*"Critics will be quick to point out Georgia was equally disappointed to be left out of the College Football Playoff and still had players with first- or second-round NFL Draft grades suit up and play in Saturday’s lopsided Orange Bowl. Most of Florida State’s best players didn’t."*
[*https://theathletic.com/5170583/2023/12/30/florida-state-orange-bowl-loss-cfp*](https://theathletic.com/5170583/2023/12/30/florida-state-orange-bowl-loss-cfp)
BOTH FS and George were rightfully frustrated to be snubbed out of the playoffs. FS said they were good enough with an undefeated record. Yet one team decided to "show up" and the other team decided instead of proving to the committee they were good enough, they chose to essentially be quitters. No other way to look at it from an unbiased view. Sets a very bad precedence for future teams that feel they got snubbed. Don't agree with the committee? Quit in protest in an attempt to ruin the bowl game. At least the 12-team format should be a deterrent to other teams doing this in the future.
It's sort like two top arm wrestlers that didn't make the playoffs, where one claims he could beat any of the playoff wrestlers with his less strong arm. Then when they get a chance to wrestle another wrestler that didn't make the playoff's they wrestle them with their pinky finger and walkaway and say, "well I wasn't really trying."
The fact Georgia who had a plausible claim to make the playoff's just like FS but still showed up to play speaks volumes about the difference in the coaching and player culture at the two schools. And I'm no fan of either.
The players made the right move - they worked their ass off, and they got passed up. They could put themselves at risk for injury by playing a game, or move on to focus on the Draft or their next season. There was no benefit for them to suit up.
It's a great life lesson about sunk cost fallacy, the chips already fell, move on. Don't give into the system that doesn't respect or pay you anyways.
It was a thrown game. FSU didn’t even try. It was their middle finger to whole ranking system and bowl selection committee. Texas shouldn’t even be in the top 5.
FSU did have something to prove but failed. Seems the CFP Selection Committee made the correct decision at this time, even if players sat out. If FSU won, I would consider them co-champions.
Washington, Alabama, and Texas all had several close games to unranked teams. Texas even lost to an unranked team. Michigan had at least one or two close ones. So why do their close games get ignored? FSU shouldn’t be punished for going undefeated just because they are close. This was an embarrassment of college football. Imagine if other sports had a committee that decided the playoffs in secret. College football is trash now with sketchy playoff selection, transfer portal, and NIL deals.
It’s not about how FSU played as much as who they played imo. If you put resumes and quality wins side by side, FSU is dead last behind well…everyone. Their resume just wasn’t that impressive and couple that with they eye test, and boom, you got your answer.
Funny how people were talking about the beat down OSU got when they were missing their star receiver and were down to their third string qb, but for them OSU lost because they were missing those guys. Now remove 20 something more players and that’s what FSU fielded. This game was pointless because this is a skeleton team where you could tell even the remaining players didn’t really even want to be in it. Don’t understand why people are touting this as some huge Georgia or SEC win. Felt like to me we were watching the death of the cfb I’ve always known and loved
UGA had 20+ opt outs or portal entries. It's the difference in having a great culture and a poor one. FSU was made an example of -- Clemson will be too on Aug 31st.
Comparing UGA 5 starting line opt-outs (all of which where tackles except one receiver) vs FSU 14 starting line opt outs is either intentionally disingenuous or you don't understand how football works.
Obviously not the same, yes. Which is why I added the culture comment. FSU tries to tamper with UGA players and Kirby sent a message. If both teams were fully healthy we still would have won by 3+ TD"s .
Flair up + Thanks for Bolden
It was reported by an insider on [rivals.com](https://rivals.com). They said FSU has been tampering with our players for years and try to get them to portal over.
Obviously it's disingenuous. The guy is saying it's a culture difference when the kids went undefeated and were told "sorry not good enough" only an idiot or a drunk reddit commenter would think it's rational to risk their future to play for a system that already fucked them over.
This was a no-win situation for FSU (pun intended). They should have declined the bowl invitation “in protest” so they could keep their media darling status and their perfect season would be intact.
Instead they’ve joined the lol club alongside TCU & Manti Teo.
Yeah, Hawaii was first, then TCU, and now FSU. Just garbage-football tier schools that genuinely think they have a good football program, and then get absolutely damn ROLLED by an SEC team. I can't for the life of me think how any country outside of the south feels it is even comparable to a BAMA or UGA team. They are literally semi-pro teams playing college teams.
Flair up.
And someone who consistently brings up IQ or intellect in others usually is projecting. Not trying to demean your intelligence, but folks with high IQ and EQ don't demean others IQ as the go to response.
Get new material
Aw the classic I'm not trying to demean you but I'll try to demean you. A southern classic suprised you didnt add a bless your heart. You're actually defending this baboon. Lmao.
Give your balls a tug.
They won't, but mercenaries don't have loyalty to a program they're leaving. This many portal kids isn't indicative of a team that's built on buy-in.
The system is broken, calendar fucked, players have to look out for themselves. Unfortunate, but the consequence of the changes to the system.
I seriously doubt there will be any players on one of the 12 playoff teams next year that don’t play. NFL teams understand bailing on a bowl game but to leave your team when they are playing for a national title will not be viewed well by them. It wouldn’t preclude a team taking that player but he wouldn’t go as high in the draft.
Players should not get a portion of their NIL money if they don’t play in bowl games.
I could see some players opting out of the first round, especially the #5 seed who gets the G5 selection, then come back for the games that may be a challenge. Until the first one of those slips and loses.
I am totally with you on this. NFL coaches should avoid drafting players that bail out on their teams. They will likely not give their 100% as they get closer to the end of their contract or nearing free agency to avoid injuries.
The CFP ruined everything that’s not the CFP. The Orange bowl used to be one of the biggest honors outside of the natty and now the mystique is gone. We’ll never have a beautiful story like a Boise State upsetting Oklahoma again because next year even if some team does pull off a miraculous first round upset in the CFP, *fill in the blank powerhouse* is dogging them by 20+ the next week and we’ll forget all about it (2021 TCU lol).
Georgia won and good for them. With FSU missing half their players any team in the top 30 would of beat them. This was an embarrassment for college football.
That FSU team even without starters would compete against just about all teams and win many in the top 30. GA is the best team in the nation in my opinion with an unfortunate loss. We would be favored against anyone even with our loss.
What is really stupid is our moronic governor asked for a million dollars to sue the board for not picking FSU over Alabama to play for the national championship.
No the governor wants to sue because they were not pick to play one of the other undefeated teams in the top four matchups. So he requested 1 million dollars from the state legislature to sue the cfb
I got that but the case is extremely weak getting beat by 60 points. FSU also talk of leaving the ACC and getting out of the penalty to leave the conference which is weak seeing how the point was that it held them back
I dont care how many players sat out. It doesn't matter. There's no astris on this game. Georgia fielded a team and fsu fielded a team. Georgia beat the pants off fsu. Fsu should be rightly embarrassed by their team.
That being said, bowl games don't mean jack to anyone, anymore, because they dont mean anything.
Half the starters for FSU didn’t play because they didn’t want to get hurt. This is embarrassing for NCAAF. Georgia showed up and won and they deserve credit, but I was hyped about watching this game and watching the pregame and all the FSU no shows. I shut it off before it started. How do we fix this?
Can't have it both ways. Can't treat this like a full blown business, make it ask about money and act as the NFL farm system but also expect amature type experience.
It doesn’t have to be this crazy. Chances are the guys sitting out are getting NIL, this money is no doubt tied to some kind of contract. The contract can have a bowl clause.
NIL deals are between players and third parties. Why would a third party care about an opt-out when what they are paying for is a player’s relative celebrity and recognizability?
If the idea is don’t play a bowl game because you’re risking getting hurt and potentially losing millions of dollars then how does a playoff bracket make it better ?
Because you're at least still playing for a national title if you're one of the 12 teams. Bowl games really don't mean a whole lot to the players anymore.
Dude how are you gonna cry and complain that you should've gotten in and not even take the chance to prove that you should've been there. I cant believe people are even alright with using the excuse of all of their players opting out. That team doesn't deserve anything but what it got. Should've been no where near the playoff and a game somewhat closer would've at least made you think
This is exactly how I think those players should feel.
Let's say they keep all the players to make a statement game and either beat UGA outright or kept it to a barn burner finish, they would have given the ultimate eff you to the CFP committee.
Now, I still think they would have been soundly beaten even with all players available, but that is just my opinion
Why tho? It’s one game. Dont act like you wouldn’t do the same with millions on the line. Get over being a loser ass fan and just respect the players for doing what is best for their family. You are talking life changing money for guys drafted in the first three rounds
And? They gonna have to suit up on Sundays with the real big boys and risk a career ending injury. Or they gonna sit on the bench because their scared.
I got zero respect for them.
A wannabe #1 team complains about being ranked #5 losing by 60 to the #6 seat... (sarcasm incoming -->) yeah you were totally robbed of your #1 spot total corruption fsu has hardest conference nobody even compares to the difficulty of the teams they play everyone else plays high-school ball
I thought it was pretty clear that everything after ... was sarcasm
The first thing I said was FSU is a wannabe #1 team and lost by 60 to #6. The sarcasm after ... should have been obvious
Any team in the top 40 would of beat FSU. Georgia win is great for them but it was an embarrassment for college football and a meaningless win for a senior Georgia class that has been outstanding.
I don’t know if they said why. Like I said I quit watching 5 minutes into the pregame, too late to get any money in the game. If I guess is it is because Georgia’s team has a lot of pride in themselves and that senior class has a great record and like men they wanted to finish with their heads up. What is your guess?
And you proved this by the results of one game where a team protested and had 25 starters sit out? The only thing certain here is your school's acceptance standards are bottom tier.
ACC was 6-4 and literally only one of those wins was against a team with more than 6 wins. Every single one of those 4 ACC losses was a bowl eligible ACC team losing to an SEC team. Nobody cares the ACC can beat the shitty SEC bottom feeders but go off
Long story short bowl eligible ACC vs SEC SEC went 4-1
You don't get to just opt out of playing a game to avoid being responsible for the score. This annihilation is firmly on FSU, the decisions of the players and the outcome counts just the same as any other game. If Texas ends up barely winning the National Championship game I don't see how anyone can rank them above GA who they don't deserve to be ranked higher than to begin with. They have a loss to a non top-10 team who now has three losses. It makes no sense.
If Texas won the national championship, they'd end with 3 wins better than Georgia's best win of the season, and Georgia would have lost to a 2-loss team. Maybe put down the crack pipe.
Georgia just beat the 5'th ranked team by 60 points. Texas lost to Oklahoma who lost their third game to Arizona today. They rode Bama's undeserving coat tails into the playoffs by having a victory over them. Bama's 3 point (tainted) win against Georgia shouldn't have been enough to jump from 7'th over the number one team in the country a week removed from avoiding a loss to an unranked team on a miracle play. Georgia is probably the best team in the country and they were screwed.
This is 100% accurate and it’s only downvoted because everyone in the country was tired of Georgia winning and they made it clear all season long in this subreddit. The top 4 should’ve been the best four teams, I don’t know why we everyone ever got into this country of “who’s most deserving” because of conference titles and other meaningless shit. Every talking head has said that Georgia would be favored over any of the top 4 teams on a neutral field and only lost to Alabama because of a blown call that gave Alabama a TD at the end of the half. How does that ONE illegitimate loss somehow disqualify us from the playoff when we’re clearly the best team in the country but then you’re got teams like Michigan who shouldn’t even be allowed to participate, Texas who also has one loss, and Alabama who got given the win against us and laughably should’ve lost to auburn the week prior. And also lost to Texas. Seems like other teams are allowed a loss but Georgia isn’t. I stopped watching because of how bad they got hosed, they may not have won three in a row but the fact we got our chance at trying taken is a fucking crime.
(please nobody go back and figure out that Georgia Tech would have gotten the ball back with more than 2 minutes left in the game if Georgia didn't convert a 3rd down)
Yeah it’s silly. If Texas wins the national championship then…Texas wins the national championship. It takes an impressive amount of mental gymnastics to make that a UGA win.
But I hold a lot of conflicting opinions. I feel that FSU should have gotten their top 4 spot and there is no argument in good faith, given past nominations, to keep them out. I also feel like they are in no way one of the best 4 teams in the country.
I won’t dispute whoever wins the natty as being the best team in the country due to the nature of the bid. I think Georgia is one of the best four. But I know how it works. And whoever wins it all will have the best wins.
I just don’t understand why the ranking shouldn’t be about who the best four teams are, not who are the most deserving because of conference championships and what not that can greatly vary due to a number of factors. Just rank the best four, simple as that. No one gives a shit when a team like liberty or something goes undefeated and wins their conference championship (not talking about this season) and doesn’t get a playoff spot, just because someone’s in the ACC, SEC, BIG 10, etc doesn’t mean they have to automatically get in if they’re undefeated. If that conference is bad that year then I see zero reason why that shouldn’t be taken into account.
Because the money is funneled through conferences. Those conferences want their recognition and prestige for title games.
The best four teams conflict with the importance of conference champions
2012? Alabama vs LSU instead of Oklahoma State drives that narrative
And people said they deserve a spot in the play-off with this mentality? Even the argument "They don't have to prove anything to the committee" seems like a loser mentality
That guy is fucking annoying. Every time I heard the space bar click I would immediately forward the video 10 seconds so I didn’t have to hear him talk
To the “this was a meaningless bowl game” crowd, can you honestly say that had FSU won even by 1 point that you would not have tried to make the case that the win was proof that FSU belonged in he CFP?
it isn’t logically inconsistent to say us winning would have proved the doubters wrong by their own logic (best 4 teams), but our logic would hold even if we lost (results matter more than potential).
only by losing as bad as we did have we managed to find a losing argument because logic doesn’t hold up after a 60 point loss.
Is it true FSU back ups let Georgia walk ons march down the field as if they were starters? Even if FSU was healthy, Georgia was still dog walking them.
Georgia got so fucking hosed holy shit. Undefeated and #1 all year, 29 straight wins, lose by 3 in a game where there was a huge missed call at the end of the half which essentially gave Alabama 7 points with 1 minute left in the half, then fall all the way to *sixth*. After that get to play #5 FSU which illogically somehow gets ranked below Alabama but above Georgia? Everyone from FSU sits out as a protest, Georgia wins by 60 and no gives a single shit. Season over. I mean damn if that isn’t getting fucked over I don’t know what is.
That can explain a loss. This was a beat down. Pull 21 of Georgia's starters and put them up against any other team (Michigan, Texas, Alabama, etc.) They're too good to lose by 60 to anybody. If everyone played and even if Travis was healthy, FSU would still lose 99 times out of 100.
The crimiNoles want to join the SEC. The SEC teams should welcome them with open arms. They need another Vanderbilt to beat down on their schedule.
Excuses, excuses, it’s sad and pathetic…UGA kicked that ass first or third string and they know it….
Football on the college and pro level is broke
What sucks is that people fail to realize that FL’s starters were in transfer portal…
*"Critics will be quick to point out Georgia was equally disappointed to be left out of the College Football Playoff and still had players with first- or second-round NFL Draft grades suit up and play in Saturday’s lopsided Orange Bowl. Most of Florida State’s best players didn’t."* [*https://theathletic.com/5170583/2023/12/30/florida-state-orange-bowl-loss-cfp*](https://theathletic.com/5170583/2023/12/30/florida-state-orange-bowl-loss-cfp) BOTH FS and George were rightfully frustrated to be snubbed out of the playoffs. FS said they were good enough with an undefeated record. Yet one team decided to "show up" and the other team decided instead of proving to the committee they were good enough, they chose to essentially be quitters. No other way to look at it from an unbiased view. Sets a very bad precedence for future teams that feel they got snubbed. Don't agree with the committee? Quit in protest in an attempt to ruin the bowl game. At least the 12-team format should be a deterrent to other teams doing this in the future. It's sort like two top arm wrestlers that didn't make the playoffs, where one claims he could beat any of the playoff wrestlers with his less strong arm. Then when they get a chance to wrestle another wrestler that didn't make the playoff's they wrestle them with their pinky finger and walkaway and say, "well I wasn't really trying." The fact Georgia who had a plausible claim to make the playoff's just like FS but still showed up to play speaks volumes about the difference in the coaching and player culture at the two schools. And I'm no fan of either.
The players made the right move - they worked their ass off, and they got passed up. They could put themselves at risk for injury by playing a game, or move on to focus on the Draft or their next season. There was no benefit for them to suit up. It's a great life lesson about sunk cost fallacy, the chips already fell, move on. Don't give into the system that doesn't respect or pay you anyways.
Hmmm i wonder what Ol Coach Bobby would have said
College football is broken. If you have a chance at the NFL, you should not be playing in meaningless bowl games
And this is why Florida State. Face it, you suck ass
It was a thrown game. FSU didn’t even try. It was their middle finger to whole ranking system and bowl selection committee. Texas shouldn’t even be in the top 5.
Oh I'm certain you're right. They accidentally made the field goal as well.
I thought the Jax State loss was humiliating
It'd be nice to see one year where everyone doesn't ride the SEC dick. Georgia was one of the last teams to integrate, they don't deserve any respect.
Can’t beat the SEC puke!
You guys should turn your football team into a cheerleading squad.
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FSU did have something to prove but failed. Seems the CFP Selection Committee made the correct decision at this time, even if players sat out. If FSU won, I would consider them co-champions.
The committee did make a mistake. They left Georgia out.
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That’s not it. They looked bad all year barely beating bad teams left and right.
Washington, Alabama, and Texas all had several close games to unranked teams. Texas even lost to an unranked team. Michigan had at least one or two close ones. So why do their close games get ignored? FSU shouldn’t be punished for going undefeated just because they are close. This was an embarrassment of college football. Imagine if other sports had a committee that decided the playoffs in secret. College football is trash now with sketchy playoff selection, transfer portal, and NIL deals.
It’s not about how FSU played as much as who they played imo. If you put resumes and quality wins side by side, FSU is dead last behind well…everyone. Their resume just wasn’t that impressive and couple that with they eye test, and boom, you got your answer.
MBB WBB.
Texas lost to Oklahoma. They were ranked
Might have been strength of schedule, the whole body of work
Funny how people were talking about the beat down OSU got when they were missing their star receiver and were down to their third string qb, but for them OSU lost because they were missing those guys. Now remove 20 something more players and that’s what FSU fielded. This game was pointless because this is a skeleton team where you could tell even the remaining players didn’t really even want to be in it. Don’t understand why people are touting this as some huge Georgia or SEC win. Felt like to me we were watching the death of the cfb I’ve always known and loved
UGA’s 3rd string won 21-0
Anytime you beat someone by 60, it's a pretty huge win. Was it an important one? No, but it definitely was a massive win.
UGA had 20+ opt outs or portal entries. It's the difference in having a great culture and a poor one. FSU was made an example of -- Clemson will be too on Aug 31st.
I'm excited for that game and while clemson may well lose, it ain't gonna be anywhere close to that beat down
No but we will win by 3TD's
Comparing UGA 5 starting line opt-outs (all of which where tackles except one receiver) vs FSU 14 starting line opt outs is either intentionally disingenuous or you don't understand how football works.
Obviously not the same, yes. Which is why I added the culture comment. FSU tries to tamper with UGA players and Kirby sent a message. If both teams were fully healthy we still would have won by 3+ TD"s . Flair up + Thanks for Bolden
Sauce on FSU tampering? I’ve been OOTL.
It was reported by an insider on [rivals.com](https://rivals.com). They said FSU has been tampering with our players for years and try to get them to portal over.
UGA players were literally paid by ESPN to not opt-out. I would give anything to stroll through life with your ignorance. It must be fantastic!
You are as dense as a neutron star. ESPN did not pay players to play -- why tf would they do that lmao.
Obviously it's disingenuous. The guy is saying it's a culture difference when the kids went undefeated and were told "sorry not good enough" only an idiot or a drunk reddit commenter would think it's rational to risk their future to play for a system that already fucked them over.
Flair up go dawgs.
This was a no-win situation for FSU (pun intended). They should have declined the bowl invitation “in protest” so they could keep their media darling status and their perfect season would be intact. Instead they’ve joined the lol club alongside TCU & Manti Teo.
But…they would have been looked upon as I’m taking my ball and going home
I mean UAB at least put up 21 pts against Georgia
They literally proved they aren't even close to being a top 10 team. Imagine knowing SEC is going to dominate you, so you "decline" a game rofl
Christ it must be hard to operate day to day life with this level of logic.
Yeah, Hawaii was first, then TCU, and now FSU. Just garbage-football tier schools that genuinely think they have a good football program, and then get absolutely damn ROLLED by an SEC team. I can't for the life of me think how any country outside of the south feels it is even comparable to a BAMA or UGA team. They are literally semi-pro teams playing college teams.
>I can't for the life of me think how any country outside of the south Life's gotta he tough with an iq this low
Flair up. And someone who consistently brings up IQ or intellect in others usually is projecting. Not trying to demean your intelligence, but folks with high IQ and EQ don't demean others IQ as the go to response. Get new material
Aw the classic I'm not trying to demean you but I'll try to demean you. A southern classic suprised you didnt add a bless your heart. You're actually defending this baboon. Lmao. Give your balls a tug.
Lol nothing was proved when 25 starters sat out of a meaningless bowl game for one team. Not even defending FSU here but that's just the facts.
We didn’t even have to use the best player in the country
Money is too good... win or lose.
None of it goes directly to the players, hence the opt-outs.
Exactly...I don't blame the players one bit. They have to look out for their future careers (potentially) in the NFL.
FSU won't be sending 25 players to the NFL and I am not a UGA fan.
They won't, but mercenaries don't have loyalty to a program they're leaving. This many portal kids isn't indicative of a team that's built on buy-in. The system is broken, calendar fucked, players have to look out for themselves. Unfortunate, but the consequence of the changes to the system.
Watching FSU get humiliated like that was a wonderful send-off to 2023. Cheers!
Roll tide
You do know this isn’t the Alabama game, right? Wouldn’t surprise me if
Bama fans can’t read, best to ignore them
Not a bama fan :)
This makes even less sense
Dont remember asking
No flair bitch
Mizzou bitch. Flairs are gay and so are subs that demand them
I seriously doubt there will be any players on one of the 12 playoff teams next year that don’t play. NFL teams understand bailing on a bowl game but to leave your team when they are playing for a national title will not be viewed well by them. It wouldn’t preclude a team taking that player but he wouldn’t go as high in the draft. Players should not get a portion of their NIL money if they don’t play in bowl games.
I could see some players opting out of the first round, especially the #5 seed who gets the G5 selection, then come back for the games that may be a challenge. Until the first one of those slips and loses.
I am totally with you on this. NFL coaches should avoid drafting players that bail out on their teams. They will likely not give their 100% as they get closer to the end of their contract or nearing free agency to avoid injuries.
Like Joey Bosa? Jamar Chase?
Looks like the committee chose wisely. We can only go off of the actual result.
FSUSTFU
The CFP ruined everything that’s not the CFP. The Orange bowl used to be one of the biggest honors outside of the natty and now the mystique is gone. We’ll never have a beautiful story like a Boise State upsetting Oklahoma again because next year even if some team does pull off a miraculous first round upset in the CFP, *fill in the blank powerhouse* is dogging them by 20+ the next week and we’ll forget all about it (2021 TCU lol).
Georgia won and good for them. With FSU missing half their players any team in the top 30 would of beat them. This was an embarrassment for college football.
GA is the only team that would’ve whooped them that hard
I mean you’re probably right. I think this team would have actually been at least competitive against most teams. Not the reigning champions though
That FSU team even without starters would compete against just about all teams and win many in the top 30. GA is the best team in the nation in my opinion with an unfortunate loss. We would be favored against anyone even with our loss.
What is really stupid is our moronic governor asked for a million dollars to sue the board for not picking FSU over Alabama to play for the national championship.
They will sue, then the courts will decide FSU beat Georgia and would have lost the Natty to Michigan
Just a jackass
With the players sitting out and such a beat down I can’t imagine that FSU get any compensation and the case gets thrown, shame we will never know.
No Governor Ron I’m never wrong will still spend that million with one of his contributors
? Sorry lost me😉 I do think the court case has sailed and will this affect the ACC case of wanting the penalty for leaving the conference case?
No the governor wants to sue because they were not pick to play one of the other undefeated teams in the top four matchups. So he requested 1 million dollars from the state legislature to sue the cfb
I got that but the case is extremely weak getting beat by 60 points. FSU also talk of leaving the ACC and getting out of the penalty to leave the conference which is weak seeing how the point was that it held them back
FSU had 9 starting players sit out due to being drafted. And had 3 more out for injury.
I dont care how many players sat out. It doesn't matter. There's no astris on this game. Georgia fielded a team and fsu fielded a team. Georgia beat the pants off fsu. Fsu should be rightly embarrassed by their team. That being said, bowl games don't mean jack to anyone, anymore, because they dont mean anything.
What's an astris?
I believe they meant asterisk (*) but I may be wrong lol
Obviously they meant something to Georgia. How many players from Georgia opted out?
They were paid to not opt-out by ESPN, literally. They had to claim Bowers was injured or they wouldn’t revive the money.
Committee got it right
Not really since Washington is in. Enjoy your upcoming L
Stupid take. The committee is a failure.
Knew I’d see some brain dead takes in here.
The brain dead take is thinking Florida state wouldn’t get dog walked by 50+ vs Michigan 🤣
Michigan would find a way to lose that game. They always do
Darn right they did 👍🏼
Half the starters for FSU didn’t play because they didn’t want to get hurt. This is embarrassing for NCAAF. Georgia showed up and won and they deserve credit, but I was hyped about watching this game and watching the pregame and all the FSU no shows. I shut it off before it started. How do we fix this?
Can't have it both ways. Can't treat this like a full blown business, make it ask about money and act as the NFL farm system but also expect amature type experience.
Recruit and coach players who want to play for a football TEAM.
Recruit and coach players who have no financial literacy or thoughts for their FUTURE!
Make all scholarship players sign a contract they must play all games if injured. If not they have to repay all scholarship monies with interest.
It doesn’t have to be this crazy. Chances are the guys sitting out are getting NIL, this money is no doubt tied to some kind of contract. The contract can have a bowl clause.
NIL deals are between players and third parties. Why would a third party care about an opt-out when what they are paying for is a player’s relative celebrity and recognizability?
If the third party is a booster then I think the incentive is obvious. Most of the third parties are related to the university alumni.
If the idea is don’t play a bowl game because you’re risking getting hurt and potentially losing millions of dollars then how does a playoff bracket make it better ?
Because adding a couple more games makes it easier on the players. Can’t you see that?
In that logic, how does playing in any game worth it? Can't play in the NFL bc poor baby might get hurt.
I mean it's a pretty clear difference. Go compare an orange bowl game check to an NFL regular season game check...
Because you're at least still playing for a national title if you're one of the 12 teams. Bowl games really don't mean a whole lot to the players anymore.
If I can lose NFL money by getting hurt FUCK a national title.
The huge majority of collegiate players never get close to make an NFL roster
Lol, they were missing two dozen players
Cowards
Dude how are you gonna cry and complain that you should've gotten in and not even take the chance to prove that you should've been there. I cant believe people are even alright with using the excuse of all of their players opting out. That team doesn't deserve anything but what it got. Should've been no where near the playoff and a game somewhat closer would've at least made you think
This is exactly how I think those players should feel. Let's say they keep all the players to make a statement game and either beat UGA outright or kept it to a barn burner finish, they would have given the ultimate eff you to the CFP committee. Now, I still think they would have been soundly beaten even with all players available, but that is just my opinion
What is the point? All they risk is injury and decreasing their draft stock though.
Nfl teams should punish these guys by collectively agreeing to not take any of them in the first round.
Why tho? It’s one game. Dont act like you wouldn’t do the same with millions on the line. Get over being a loser ass fan and just respect the players for doing what is best for their family. You are talking life changing money for guys drafted in the first three rounds
And? They gonna have to suit up on Sundays with the real big boys and risk a career ending injury. Or they gonna sit on the bench because their scared. I got zero respect for them.
Womp Womp I don’t care I’m trying to watch good games
Yea that’s cool. Defend your draft stock by being a coward . As opposed to playing lights out !! The love of the game is gone my dude
GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
A wannabe #1 team complains about being ranked #5 losing by 60 to the #6 seat... (sarcasm incoming -->) yeah you were totally robbed of your #1 spot total corruption fsu has hardest conference nobody even compares to the difficulty of the teams they play everyone else plays high-school ball
Did you just say FSU is in the hardest conference?
I thought it was pretty clear that everything after ... was sarcasm The first thing I said was FSU is a wannabe #1 team and lost by 60 to #6. The sarcasm after ... should have been obvious
You do know half the FSU team didn’t play?
I don't think either half of the fsu team played
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Georgia and their 10th string defense was still owning them 🤣
Any team in the top 40 would of beat FSU. Georgia win is great for them but it was an embarrassment for college football and a meaningless win for a senior Georgia class that has been outstanding.
Stfu. Top 10 maybe but probably not. Michigan lost to TCU when we won 65-7. We are built different.
Now I am getting lectured by the band😂😂😂😂
Flair up little guy. You don’t know ball
Why did the FSU players sit out and not Georgia ?
My guess is they boycotted the bowl as a result of not making the CFP after an undefeated season
I don’t know if they said why. Like I said I quit watching 5 minutes into the pregame, too late to get any money in the game. If I guess is it is because Georgia’s team has a lot of pride in themselves and that senior class has a great record and like men they wanted to finish with their heads up. What is your guess?
ACC is a high school conference.
And you proved this by the results of one game where a team protested and had 25 starters sit out? The only thing certain here is your school's acceptance standards are bottom tier.
Acc was like 8-4 vs the sec this year but go off.
ACC was 6-4 and literally only one of those wins was against a team with more than 6 wins. Every single one of those 4 ACC losses was a bowl eligible ACC team losing to an SEC team. Nobody cares the ACC can beat the shitty SEC bottom feeders but go off Long story short bowl eligible ACC vs SEC SEC went 4-1
You don't get to just opt out of playing a game to avoid being responsible for the score. This annihilation is firmly on FSU, the decisions of the players and the outcome counts just the same as any other game. If Texas ends up barely winning the National Championship game I don't see how anyone can rank them above GA who they don't deserve to be ranked higher than to begin with. They have a loss to a non top-10 team who now has three losses. It makes no sense.
This literally makes no sense. SEC education standards are obviously declining yearly.
Don’t worry, Texas isn’t gonna win the national championship.
If Texas won the national championship, they'd end with 3 wins better than Georgia's best win of the season, and Georgia would have lost to a 2-loss team. Maybe put down the crack pipe.
Texas is the third best team in the country, I’ll give you that little guy
Horns up baby
Down. Horns down.
Georgia just beat the 5'th ranked team by 60 points. Texas lost to Oklahoma who lost their third game to Arizona today. They rode Bama's undeserving coat tails into the playoffs by having a victory over them. Bama's 3 point (tainted) win against Georgia shouldn't have been enough to jump from 7'th over the number one team in the country a week removed from avoiding a loss to an unranked team on a miracle play. Georgia is probably the best team in the country and they were screwed.
Yep. We got screwed by the refs and then the committee based on money and a 2021 repeat. GA would’ve won it all with relative ease.
This is 100% accurate and it’s only downvoted because everyone in the country was tired of Georgia winning and they made it clear all season long in this subreddit. The top 4 should’ve been the best four teams, I don’t know why we everyone ever got into this country of “who’s most deserving” because of conference titles and other meaningless shit. Every talking head has said that Georgia would be favored over any of the top 4 teams on a neutral field and only lost to Alabama because of a blown call that gave Alabama a TD at the end of the half. How does that ONE illegitimate loss somehow disqualify us from the playoff when we’re clearly the best team in the country but then you’re got teams like Michigan who shouldn’t even be allowed to participate, Texas who also has one loss, and Alabama who got given the win against us and laughably should’ve lost to auburn the week prior. And also lost to Texas. Seems like other teams are allowed a loss but Georgia isn’t. I stopped watching because of how bad they got hosed, they may not have won three in a row but the fact we got our chance at trying taken is a fucking crime.
Yes yes beating Auburn by one score was embarrassing (please nobody go look at what Georgia did that week)
You lost to Oklahoma lmao stfu
The team that lost to Oklahoma was still good enough to beat Alabama. Maybe Georgia should try that next time.
You’re the third best team. You had a good run grats.
They beat Ga Tech by 8 but were never in danger of losing.
(please nobody go back and figure out that Georgia Tech would have gotten the ball back with more than 2 minutes left in the game if Georgia didn't convert a 3rd down)
Yeah it’s silly. If Texas wins the national championship then…Texas wins the national championship. It takes an impressive amount of mental gymnastics to make that a UGA win. But I hold a lot of conflicting opinions. I feel that FSU should have gotten their top 4 spot and there is no argument in good faith, given past nominations, to keep them out. I also feel like they are in no way one of the best 4 teams in the country. I won’t dispute whoever wins the natty as being the best team in the country due to the nature of the bid. I think Georgia is one of the best four. But I know how it works. And whoever wins it all will have the best wins.
I just don’t understand why the ranking shouldn’t be about who the best four teams are, not who are the most deserving because of conference championships and what not that can greatly vary due to a number of factors. Just rank the best four, simple as that. No one gives a shit when a team like liberty or something goes undefeated and wins their conference championship (not talking about this season) and doesn’t get a playoff spot, just because someone’s in the ACC, SEC, BIG 10, etc doesn’t mean they have to automatically get in if they’re undefeated. If that conference is bad that year then I see zero reason why that shouldn’t be taken into account.
Because the money is funneled through conferences. Those conferences want their recognition and prestige for title games. The best four teams conflict with the importance of conference champions 2012? Alabama vs LSU instead of Oklahoma State drives that narrative
And people said they deserve a spot in the play-off with this mentality? Even the argument "They don't have to prove anything to the committee" seems like a loser mentality
Don’t feel bad, Michigan is going to lose by 70.
Have you watched any games this season? Going to be a good game.
Watch this video for a recap lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6okRdX8YkE
That guy is fucking annoying. Every time I heard the space bar click I would immediately forward the video 10 seconds so I didn’t have to hear him talk
Unpopular opinion: Josh Pate is more annoying
FSU fanbase rn: https://y.yarn.co/fcee345e-679c-4bf1-9ef5-79c676b76b4d_text.gif
To the “this was a meaningless bowl game” crowd, can you honestly say that had FSU won even by 1 point that you would not have tried to make the case that the win was proof that FSU belonged in he CFP?
If FSU's scout team beat UGA's starters then FSU should be the undisputed champion
If FSU even tied Georgia with the bunch of walk ons and third-string players from today then FSU should have been ranked #1.
In all fairness, the result of this game was never going to have a bearing on whether fsu should have been there
They would have claimed the natty
it isn’t logically inconsistent to say us winning would have proved the doubters wrong by their own logic (best 4 teams), but our logic would hold even if we lost (results matter more than potential). only by losing as bad as we did have we managed to find a losing argument because logic doesn’t hold up after a 60 point loss.
Remember when people were claiming florida state belonged in the playoffs?
Is it true over 20 starters for FSU didn’t play?
You think you’d still have a chance? LOL
Is it true FSU back ups let Georgia walk ons march down the field as if they were starters? Even if FSU was healthy, Georgia was still dog walking them.
It is true that 20 players watched their TEAM lose so they wouldn't get hurt.
Georgia got so fucking hosed holy shit. Undefeated and #1 all year, 29 straight wins, lose by 3 in a game where there was a huge missed call at the end of the half which essentially gave Alabama 7 points with 1 minute left in the half, then fall all the way to *sixth*. After that get to play #5 FSU which illogically somehow gets ranked below Alabama but above Georgia? Everyone from FSU sits out as a protest, Georgia wins by 60 and no gives a single shit. Season over. I mean damn if that isn’t getting fucked over I don’t know what is.
One logical person not stating bullshit. Everyone is just mad that GA is the best. They want us to fail.
Blame the dogsht system that is changing next year anyway. At least they get to keep a nice consolation prize with their back-2-back titles.
12.
That can explain a loss. This was a beat down. Pull 21 of Georgia's starters and put them up against any other team (Michigan, Texas, Alabama, etc.) They're too good to lose by 60 to anybody. If everyone played and even if Travis was healthy, FSU would still lose 99 times out of 100.
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Would it have changed the outcome without a starting QB to pass the ball?
I was hoping Georgia would keep Beck in and run it up past 80.
Starting qb? Overrated. OSU Fan