FSU football: Receipts expose hypocrisy of Kirk Herbstreit
It’s been over a week since an ACC champion, undefeated FSU football team got snubbed by the College Football Committee. However, the snub is not where this story begins.
It began weeks ago with talking heads like Kirk Herbstreit starting harping on scenarios of possibly leaving FSU out of the top four spots.
The narrative started before Jordan Travis got hurt against North Alabama. Why would anyone even suggest FSU get left out of the top four if they won all their games? It’s funny I ask that because that’s what Kirk Herbstreit said for an undefeated Cincinnati team two years ago.
An undefeated NON-P5 Cincinnati team who beat TWO ranked teams all year only needed to win the rest of their games, and he thought they would be in. He talks about beating a “decent” SMU team and Houston in their conference championship game like that was enough. FSU beat three ranked teams and EIGHT teams ranked in the top 50 F+ ratings. That’s the most among any team invited to the playoffs.
He didn’t say they needed to blow these teams out or to get style points even though they were not in a P5 conference.
He didn’t say anything about it was the College Football Playoff Committee’s job to get the four best teams in.
Check out this interview below from 2021:
"Who's going to beat Cincinnati?" Kirk Herbstreit believes Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Cincinnati will make the College Football Playoff. @WLWT #Bearcats pic.twitter.com/7l75L7bUDE
— Brandon Saho (@BrandonSaho) November 5, 2021
However, when the talking heads realized it would be possible for an SEC team to get left out of the top four spots, that changed everything. The narrative changed to who they thought were the best teams.
— no context college football (@nocontextcfb) November 29, 2023
The talking heads on ESPN started talking about FSU needing to score a lot of points to make their case to remain in the top four spots, even though they got moved back into the top four spots after winning a game on the road against an SEC team with their backup quarterback.
They never once mentioned FSU would have its backup quarterback back for the playoff game when freshman Brock Glenn started the ACCCG against the Louisville Cardinals. Mind you, the Cardinals ranked higher than the Houston team Cincinnati beat in 2021. They also ranked higher than the opponents Texas AND Michigan beat in their conference championship games.
This was Nov 14, days before Travis got hurt.
“Florida State don’t wanna hear that.”
“I didn’t name any names!” pic.twitter.com/2VEWqH7thZ
— Juevos Banchero (@JuevosBanchero) December 6, 2023
This above video is the damning evidence. They are already talking about two teams with a loss “boxing out” an undefeated FSU football team that hasn’t lost its starting QB yet. However, Herbstreit wasn’t saying anything like that in 2021 as long as Cincinnati kept beating non-P5 scrubs because of the SEC options to get a team in the college football playoffs.
The talking heads never mentioned how Texas or Alabama struggled with terrible teams like TCU, Auburn, or South Florida. This process was a joke because ESPN is in bed with the SEC. The receipts are clear as day, and there’s plenty more out there.
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