DeSantis slams CFP, wishes to take legal action against over FSU snub

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.– Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis took the College Football Playoff committee to task on Tuesday, knocking its decision to omit the unbeaten Florida State football team from the four-team playoff.DeSantis, speaking at a press conference to detail his proposed $114.4 billion budget plan for Florida, said he is requesting for $1 million to let FSU take legal action against the CFP committee even though the champion will be chosen months before a budget plan is authorized. The semifinals are set for Jan. 1, with the national championship to be played Jan. 8. “My first-grader, my fifth-grader and my preschooler … they are all Noles and they are big-time fans and they do the tomahawk chop and they were not pleased,”DeSantis said.” We are going to set aside $1 million and let the chips fall where they might.”Editor’s Picks 2 Associated DeSantis’ suggestion is merely a suggestion to the Florida Legislature, which will start its annual session next month. As soon as the Legislature settles on a spending plan, DeSantis will have power to veto individual items.Florida State’s omission from the CFP elicited an intense action from the team and its advocates. Head coach Mike Norvell stated

he was”disgusted and irritated “with the Seminoles ending up being the first unbeaten Power 5 conference winner to ever miss out, while ACC commissioner Jim Phillips called the decision” abstruse.”While Michigan (13-0, Big Ten champ), Washington (13-0, Pac-12 champion), Texas( 12-1, Big 12 champion) and Alabama( 12-1, SEC champion)were the leading four teams who made it into the playoff, the Seminoles(13-0)were judged by an untimely run of injuries at the quarterback position.”Florida State is a different team than it was the first 11 weeks,”CFP selection committee chairman Boo Corrigan told ESPN.” As you look at who they are as a group today, without Jordan Travis, without the offensive vibrant he brings, they are a various team and the committee voted Alabama 4 and Florida State five.” Travis, the ACC Player of the Year, suffered a season-ending broken leg against North Alabama in mid-November. Backup Tate Rodemaker suffered a concussion late in the Seminoles

‘regular-season ending at Florida, leading to real freshman Brock Glenn, the third-stringer, beginning in the ACC title game– a triumph against Louisville.Florida State, as the No. 5 seed, will face two-time protecting national champ Georgia(No. 6)in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Dec. 30. Info from The Associated Press was utilized in this report.