The problem wasn’t the teams selected.
It’s the system.
The expanded 12-tea🃏m College Football Playoff debuted with four unwatchable games, one blowout after another, that led to many finding fault with the selection process.
Pointing to three-loss SEC teams such as Alabama and Ole Miss getting bypassed for programsౠ such as Indiana and SMU, until another SEC school, Tennessee, was crushed by Ohio State on Saturda♊y night. At that point, there was naturally radio silence from those critics.