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College Football Fans Claim Playoffs ‘Rigged’ For Money And Ratings By Putting Alabama Over Florida State

Originally posted on Gridiron Heroics | By Jordan Sigler | Last updated 12/3/23

College football fans are venting on social media after the College Football Playoff committee revealed the final rankings after Championship Weekend. Michigan, Washington, Texas, and Alabama punched their ticket into the playoff.

That means two undefeated teams in Division I football, including Liberty, will be left out of the playoff for teams with blemishes on their record. They’ll have no chance to prove they’re the best team in football because teams with losses can.

Florida State, who went undefeated this season and won the ACC Championship Saturday night, was left out of the playoff in favor of a one-loss Alabama team that should have lost to Auburn a week prior. Boo Corrigan, who is on the playoff committee, said on ESPN Sunday that the Seminoles didn’t get in because they are a “different” team after quarterback Jordan Travis’ injury.

College football fans claim the playoff was rigged for ratings

The committee has found an excuse to put an SEC team in every year of the playoff. The committee’s guidelines seem to explicitly say to put Alabama in the playoff unless they lose two or more games. Many fans think the committee put in Alabama because they’d draw better ratings than the Seminoles.

(Here’s hoping Florida State claims the National Championship after their bowl game.)

Fans took to social media to vent on Alabama getting over an undefeated Power 5 team. Here are the best takes on the Seminoles being snubbed by a committee looking for good television matchups.

So how is UGA not in? Does anybody, including Bama, want to play them in the playoffs? This is all such a joke. They’re letting college football go from a legitimate sport into a rigged reality show https://t.co/IP0rztEks1

— Ryan Akin (@RyanAkin21) December 3, 2023

Bama almost lost to a barely bowl eligible Auburn team

This is the SEC $ people swinging their power

The most RIGGED process in sports history

This makes FIFA look competent

— Jesse Hunt (@JJHunt10) December 3, 2023

It’s Bama bro. They get everything and anything they want bruh. It’s rigged. Always has been rigged for Bama. https://t.co/Lt4QvZxKPQ

— Logan Graffia (@thesoulman57) December 2, 2023

Andddd the @CFBPlayoff committee is rigged and no one can convince me otherwise. Bama doesn’t deserve it and will get clobbered in their bowl. Damn proud to be a Nole. pic.twitter.com/hLKFXsxT98

— Molly Reed (@Mollyreednews) December 3, 2023

Absolutely RIDICULOUS to put Bama in over Florida St. Sport is completely RIGGED. I can’t believe it. I honestly can’t believe it.

— Jeff Otis (@JeffOtis) December 3, 2023

Everyone is just going to deny the fact that Bama needed a miracle to beat Auburn team while FSU beat a Florida team on the road. I have never once seen a team get punished for winning games . How do you move them up last week then in the rankings? This is Rigged

— Dylan Powell (@Dylan_Powell74) December 3, 2023

Yall know they rigged this for Texas
Vs Bama natty game!! That’s gone make them money!!!

— Chason Virgil (@CoachCVirgil) December 3, 2023

College football is officially dead to me. In our face they just showed it’s the MOST RIGGED sport. Absolute joke. How “more convincing wins” is used against FSU, but JUST LAST WEEK auburn almost upset Bama and not one person has brought that up tells the tale. Absolute joke.

— Tyler O'Hara (@TylerOhara10) December 3, 2023

College Football is rigged. @NCAA. How does a Power 5 UNDEFEATED team get left out???? Garbage take. The fix is in…..they’re on the Bama payroll. #BoycottNCAAfootball

— DTO804 (@DTO804) December 3, 2023

This article first appeared on Gridiron Heroics and was syndicated with permission.

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