Oh, you thought this was going to be about Vanderbilt? Well, yes, college football is a rigged joke of a sport there too, but now everybody else is finding out.
Today, the college football playoff committee saw three undefeated Power 5 conference champions, a one-loss Big 12 champion that beat Alabama, and Alabama, the one-loss SEC champion. This was a very difficult choice to get wrong, and yet the committee managed to do exactly that. How exactly do you decide that winning all of your games literally does not matter? How do you decide that of these five teams, anybody other than Alabama is the team that doesn’t get in?