Georgia Bulldogs and Ohio State Buckeyes fans were less than thrilled with the College Football Playoff selection, and Twitter had plenty of takes about it.
The College Football Playoff was officially set on Sunday afternoon, and just like every year, there were a couple of teams on the outside looking in that had a very strong case to get in.
The Georgia Bulldogs and Ohio State Buckeyes were the first two teams out on Sunday, with Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame and Oklahoma being the four teams that will be facing each other for a national championship.
Not surprisingly, there were a lot of hot takes on Twitter about Ohio State and Georgia being left out.
Ohio State alumni and MMQB’s Albert Breer obviously wasn’t thrilled his Buckeyes were left out, but accepted that it was an uphill battle after getting smacked by Purdue earlier this season.
Oh well. Can't lose like that to Purdue.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) December 2, 2018
Some people seemed to have an issue with a two-loss Georgia team being put ahead of a conference champion in Ohio State that only lost one game all year.
So if Texas would have beaten Oklahoma would the committee have put the Bulldogs in over Ohio State?
— Ari Wasserman (@AriWasserman) December 2, 2018
No. 5 and No. 6 rankings are meaningless, but putting Georgia ahead of Ohio State is just silly.
— Kevin McGuire (@KevinOnCFB) December 2, 2018
Just like every year, a few people made the argument that it’s time to expand the College Football Playoff to eight teams. It still doesn’t seem like that will happen any time soon, but people will always be campaigning for it after the selections are made.
Do I think Georgia had the best shot to beat Alabama? Probably.
— Connor Rogers (@ConnorJRogers) December 2, 2018
Would I have loved to see Haskins in the playoff? Yes.
But would’ve been hard to put any 2 loss team in and the Purdue loss/a few other close calls cost OSU.
Playoff needs to be 8 teams.
Actually: Should be an 8 team playoff. But whatever.
— Matt Miller (@nfldraftscout) December 2, 2018
Or you do 8 teams 🤷🏻♂️ https://t.co/4gWfoJ3kGb
— Kevin Turner (@ktfuntweets) December 2, 2018
Former NFL scout Greg Gabriel accused the CFP committee of being too biased given the backgrounds of the members of it. Is that a fair accusation? Probably not up for me to decide.
The ESPN panel doesn’t like the answers that Rob Mullen’s gave them, so they are hammering him. Not surprised as 4 of their “experts” are either SEC alum or Ohio State alum. ESPN needs a more diversified panel
— Greg Gabriel (@ggabefootball) December 2, 2018
Here are a handful of other takes as well.
If you believe that just because Ohio State had a bad week against Purdue and bc Georgia's coach blew it for them at the end yesterday means they aren't capable of winning a title right now then go back to the BCS and pick two teams.
— Trevor Sikkema (@TampaBayTre) December 2, 2018
And here in the 40th minute, we finally get discussion about Notre Dame's weak resume. Would you pick the Irish to beat Oklahoma, Georgia or Ohio State? Heck no.
— Kyle Charters (@KyleCharters79) December 2, 2018
I think y’all know that we aren’t shy about pointing out Ohio State’s faults (and we aren't even stanning that they deserve to be in), but, for the committee to continually move the goal posts on what they value with no hard and fast criteria is continually frustrating.
— Land-Grant Holy Land (@Landgrant33) December 2, 2018
So the argument to keep Georgia ahead of @OhioStateFB is that when we play our rival and championship and highly ranked teams, we win. When Georgia plays in big games, championships they lose. The committee is just silly politics.
— Neatperson_OG (@Neatperson_OG) December 2, 2018
At the end of the day, all of this speculation and debate doesn’t really matter. The final four teams were selected, and an eight-team playoff still doesn’t seem like it’s coming any time soon.
Still, that’s not going to keep people from going on Twitter to voice their opinions after the teams are released every single year.