Yes. And don’t get all ass sore and hyperbolic about it. Again, it’s not like some big “fix” or conspiracy. But they clearly have everything they need in their list of criteria to justify putting whatever matchups they want in the final 4 any given year. As soon as Alabama won it was painfully clear which way the final rankings were gonna go when every single analyst started talking about Florida state being left out, including the commentators on the ACC game.
With my team being in the playoff I’m actually glad Alabama is in to avoid all the cries of asterisk year with no SEC team. But let’s not pretend that FSU didn’t get screwed to keep the SEC involved, or that the committee didn’t make the safe bet and it took some kind of balls to drop Florida state out.