It lost because a team, Notre Dame, capable of winning a national championship was left out.
It lost because the College Football Playoff selection committee ignored the downward spiral of another team, Alabama.
It lost because of the committee’s inconsistencies in the ranking process, dropping one team (BYU) that was crushed in its conference tournament, but not treating the Crimson Tide the same way even though they performed in the exact same manner on Saturday night in a 28-7 drilling at the hands of Georgia. It lost because the committee ranked Notre Dame ahead of Miami all year, then flipped the two based on a head-to-head Week 1 result after ignoring the matchup in the previous five editions of the rankings.
The bracket is weaker as a result.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
