"THE COMMITTEE"

Why the Committee is RIGHT!!!

Since Tuesday around 7:00 pm CST, all I’ve witnessed is FSU fans around the globe whine and complain about yet another slide in the new college football playoff standing.

Well, I have some advice for you FSU fans (advocates)—if you want that shiny (12-0) record to mean something, how about not having to survive to beat (5-6) Oklahoma State. Don’t give up 41 points to NC State, and be thankful the refs blew the biggest call of the game and helped you beat Notre Dame who’s currently snowballing with a 4 game losing streak. Also, how about you instruct “Famous Jameis” to start passing the ball to the guys in the FSU jerseys for a change? And do I even have to mention the late field goal you needed to survive against “Mighty” Boston College.....at home?

But you had another shot to make the people believers again. You had the struggling Florida Gators fresh off of firing their head coach coming to your house. Should have been an easy win and a rise in the standings right? Unfortunately not. “Famous Jameis” decided he wanted to throw 4 passes to the Gators and you escaped with a 5 point victory. And NO!—I do not want to hear you cry about Florida being a rival and that’s why it was close! They were also a rival last year when you beat them by 30!!  Sorry Jimbo, but it is a figure skating contest where style points matter bigtime!

But it’s very simple for you FSU fans and advocates; Win and you’re in!! Throw a party like never before in Tallahassee! You’ll go (12-0) and stay at that #4 spot, when a late Christmas gift will be waiting for you. ROLL TIDE!

 

-Derrick Williams

 

Why the Committee is WRONG!!!

QUICK! Someone reboot the BCS computers, find the old hard drives, flashdrives, floppy disks, ANYTHING to remove the human element from the decision making process. How, in their first year, they can get something so blatantly wrong is absolutely beyond me. This takes overanalyzing to a whole new level.

Let’s just take away names for a second and think logically about this. Ready? Okay, you have Team A. Team A had a schedule that included games against 4 ranked opponents. In those games, Team A went 3-1. Although Team A dominated weaker opponents, against the ranked teams not only did they lose one but they went into OT with an 8-4 team that could arguably not be ranked, won one by 5 and allowed 44 points against another. Impressive, but not a whole lot of “style” there, right?

Now let’s look at Team B. Team B is coming off of an undefeated National Championship season, returning the reigning Heisman trophy winner and most of the starters from a pretty good team. So they followed that up with ANOTHER undefeated regular season. Team B also had 3 wins against ranked opponents, except they don’t have that loss that Team A has. Team B has looked like they’ve had it in cruise control all season and sometimes have fallen behind in games, but at the end of the day when it was time to play at an ELITE level and win the game they’ve done it Every. Single. Time.

If I handed you this scenario and told you that one of these teams will be ranked #1 and one of them would be ranked #4, which would you pick as #1?

Overtime Note: Now I know some people might say, “Well as long as you get in the top 4, that’s all that matters”. I whole-heartedly disagree with this. There is a difference or else they wouldn’t rank the top 4 and they’d choose the matchups at random. Alabama is Alabama, and playing them in the semi-final is a disadvantage for any team. A team that has won 28 games in a row and are the defending National Champions has earned any advantage possible. Now we must ask ourselves this, if Florida State loses to Georgia Tech, do they really deserve to fall out of the top 4? At that point, they have 1 loss like everyone else, and their loss is to a better team than Alabama’s one loss, Ohio State’s one loss, Baylor’s one loss, and just as “good” as Oregon’s loss. But judging from the committee’s message the past 2 weeks, they’re liable to fall out of the top 25 if they lose this weekend.

 

-Jalynn Mitchell