Trump Selection Committee

Donald Trump would love to have the College Football Playoff Selection Committee choose the next president, or at least have its system used.

The four teams the committee selected for this year’s playoffs are Washington, Michigan, Texas, and Alabama.

Third-ranked Washington beat fifth-ranked Oregon to capture the Pac-12 championship. Second-ranked Michigan beat 16th-ranked Iowa to win the Big Ten championship. Seventh-ranked Texas beat 18th-ranked Oklahoma State to win the Big 12 championship. Eighth-ranked Alabama beat first-ranked Georgia to win the SEC championship.

The team left out was fourth-ranked Florida State who beat 14th-ranked Louisville to win the ACC championship.

I totally forgot it was championship weekend and I didn’t watch any of those games. I watched Netflix and played guitar when I wasn’t drawing or watching the news.

Two of the playoff teams, Alabama and Texas, are not undefeated. Both of those teams have lost one game apiece (Texas beat Alabama earlier in the year). Washington and Michigan are both undefeated so it makes sense placing both of those in the playoffs after winning their conference championships. Florida State is also undefeated, but two defeated teams were chosen over them. So, did Florida State get hosed?

A lot of people are screaming that Alabama should not have been chosen over FSU, but I’m not so sure because Alabama did beat first-ranked Georgia. The argument for Texas being included is that they beat Alabama, so how can you pick Alabama and leave Texas out? Texas wasn’t ranked as high as FSU and the team they beat for their championship was ranked 18.

The committee picked a 7th-ranked and an 8th-ranked, both with one loss, over an undefeated 4th-ranked. Yeah, FSU got screwed over. Apparently, it took the committee to be locked in a room for 48 hours to get this…wrong.

Florida Senator Rick Voldemort Scott is almost as upset over FSU being cheated as he was over Donald Trump not being cheated in 2020. FSU being from the home of Scott, DeSantis, Matt Gaetz, and now Donald Trump kinda makes you wanna root against it.

The committee decided to leave FSU out because their starting quarterback, Jordan Travis, suffered a season-ending injury earlier in the year, yet continued to win all of their games including the ACC championship with a third-string quarterback. The committee judged that FSU can’t compete in the playoffs without their starting QB. So let’s use that logic for the Republican primary and cancel Trump because he’s injured by 91 criminal charges and just like a QB with a broken leg, he can’t climb stairs either. I bet that Jordan Travis isn’t afraid of playing in the rain though.

OK…maybe my analogies here suck, but my take is that Donald Trump is going to try to hose us the way the College Football Selection Committee burned Florida State. Donald Trump does not believe in democracy and will take the White House by cheating. It’s how he took it in 2016 and how he tried to steal it in 2020. Maybe FSU should send white nationalist terrorists to the committee’s headquarters to overturn their decision.

At least it would make Rick Scott happy.

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