Christian Ponder was strolling in Central Park watching the College Football Playoff choice present on his cellphone and fell to his disappointment when his alma mater, the Florida State Seminoles, missed out on making the four-team area regardless of ending the season undefeated.
Ponder stated he was nonetheless “very disappointed” when he discovered Florida State wouldn’t be making the bracket. Nonetheless, he was most perturbed with the way it all performed out within the first place and the way the School Soccer Playoff Choice Committee allegedly broke from precedent.
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Christian Ponder, #7 of the Florida State Seminoles, runs towards the North Carolina State Wolfpack throughout the recreation at Carter-Finley Stadium on Sept. 16, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Photographs)
“The result is outrageous,” Ponder instructed Fox Information Digital in a current interview. “The fact that they’ve gone against, what, 25-26 years of precedent between the BCS and this College Football Playoff where an undefeated Power 5 Conference champion has always had the opportunity to compete for a national championship until this year.
“I feel the toughest time making an attempt to determine how Texas went from what seven within the nation to leaping as much as the three seed within the playoff system as a one-loss crew who misplaced to a not nice (Oklahoma) crew in the midst of the season, beat an Alabama crew that was a really completely different Alabama crew early on the season than how they completed, how each these groups have been in a position to leapfrog Florida State.”
Christian Ponder, #7 of the Florida State Seminoles, scrambles against the Florida Gators at Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium on Nov. 29, 2008 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Marc Serota/Getty Images)
The former Minnesota Vikings quarterback, who spoke to Fox News Digital on behalf of his new business venture called The Post, took issue with the criteria that appeared to keep Florida State on the outside looking in.
CFP Committee Selection Chairman Boo Corrigan said Florida State was a different team without Jordan Travis, who was lost due to a season-ending knee injury.
“And the truth that we’re making assumptions about potential efficiency as a result of Jordan Travis bought damage, Ponder continued. “How do we know that Tate Rodemaker isn’t a better quarter than Jordan Travis? Obviously, Jordan was one of the best players in all of college football this year and last year as well but still, to make that assumption to be a part of the process I think is completely absurd.”
He pointed to Cardale Jones main Ohio State to a nationwide championship and Tua Tagovailoa subbing in for Jalen Hurts to assist Alabama come again to defeat Georgia for a title.
“For that to be about the process, to me, is insane. I think it’s clearly an SEC bias and the SEC has been one of if not the best conferences in the last decade,” Ponder stated. “I don’t think the SEC was as strong of a conference this year, nor do I think the Big 12 was that strong of a conference this year.
Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder warms up prior to taking on Wake Forest at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida, on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“I get the arguments towards the ACC however to go undefeated, have an out of convention schedule that features LSU and Florida, at Florida and in a impartial web site towards LSU, and to win these video games – I simply don’t know what else they chilly achieve this I feel the result was positively absurd.”
Florida State will play Georgia in the Orange Bowl.
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No. 1 Michigan will play No. 4 Alabama in the Rose Bowl while No. 2 Washington plays No. 3 Texas in the Sugar Bowl. Both games take place on Jan. 1. The winners will meet for the national championship.
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