FSU football: Receipts expose hypocrisy of ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit
ESPN: Fsu fan are unhappy with the head for ….
It’s been over a week since an ACC champion, undefeated FSU football team got snubbed by the College Football Committee. However, the snub is not where this story begins.
It began weeks ago with talking heads like Kirk Herbstreit starting harping on scenarios of possibly leaving FSU out of the top four spots.
The narrative started before Jordan Travis got hurt against North Alabama. Why would anyone even suggest FSU get left out of the top four if they won all their games? It’s funny I ask that because that’s what Kirk Herbstreit said for an undefeated Cincinnati team two years ago.
An undefeated NON-P5 Cincinnati team who beat TWO ranked teams all year only needed to win the rest of their games, and he thought they would be in. He talks about beating a “decent” SMU team and Houston in their conference championship game like that was enough. FSU beat three ranked teams and EIGHT teams ranked in the top 50 F+ ratings. That’s the most among any team invited to the playoffs.
He didn’t say they needed to blow these teams out or to get style points even though they were not in a P5 conference.
He didn’t say anything about it was the College Football Playoff Committee’s job to get the four best teams in.
Check out this interview below from 2021:
However, when the talking heads realized it would be possible for an SEC team to get left out of the top four spots, that changed everything. The narrative changed to who they thought were the best teams.
The talking heads on ESPN started talking about FSU needing to score a lot of points to make their case to remain in the top four spots, even though they got moved back into the top four spots after winning a game on the road against an SEC team with their backup quarterback.
