The Alabama Crimson Tide made it to the College Football Playoff as the fourth-ranked team. But some fans didn't take it well, as undefeated Florida State was left out.
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In his weekly appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, Alabama coach Nick Saban said he was harassed after his team was picked to be in the College Football Playoff instead of FSU.
“I mean, a lot of Florida State people called me,” Saban said. “I got thousands of phone calls and bad text messages and called every name in the book. Miss Terry even got called a few names. They did. We got in the playoffs and they didn’t.” [00:13:50]
In his conversation with McAfee, Saban said that he knows the pain that Seminoles fans felt when denied a College Football playoff spot. Last season, the Crimson Tide were in a similar position, being the first team not to make the College Football Playoff.
Saban said:
“I saw a Florida State fan, you know, when I was recruiting in Florida, and he kind of gave me the business and I said, ‘Hey, look, we were left out last year. We lost two games. We ended up fifth. We were the last team out. And we had a pretty good team. We lost two games on the last play of the game.’ It was our fault that we lost those games, but we got left out so we had a choice to make.” [00:14:09]
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Ben Tredinnick
Ben Tredinnick is a journalist who covers college football and college basketball at Sportskeeda who is currently studying for a masters in Data Science. His degree in Psychology has helped him gain an in-depth understanding of the minds of coaches.
Ben has been involved in sports writing since 2022 and covered the NFL previously. His strengths include providing in-depth profiles of athletes and coaches, with a particular focus on development, and looking at which teams could be in the hunt for today's college stars.
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