FSU's Jordan Travis Appears to Troll CFP Committee After Alabama Loses to Michigan

The College Football Playoff Committee controversially chose to select a one-loss Alabama team ahead of the previously undefeated Florida Seminoles for the final berth in this year's playoff, in large part due to the season-ending injury to starting quarterback Jordan Travis and the offense's struggles without him.

Florida State would go on to get blasted in the Orange Bowl against Georgia, 63-3, but Travis nonetheless appeared to throw some shade in the direction of both the Crimson Tide and the CFP Committee after Michigan beat Alabama in overtime at the Rose Bowl, 27-20:

There likely will be a variety of responses to Travis' social media post.

On one hand, Florida State didn't exactly look like a team that deserved to be in the CFP after getting absolutely demolished by Georgia. In that regard, Travis may see some shade sent back in his direction.

On the other hand, Florida State was without 29 scholarship players in the game due to opt-outs, injuries and transfers.

"People need to see what happened tonight, and they need to fix this," Georgia head coach Kirby Smart told reporters after the game, seeming to take a shot at the overall trend of opt-outs in bowl games and early transfer-portal departures. "It needs to be fixed. It's very unfortunate that they have a good football team and a good football program and they're in the position they're in."

Florida State head coach Mike Norvell, meanwhile, seemed to hint that the CFP Committee's decision to snub Florida State led to the spate of opt-outs for his team.

"It was hard choices for a lot of the young men that were on our team," he told reporters. "We were hurt. ... When you do the things that our guys did throughout the year and the way that they responded, the way they fought, the way that they just pulled together, it hurt when we were not selected."

There's also a point to be made about whether the results of either the Orange or Rose Bowls should be used as justifications at all for the CFP Committee's decisions.

Regardless of results, those opposed to the decision to keep FSU out of the playoff will argue that the Seminoles posted an undefeated season and an ACC title and should have been selected over a pair of one-loss teams in Texas and Alabama. Travis' injury or the team's corresponding offensive woes didn't matter to those folks, only FSU's overall résumé.

And those in support of the decision will continue to argue that, at the time of the selection, both Texas and Alabama were superior teams playing superior football, in large part because of the Travis injury.

You be the judge. Travis clearly felt a certain way about Monday's result, and it's hard to blame him or any other FSU supporter.

But really, the only correct answer to this debate is that the 12-team playoff format will be immeasurably better than this current debacle. This entire situation would have been solved on the field with an expanded playoff field. Next year can't come soon enough.