. FSU won their conference with a 3rd string true freshman!

Alabama needed a last sec prayer to win against a 6 and 6 team

Spin cycle this morning is hilarious.

Difference is in the NFL they wouldn’t eliminate you from the playoffs over an injured player. You guys have really made me jaded to college football

“Someone was gonna get left out” yeah but never the sec. the intentional blindness is absolutely infuriating and I’m not even an FSU fan. Blood boiling for every non sec/b10 fan base

The fact that Goegia was ranked behind Florida State when they say "best team" they showed it was fixed. They were hoping Florida State would loose so they did not show how fixed it really is,

I wanna know what 4 teams the BCS computer would have churned out.

Greeney one of the few ESPN analysts with common sense

If Alabama would have been down to their 3rd string qb and undefeated the media would have been raving about how he's a 5 star and with the break they'll have time to coach him up. This a total money play.....bring on the 12 team system and burn the committee down

The games matter. But some games matter more. And SEC games matter more than ACC games. That's the only message the committee sent Sunday

Someone once said its not a playoff, its just an invitational.

Then why isnt Jordan Travis the heisman winner if he is that valuable???

Norvell pre game: "Gentlemen, I know you're hurting. So am I. Badly. A committee of politicians stole our dream. I want you to go out there tonight and imagine that other team as the committee. I want you to vent your anger, your passion, your Seminole pride on them. I want you to unleash your talent and commitment as only you can... with focus, strength, and control. You have learned a lot this year. You've learned you deserve to be elite. You deserve to fight for your school, your family, yourself as only a Seminole can. To fight for being the best. For in the end, it's not about committees and accolades and rankings. It's about knowing deep in your heart that you tried the best you could, you gave it your all, you dug deep and ignored the critics and naysayers. Show the world what you're made of. Show the world your composure, your strength, your intelligence. Show them your class. Show yourself as the athlete, the person your are. And no matter what the outcome, you will know you succeeded. We've succeeded. You are a Seminole. You are elite. You are who you are and always will be. You fought through adversity and found a way. That's what a real man does. Ten years from now you'll remember this game, this moment, and it will being a smile to your lips and a warmth to your heart because you know it's the truth. So now, my friends, my brothers, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you've become and every thing each one of you are. And everything you taught me and everything you mean to me. It's been a blast and a transformation for all of us. Now let's go out there and show ourselves to the world and win us a ball game!"

It's money, the answer is money. Harbaugh mentions players deserve revenue and they go after him, give me a break. The whole system is corrupt.

They did NOT get it right. “Win all your games and get into the playoffs, unless it’s bad for the SEC”

Greeny speaking the truth. It’s super simple: the committee will always chose advertising dollars and viewership over if teams actually deserve it.

"best team over deserving" is a new criteria mentioned only in the last 2 weeks of football. it was never stated in the last 10 years of the CFP. why? because it fulfills the end result that the committee wants which is to keep the SEC in the playoffs

To say Florida state didn’t go undefeated and win their conference because they didn’t have Jordan Travis is wild

Them trying to justify why Bama and Texas are ahead of FSU is INSANE

What is wild with this decision by the committee is that every NFL bound player on FSU should have sat out the last two games. In the end their efforts meant nothing and they risked injury for no gain.

Might as well load the rosters into a computer and let the computer tell us who the best team is.

Finebaum yesterday saying FSU barely got by louisville with a 3rd string qb while ignoring the fact Bama needed a miracle against a bad Auburn team with their starting QB 😂😂 Of course that gets ignored

Alabama's got Paul an Kirk, and Joey, and a few more bent over, taking turns, they love that elephant 😂

I’ve heard many argue that excluding FSU was the path of least resistance, and it generally makes sense. However, it’s the only option that requires obliterating a fundamental principle of competitive sports - the games matter, and wins/losses matter. Excluding FSU is the only option that guts the integrity of the game and fan confidence in why we all follow sports in the first instance - to let the players and team performance determine who wins. In the end, that’s not about taking the path of “least resistance,” but rather a demonstrated commitment to sacrilege.

What the "Committee got right" crowd is admitting is the ACC and SEC are not equals. The only reason why people are saying FSU is not the same team is because they played ACC opponents which they believe are inferior to the SEC. Therefore, Bama's schedule is seen as tougher because they play in the SEC. This is despite the fact the ACC went 6-4 against the SEC this year. It is SEC bias playing out and it will kill the ACC in the long run. Congrats guys for supporting further conference realignment.

At least Paul is bringing some sense to this segment.

Under what circumstances should a team that upsets the #1 team in the land and wins the SEC Championship not be in the playoffs?

FSU got jobbed no question. You can’t penalize FSU players, coaches, and fans because 1 player is injured. They may have lost in the semis, but you just can’t make that assumption without them playing. They would not do this to Alabama or Georgia, no way.

The committee is on the SEC payroll, the SEC is not as good as in the past. The transfer portal has changed the playing field. Only 1 team has an elite defense and its FSU. Keep in mind we beat a 15th rank team with a 3rd string, and the 2nd stringer will be back healthy to play next week. Greeny is 100%

Guys what is Greenberg talking about when he says so did they in week 2. After talking about how UT beat the sec champs in week 2 I don’t get who he is talking about and who won?

The fact that FSU kept winning and finished undefeated despite having their backup and #3 QB's should be a testament to how good they are, not the other way around. The SEC (and Saban) certainly have their way with that comittee don't they? 🤔

Therefore, based on the argument, the moment when QB went down, FS shoud not be in top 4 ranking IN PAST TWO WEEKS. That is what went wrong. No consistency at all. If Georgia won, FS will be the four seed. Just because no undefeated SEC team, they have to make up something they did not consider at all two weeks ago. SMH.

Just call it the Alabama invitational instead of the college football playoff

Gee, do we need to even ask Pete Feinbaum what he thinks about this?

So Florida State plays an easy schedule. Their schedule power ranking is 55 and Alabama is 4.

Texas beat Bama. We don’t need or want to see a rematch. Especially since there are only 4 spots available, I say bama already lost that spot when they lost to Texas.

The committee just couldn’t stomach not having an SEC team in the playoff

Nobody else made any sense but Greeny .... He should get all his food and stay free any time he visits FSU.....👏👏 For that brilliant impassioned take

So now every team must be healthy and undefeated in order to make the CFP!

So for 9 years the Committee has used the logic of "most deserving" to pick the 4 playoff teams until the SEC is going to be left out then the rules change......got it

Paul would never say “shut up already” to an FSU fans face lmfao

If Greeny doesn’t like what you did, then you know you made the right choice.

Paul Finebaum is the type of guy who enjoys sitting in the corner of the room and watching

"This was an agonizing, difficult decision" that the committee made at least 2 weeks ago.

College "football became figure skating." That should be the quote of the year!!!

It’s kinda convenient that that new injury criteria rule randomly showed up this season. I encourage everyone to look up the criteria for selecting teams last year. No where did it say anything about key injuries effecting teams. Oh and FSU beat Florida (an SEC team) without their star QB. lol! Amazing how convenient that rule became. It’s like the kid at recess who is leading a game for a bunch of other kids and constantly changing the rules as he goes to ensure a guaranteed outcome.

The problem is consistency they have a different excuse every year when they do something foolish

Greeny is dead on! Forget what everyone else is saying.

The committee's explanation for leaving out FSU is totally mercenary. It is no longer about the amateur athlete. When it was, it was 1 bowl game to determine the champion, such as when Clemson won it in 1981/82.

Excellent question what other sport do we do that?

They did Florida State Wrong 😡😡😡

There are only 2 conferences now. They just decided that of you're not Big 10 or SEC going forward, you don't have a shot.

The CFB playoff committee would not dare keep an SEC team out. They dont have the stones

Well Paul Finebaum would be the unbiased voice of reason when it comes to Alabama. Gmab.

I understand this ranking but have one major complaint: What if FSU had lied about Jordan Travis’ status? What if they covered up his leg, hid him in a room for a month and said he’d be available come playoff time? Would the committee have put them in? Ranking a team based on injury is subjective and stupid

Greeny spittin’ facts in this segment! I feel like the selection committee moves the goalpost every year.