Breaking News: Georgia politician creates absurd College Football Playoff request

admin | December 15, 2023 | Other Clubs | No Comments

“People of Georgia request you allow The Orange Bowl to be activated as a College Football Playoff game and therefore delay the National Championship.”

While most of the attention has been focused on Florida State’s omission from the College Football Playoff, one Georgia legislator is taking advantage of the occasion to gain favor with his constituents.

Georgia State Senator Colton Moore talked to X (previously Twitter) on Thursday to push for the Bulldogs to be included in the College Football Playoff.

“Your mandate is to send the four best teams in the country to the Playoff, and instead you have created a political mess with a decision based on bias to weaker conferences and teams who want nothing to do with playing the Georgia Bulldogs,” Moore wrote to the College Football Playoff selection committee in a letter. “In light of the CFP expansion in the 2024 season and as a remedy to avoid massive liabilities, People of Georgia request you allow The Orange Bowl to be activated as a College Football Playoff game and therefore delay the National Championship by one week or otherwise make accommodations.”

People of Georgia demand the @NCAA and @CFBPlayoff include @OrangeBowl in the College Football Playoff: @UGAAthletics vs @Seminoles

UGA is in the top 4 teams in the USA. @SEC @ACC @NCAA @ronDesantis @ScottforFlorida @BrianKempGA @espn @KirkHerbstreit @finebaum pic.twitter.com/R0kjrT9OWz

— Sen. Colton Moore (@realColtonMoore) December 14, 2023

It’s unclear how incorporating the Orange Bowl — in which Georgia will face Florida State — in the Playoff would work in practice, but it’s probably not worth looking too deeply into something that will never happen. Finally, this is the system that the conferences — including the SEC and ACC — agreed to, and nothing about the circumstances warrants an emergency injunction.

Besides, while Florida politicians have undertaken similar publicity stunts to appease Seminole supporters, Florida State, as an unbeaten Power Five champion, has a valid issue. One of those legislators, Florida senator Rick Scott, released the statement he received from CFP executive director Bill Hancock on Friday:

🚨BREAKING: The @CFBPlayoff just responded to my letter with more excuses & still NO TRANSPARENCY.@FSUFootball was #4 before beating #14 Louisville without Jordan Travis…but then after that win, the CFP thinks #FSU is a weaker team? It makes no sense. ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS! pic.twitter.com/nCGPSiJ7qE

— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) December 15, 2023

The sixth-ranked Bulldogs, unlike Florida State, are neither unbeaten nor conference champions. Even if they might still be considered one of the top four teams in college football this season, the road to getting there appears daunting at the moment.

It’s difficult to picture legislators wasting their time with debates that belong on a college football message board moving the needle in any meaningful way. Especially when it comes to a program that has no place in this year’s debate over who was left off the field.