Hancock: strength of schedule remains a crucial factor
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TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA (ESPN) – College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock responded to U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and several other Florida congressmen over their demands for “full transparency” from the selection committee about why undefeated Florida State was left out of the playoff.
In a letter sent Friday, Hancock told Scott that the decision to rank Florida State No. 5 was based on two principal reasons: The protocol the committee uses requires it to take injuries into consideration, and it determined that quarterback Jordan Travis’ season-ending injury “caused the committee to believe that there were indeed four teams that should rank higher than FSU.”
In addition, Hancock said the Seminoles’ strength of schedule was not as strong as those of the four teams ranked ahead of them: No. 1 Michigan, No. 2 Washington, No. 3 Texas and No. 4 Alabama.
In noting the strength of schedule, Hancock wrote, “If being undefeated without regard to a team’s strength of schedule was part of our protocol, other universities with undefeated records would have routinely been considered for the Playoff. There have been eight, counting Florida State, undefeated teams that did not make the Playoff. While this is the first year such a team was from a so-called P5 conference, strength of schedule remains a crucial factor.”
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