Conference championship overreaction: Florida State left out of CFP, Texas & Alabama get in
College Football Enquirer
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🗓️ 3 December 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde react to the final College Football Playoff rankings for the 2023 season.
With 5 teams truly deserving of a spot in the College Football Playoff, one school had to draw the short straw. Michigan, Washington, Texas & Alabama round out the finalized bracket for the playoff, while the Florida State Seminoles are the odd team out this year, coming in at #5 after an undefeated season. Nobody appeared to be more disappointed than FSU quarterback Jordan Travis, who took to social media after the announcement, wishing he could have gotten hurt earlier in the year so that the committee could see the true potential of this FSU team.
Dan, Pat & Ross analyze why the 4-team system was implemented & why the 12-team system was delayed for so long. Ross then takes us into the history of the ACC/Big Ten/Pac-12 “Alliance” and how it failed, along with how the ACC hurt themselves by not advocating for an expanded playoff earlier due to grievances with the SEC’s expansion. The show also takes a dive into what the 12-team playoff firmat would look like this year with so many quality teams in the mix who obviously did not make the top-4 like Oregon, Ohio State & Georgia.
Speaking of the Bulldogs, Alabama took down Georgia on Saturday to claim another SEC championship. From snap one, the Crimson Tide looked like a different team than last week. Georgia couldn’t get their ground game going and more importantly, they couldn’t get Alabama out of their heads. The guys break down how Alabama was able to rally after a shaky start to the season to become one of the final four teams competing for a national championship.
Washington and Texas will battle in the CFP semifinals in the Sugar Bowl on January 1st.\. Both programs had excellent years and the crew is very excited to see these two square off. Washington’s offense has stepped up in their most important games this year and Texas was able to dominate the Big 12 in the latter half of the season.
Before closing out the show, the guys share their way-too-early national championship predictions and forecast whether or not LSU’s Jaden Daniels has secured the Heisman Trophy.
Lastly, the show gives out their final Small Sample Heisman awards of the season, and as always, Say Something Nice.
1:00 - College Football Playoff is set, leaving out Florida State
17:55 - History and failure of ‘The Alliance’
27:04 - What the 12-team playoff would look like this year
29:00 - Alabama beats Georgia to win SEC
43:09 - Who has the edge in Washington vs. Texas?
47:40 - Who is your national champion?
49:54 - Did Jayden Daniels win the Heisman this season?
51:30 - Small Sample Heisman
55:20 - Say Something Nice
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| 0:00.0 | Talk about FSU getting screwed, the system that screwed them, the committee that screwed them, |
| 0:06.1 | and then these four really good teams and two really good semi-final games we get. |
| 0:10.7 | Plus, our last small sample Heisman and say something nice of the year. |
| 0:14.3 | Time now for the college football inquirer. With Dan Wetsall. If the Inquirer with Dan Wetzel if the committee really thinks you know if you |
| 0:26.8 | know if Jordan Travis guys really aren't any good why the hell are they |
| 0:30.0 | ranked fifth they should be ranked eight. Are you going to tell me that they're |
| 0:36.0 | better than Georgia? Ross Gillinger. I am shocked. I was absolutely floored when the Alabama logo came up on the screen. |
| 0:46.0 | And S.I's Pat 40! |
| 0:50.0 | So that's what they've done here is they've basically predicted that even if |
| 0:53.7 | Tate Radomaker comes back Florida State's not going to be good enough and so they |
| 0:57.6 | threw out the baby they threw out the bathwater and they threw out a 13-0 team. |
| 1:01.1 | Here's Pat Russ and Dan. |
| 1:05.8 | I welcome the pod. |
| 1:08.2 | The nightmare in Grapevine. |
| 1:15.0 | The nightmare hit. |
| 1:18.0 | And the committee was screwed. They thought they were going to have themselves some |
| 1:24.0 | a weekend of watching football and eating cream corn and no. Now they got to don the |
| 1:29.8 | Kevlar. Boo Corrigan, don't Don't go to the ACC meetings. We do sit far. |
| 1:37.0 | Far from Michael Alford. |
| 1:40.0 | We have no idea what the scene at the floor of Bama, the famed bar we love that's like, |
| 1:46.0 | does the, does the line cut through the bar? I don't know if it does, it's right there. |
| 1:50.8 | Yeah. It just may be bras all day. |
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