The College Football Playoff Selection Committee is below investigation in Florida over its choice to maintain the Florida State Seminoles out of the four-team discipline, state Attorney General Ashley Moody stated on Tuesday.
Florida State completed the season 13-0 and, regardless of that, weren’t included within the playoffs. Alabama and Texas – every group that had one loss in the course of the season – hopped over the Seminoles. CFP officers pointed to the group’s make-up because it stood now as the explanation why the group was snubbed.
Keon Coleman, #4 of the Florida State Seminoles, celebrates a landing by planting an invisible crown on Jordan Travis, #13, in the course of the second half of a sport at Doak Campbell Stadium on Oct. 14, 2023 in Tallahassee, Florida. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)
Moody stated the state is in search of to find out whether or not any anticompetitive conduct was concerned in conserving Florida State out of the playoffs. Officials are additionally in search of communications from the SEC, ACC, NCAA, ESPN, Group of Five Conferences and Power Five Conferences.
“I’m a lifelong Gator, but I’m also the Florida attorney general, and I know injustice when I see it,” she stated in a video posted on X. “No rational person or college football fan can look at this situation and not question the result. The NCAA, conferences and the College Football Playoff committee are subject to antitrust laws.
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Florida State Seminoles head coach Mike Norvell holds up the trophy as the confetti flies during the ACC Football Championship Game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Florida State Seminoles on Dec. 2, 2023 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. (John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“My workplace is launching an investigation to look at if the committee was concerned in any anticompetitive conduct. As it stands, the committee’s choice reeks of partiality, so we’re demanding solutions — not just for FSU, however for all faculties, groups and followers of school soccer. In Florida, benefit issues. If it is consideration they have been on the lookout for, the committee definitely has our consideration now.”
The Committee said it had yet to receive anything from the attorney general.
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“We will rigorously overview this demand for data, nevertheless it positive appears to be an excessively aggressive response to a school soccer rating by which some followers someplace have been certain to be disenchanted,” College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock said in a statement, via ESPN.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., welcomed Moody’s investigation.
Keon Coleman, #4 of the Florida State Seminoles, warms up before the start of a game against the Florida Gators at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on Nov. 25, 2023 in Gainesville, Florida. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)
“Good! For greater than per week, the @CFBPlayoff Selection Committee has been hiding & evading my calls for for transparency after excluding #FSU. I welcome @AGAshleyMoody’s efforts to pressure accountability,” he wrote on X.
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