Texas A&M football remained static at the seven-seed in today's Selection Sunday results, and Aggie fans— while they welcome the challenge that the Miami Hurricanes will bring— have some legitimate gripes for the committee on this one.
By the metrics, the Aggies should really be no lower than about fifth in these final rankings, yet the committee decided to give them the worst draw of every single one-loss team. That's despite having possibly one of the best wins in their defeat of Notre Dame in South Bend early on in the year, which goes completely ignored by the braindead masses who look at win-loss records of conference opponents only (as if that's more informative than SOR rankings).
The chair of the College Football Playoff committee, Hunter Yurachek, appeared on ESPN's Selection Sunday show to answer some questions, and what he proffered in response to the Aggies' being ranked below Ole Miss— a team that is without the head coach that got them to the Playoff— will only further enrage Aggie fans. That's nothing new for this year, of course.
Texas A&M's unjust placement is shrugged off by callous CFP committee with non-answer
Rece Davis put Hunter Yurachek's feet to the fire by mentioning A&M's superior metrics to the Rebels at the same record, contrasting that with the easier path that the Rebels had from round one. In response, Yurachek offered this completely laughable answer:
"We looked at that five through eight corridor of teams that were there, all of them did not play. We did not see a reason to move any of those teams based on anything that happened in the conference championship games this weekend."
That is the most craven non-answer he could have given. The committee just last week mentioned that they would completely re-rank the top 25 (as they say they do every single week), but apparently they just mailed it in when looking at this "corridor" of teams.
This is par for the course for a committee that has done nothing but shirk their actual duties this year. The dissatisfaction with this setup is reaching a fever pitch among college football fans, and I wouldn't be surprised to see some changes inbound soon.