Commentary: Taking a torch to this joke of a CFP season

[JessN]

The CFP Selection Committee was formed to thwart situations like this, but it abdicated its responsibility

Now that the dust has settled on the total embarrassment that was the 2022-2023 College Football Playoff, the only question that remains is whether the CFP Selection Committee chooses to learn from…

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[Saban4Ever]

It made me sick to watch the game last night. Not sure why I continued to watch it after the 1st quarter. lol. I knew it would be bad, but not that bad. Since I knew UGA would win big after about 2 minutes of play time, I guess they may as well win by 58 to show that TCU never belonged in the first place. The committee will somehow make excuses that they still got it right though. I did not like the fact that Pollack said what he said in front of Coach Saban. Yes, UGA is good and has won 2 in a row, but have a little respect for the man (GOAT) you are sitting next to. He is such a douche.

Guess I will have to live with all the "dynasty is dead" talk from sport media, Facebook friends, actual friends here in Georgia. I am not sure Bama would have won last night, but we would have at least made it a very competitive game like Ohio State did with UGA. Coach Saban needs to schedule more easy teams like UGA did. UGA has it made with their easy schedule and good luck concerning injuries for their own team and teams they play. Coach Saban will hopefully get better OC/DC and development from the players so that Bama will not only make the playoffs next season, but win the championship. I'd like to see Bama win at least 1 more in the next few years. We need a OC similar to Todd Monken. We basically have to be undefeated in regular season to make it to the playoffs next year, just in case we do lose to UGA in December. RTR!

 

[CrimsonEyeshade]

This may be a first, Jess, but I disagree.

We had the best player. We easily had top 4 talent. But as much as we hoped, we never made an iron-clad case that we were among the best teams. Endless penalties, terrible decisions, inconsistent play all over the field, which led to losses in our only two statement games. In the end we gave the committee way too many reasons to look elsewhere.

That was not the committee's problem. It was ours.

 

[Cruloc]

We lost 2 games, but we also had an injured QB and a much tougher road schedule. Committee is supposed to take things like injuries into account.

Instead, you could tell within the first 2 or 3 plays last night that Georgia was going to boat race TCU. The talent level and team speed was just too far apart.

I told my 12 year old son that the game last night would have been like all those travel ball baseball players he played against last spring in little league vs the kids we had on our team that had never played before. That's how big the difference was last night.

 

[CrimsonEyeshade]

As bad as TCU looked last night, it beat an undefeated Big 10 champ in the semis. The committee's decision was justified at that point, regardless of the steamrolling that took place last night. Like I said, we had our chances to barge our way in. We didn't.

 

[Power Eye]

This may be a first, Jess, but I disagree.

We had the best player. We easily had top 4 talent. But as much as we hoped, we never made an iron-clad case that we were among the best teams. Endless penalties, terrible decisions, inconsistent play all over the field, which led to losses in our only two statement games. In the end we gave the committee way too many reasons to look elsewhere.

That was not the committee's problem. It was ours.

I agree. We were never in the class of the Georgia team that played last night. For as much as we want to pile-on TCU, they beat a very good Michigan team in the semis. I can't say with a straight face that they didn't earn their right to play last night, but Georgia was just way better, and honestly, way better than everyone else in the SEC or any other conference short of the NFC South.

 

[PA Tide Fan]

The selection of TCU by the committee was simply a "Make up" call by the committee for not selecting them in 2014 when they felt they were wrongly snubbed. It'll really get silly with a 12 team playoff when they give the byes to teams just for winning their conference while a couple of the 4 best teams will have to play an extra playoff game.

 

[Cruloc]

As bad as TCU looked last night, it beat an undefeated Big 10 champ in the semis. The committee's decision was justified at that point, regardless of the steamrolling that took place last night. Like I said, we had our chances to barge our way in. We didn't.

I'd contend that Michigan very likely practiced for Georgia for a month, thinking they'd walk right over TCU. Similar to how Dabo admitted Clemson practiced for us for 3 weeks knowing they'd steam roll Notre Dame anyway.

Difference is, Michigan doesn't have that kind of talent to just take off a game.

No way to know if that's what Michigan and Harbaugh did, but it sure looked like it.

 

[The Ols]

I'd contend that Michigan very likely practiced for Georgia for a month, thinking they'd walk right over TCU. Similar to how Dabo admitted Clemson practiced for us for 3 weeks knowing they'd steam roll Notre Dame anyway.

Difference is, Michigan doesn't have that kind of talent to just take off a game.

Know way to know if that's what Michigan and Harbaugh did, but it sure looked like it.

Their QB made a comment before the TCU game about being ready for the NC game....that aged well...

 

[Bamabuzzard]

I'd contend that Michigan very likely practiced for Georgia for a month, thinking they'd walk right over TCU. Similar to how Dabo admitted Clemson practiced for us for 3 weeks knowing they'd steam roll Notre Dame anyway.

Difference is, Michigan doesn't have that kind of talent to just take off a game.

Know way to know if that's what Michigan and Harbaugh did, but it sure looked like it.

I think the most likely answer is the very thing that separates the big dogs from the little ones, and that's depth. Most people in football will tell you, it's not the starting 22 that separates the Alabama's and Georgia's from the TCU's, but the quality of depth. Teams like TCU can compete with and even win in ONE game, but what would happen if they had to turn around the following week and play another one? 65-7 is what happens.

TCU didn't have the "juice" they had just a week ago, because it took all they had just to barely win. But hey, let's keep saying TCU "deserved" to be there. LOL! When "you" get beat by 58 points in a football championship bracket, "deserved to be there" is no longer on the table...

 

[gtgilbert]

I'd contend that Michigan very likely practiced for Georgia for a month, thinking they'd walk right over TCU. Similar to how Dabo admitted Clemson practiced for us for 3 weeks knowing they'd steam roll Notre Dame anyway.

Difference is, Michigan doesn't have that kind of talent to just take off a game.

Know way to know if that's what Michigan and Harbaugh did, but it sure looked like it.

Some of the UM debacle has to be on Mr Khaki. He's 0-6 in post season games at UM. Most of those games he's not had to worry about an extra game so would have been prepping for one opponent and one opponent only and has still laid an egg.

 

[CoachJeff]

A lot of people seem to be forgetting that TCU beat the 13-0 Big10 Champion just a week or so ago. They may not have deserved to make the playoff but they earned a spot in the title game once they did by going out and beating Michigan.

 

[bamacpa]

This may be a first, Jess, but I disagree.

We had the best player. We easily had top 4 talent. But as much as we hoped, we never made an iron-clad case that we were among the best teams. Endless penalties, terrible decisions, inconsistent play all over the field, which led to losses in our only two statement games. In the end we gave the committee way too many reasons to look elsewhere.

That was not the committee's problem. It was ours.

I agree with you. Most Bama fans felt something was missing from this team pretty much all year. I can't argue this was a championship contender when we went to the wire against Texas, Texas A&M and Ole Miss. I think the committee should have slotted TCU 4th, let the bloodbath happen in the semis, and just take the criticism for a Big 10 rematch in the other semi.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

Final AP Poll.... TCU moved up one Michigan dropped to 3rd; we stayed 5th???

 

[BamaMoon]

I don't think JessN's point, even if he seems to be lobbying for it, is that Alabama got snubbed as much as his point is TCU didn't meet the standards of "best teams."

 

[CrimsonEyeshade]

I don't think JessN's point, even if he seems to be lobbying for it, is that Alabama got snubbed as much as his point is TCU didn't meet the standards of "best teams."

If not TCU, then whom? One of Jess's points seems to be that the SEC is so good it deserves to have two teams among the four. Maybe we, UT and LSU were better than TCU and the other candidates. But we and the other SEC possibilities didn't play that way.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

A lot of people seem to be forgetting that TCU beat the 13-0 Big10 Champion just a week or so ago. They may not have deserved to make the playoff but they earned a spot in the title game once they did by going out and beating Michigan.

They certainly did. But they physically couldn't do it in back-to-back weekends. Any guesses why? And "they just had a bad game" isn't one of the available answers. Getting beat by 20 or so points is having a bad game, getting beat by 58 is something else...

 

[Bamabuzzard]

If not TCU, then whom? One of Jess's points seems to be that the SEC is so good it deserves to have two teams among the four. Maybe we, UT and LSU were better than TCU and the other candidates. But we and the other SEC possibilities didn't play that way.

I think we're asking the wrong question. If TCU would have lost by three to four td's, and showed ANY signs of being physically competitive, then I think "then whom" would be an appropriate question. But when a team, whose physical ability to compete throughout a playoff format had already been questioned throughout the season, gets beat by 58 points and doesn't even show signs of being able to physically compete in the game, "then whom?" doesn't even begin to be the most important question. There are several other questions that need to be asked before we get to that one...

 

[TexasBama]

Final AP Poll.... TCU moved up one Michigan dropped to 3rd; we stayed 5th???

Has anybody EVER moved UP in the AP Poll after a loss?

 

[TexasBama]

Coach Bryant was right

"Here's 20, bury two"