What a disaster, what a mess and I’m not talking about Ridley Scott’s new Napoleon movie which was an utter disaster. Hey Apple, how do you hire a British director to tell the story of a French leader…? As you can tell I’m very angry that I went to go see that movie in a crowded theater with people coughing on me left and right during it's opening week. Just an utter disaster. By the way cows have udders and things can be an utter disaster… Sometimes the English language really blows my mind… not in a good way. No wonder we are all confused as a society. Speaking of confused what is the college football playoff committee going to do about this year’s playoff. This is the first year that I can remember that there are 8 legit teams that deserve to make the playoffs. Michigan, Washington, Texas, Florida State, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State and yes even you two loss Oregon hiding up there in the northwest corner of the country with your 45-year-old starting QB Bo Nix, blending into the surroundings with your Mallard duck-colored uniforms. Do ducks have udders? You may not make the playoffs this year, but you still have the best mascot in the game, well second that stoned Stanford tree is pretty great. The CFP Committee has one tough decision on their hands, but do they?
Florida State went undefeated in a power five conference knocking off some of the stiffest competition the ACC has to offer… let’s be honest there wasn’t much this year.. Miami and Clemson aren’t what they used to be so that doesn’t help their case for a tough schedule this year. So, what do you do with a team that did everything it was supposed to do to make it to the playoffs? It’s a great question. If I were to guess, just like in 2017 with the UCF Knights getting snubbed, though they won their conference as an undefeated team, Florida State and their back up QB won’t get in. I have a strange feeling that those pesky “underdogs” down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama will get in and there will be upheaval once again in the college football world. Just like those glorious BCS days. Do Elephants have udders?
In the end the CFP Committee decided to leave undefeated Florida State out of the playoffs to make room for seven-time champion Nick Saban and his underdog Alabama Crimson Tide who did beat the back-to-back national champion Georgia Bull Dogs in SEC Championship game. Do bulldogs have udders? You and I both know the CFP needs to have an SEC champion in it so, Is Alabama deserving? Who knows. The CFP committee thought so or is that just them getting pressured from everyone to not leave out the SEC champion. Alabama got old fashion cattle drive trampled at home by the Texas Longhorns and if it wasn’t for a miracle, Russell Wilson-esque moon ball thrown by Jalen Milroe's right arm to the corner of the endzone in the final seconds of the game to beat an awful Auburn Tigers team, Alabama wouldn’t even have been in the conversation for the CFP. Do Tigers have udders? Now, I know Longhorns have udders, right? It’s amazing in 2023 that we can’t figure out a way to get this right for everyone, but that’s sports in general someone is going to be left out no matter what they do… isn’t that a great lesson for life as well. Do I think they got it right? Yes 100%! Florida State is not the same offensive team without their starting QB I think that’s fairly obvious to see. Does that mean they would have just been leveled by Michigan like the asteroid that hit earth and took out Leo at the end of Only Up? Spoiler alert… We will never know but I’ll tell you what if Georgia blows them out in the Orange Bowl, I think we would have our answer.
Now the question is when they do eventually move to a 12-team playoff are we going to have the same problem just with worse teams at smaller schools? They truly can’t get this right no matter what they do. Instead of fighting over who deserves to make the playoffs more with giant college football powers like Alabama, Florida State and Georgia we will be arguing over SMU, Liberty and whatever a Tulane is. It’s going to be the same problem. Except we won't be dealing with calm, rational Florida State fans we will be dealing with small town Texas Fans and who knows what that could lead to... wait SMU is located in Dallas, wasn't expecting that... All I know is that come January we will forget about who was left out and we will focus on who is in and in the end the committee might just get lucky because boy are those some Juicy match ups. Michigan Wolverines (udder less) vs Alabama Crimson Tide (udder less) playing at in the famous words of broadcasting legend Keith Jackson "the grand daddy of them all", The Rose Bowl. With the other matchup between, Washington Huskies (udder less) vs Texas Longhorns (who I think have udders) happening down near the powdered sugar capital of the world, New Orleans and the All-State Sugar Bowl. By the way they should change the name of the sugar bowl to the powder sugar bowl to honor those fantastic, New Orleans staples, "beignets" from Cafe Du Monde.
It’s going to be a great playoff full of great stories, but they may have left the best story of all at home. Could you imagine if Florida State and their back up QB made a run like Ohio State did lead by back their back QB, Cardale Jones in 2014 it would be an amazing story. Could you also imagine if Alabama gets just mauled by the sharp claws of Hugh Jackman and that wolverine’s team from Michigan while Florida State beats the back-to-back champs in The Orange Bowl. Oh, the Florida State fans would lose their minds like Teddy Danials did on Shutter Island (or did he?) and I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see what happens in January as this final chapter of the 4 team College Football Playoff comes to a dramatic conclusion. In the end I can see both sides of the argument, but I personally think the committee did the right thing by not putting Florida State in there because the match ups we have look great on paper and having Florida State in there with their back QB could of had the chance of truly being one udder disaster…
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