College Football’s Greed Exposed 

If anyone has any doubts that major college football is first and foremost a big money enterprise driven by television dollars, they should be forever convinced by what the college football playoff committee did this past Sunday. For the first time in the history of the playoff system, an unbeaten Power 5 conference champion got excluded. Florida State, the ACC champion, was excluded despite posting a 13-0 record. Their sin was having their number one QB Jordan Travis injured and out for the season with two games remaining.& Florida State still won those games, but the offense struggled to score. By the time they faced Louisville in the ACC title game they& also had their number two QB injured and out. They beat Louisville 16-6 for the ACC title with a third string QB. Meanwhile one loss teams Texas and Alabama were winning the Big 12 and SECtitle games. Alabama ended Georgia’s 29-game winning streak,& while Texas was romping over Oklahoma State. Texas had defeated Alabama in Tuscaloosa in September.& The CFP committee decision was totally based on the fact FSU had lost their starting QB. “A different team” was the justification CFP committee head Bob Corrigan used in explaining...