One day Florida State’s lawsuit with the ACC will be resolved. The Seminoles athletic program will move on to somewhere else. Still, nothing will ever change how in December 2023 one of the worst most egregious, and blatantly corrupt decisions was ever made by an athletic selection committee, as undefeated, untied Florida State P5 Champion football team was left out of the playoffs.
Thankfully other collegiate sports aren’t subjected to the whims human of bias, and if they are it doesn’t destroy the credibility of the process.
This weekend is example of that.
Georgia Tech golf has been historically one of the country’s best golf programs for 30-35 years. They finished last season as the national title runner-up to Florida.
This year after round 1 of the NCAA championships their best player and arguably the best collegiate golfer in the country Christo Lamprecht was sidelined with a back injury. Now if the college football playoff committee had been in charge here, Georgia Tech would have been removed from the field. They weren’t the same team after all just like the CFP committee rationalized with FSU’s QB Jordan Travis’s injury. Georgia Tech despite Lamprecht’s has advanced by making the top 15 team cutline after 3 rounds, and if they finish in the top 8 in round 4 will reach the match play portion of the championships. They have done this by competing without their best player, and currently sit in 9th.
What about Duke softball? Sunday they advanced to the WCWS by defeating 7-seed Missouri. Many considered it a snub that Duke wasn’t a top 8 seed. There can be erroneous seedings made in tournament play. It can happen, but the chance to compete is never denied. The Duke women’s softball team had the opportunity to take control of their destiny despite the snub.
These are opportunities the FSU football team never got.
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