Sen. Rick Scott is so offended about Florida State University’s snub from the College Football Playoff that he needs formal solutions from the choice committee.
Mr. Scott, Florida Republican, mentioned the unprecedented determination to exclude the Seminoles — an undefeated group from a “Power Five” convention — from the four-team playoff calls for “total transparency.”
He mentioned the choice to lock out FSU whereas admitting two groups with one loss, the University of Texas and the University of Alabama, will trigger heartache and monetary losses on the Tallahassee college.
“Beyond the benefit to the university and its athletic program, the Committee’s decision will also likely have profound impacts on the future earnings and opportunities for the players,” Mr. Scott wrote to Selection Committee Chairman Boo Corrigan.
The senator demanded notes and written communications concerning the committee’s decision-making and rating procedures.
Mr. Scott mentioned the committee appeared to think about a season-ending harm to FSU quarterback Jordan Travis, but the harm didn’t affect the earlier week’s rankings and FSU beat a extremely ranked Louisville group with out Mr. Travis.
“The main issue is the justified perception of an unfair system that has wrongly disregarded the known strengths of an undefeated team over the speculated impact of losing a single player,” Mr. Scott wrote.
“While I doubt the Committee’s decision will be reversed to rightly reward FSU for its hard-fought, undefeated season as the Committee has done for other undefeated Power Five conference champions in recent years,” he added, “I do believe that total transparency regarding how this decision was reached would do tremendous good for the Committee, the CFP as a whole, and the college football community.”
Football pundits say the committee had an unattainable state of affairs during which it confronted a plethora of deserving groups and had to decide on the 4 greatest as a substitute of merely admitting FSU.
Yet Florida politicians are up in arms.
“Really bad lobbying effort … Lets [sic] blame DeSanctimonious!!!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, Florida Democrat, mentioned he’s drafting a decision condemning the NCAA.
“This decision is about TV money, a corrupt decision for college athletics,” he mentioned on X.
Rep. Byron Donalds, Florida Republican, posted: “The CFP committee is trash!”
