Paul Finebaum shreds 'worst' CFP committee ever, 'tool' Hunter Yurachek

ESPN’s Paul Finebaum shredded the “worst” College Football Playoff committee ever and chairman Hunter Yurachek. He was not pleased in the least after this latest process.

It stems from the Notre Dame–Miami debate, which saw the Hurricanes jump the Irish while both were idle this week. To be fair, Miami beat Notre Dame head to head, but Notre Dame’s been ahead of Miami in the CFP rankings all year until the final weekend.

The third part was Alabama could’ve been dropped, which Finebaum thought would’ve been the wrong move. Overall, he ripped Yurachek and the CFP process for 2025.

“They got it right, but this committee has really (been), easily the worst committee we’ve ever had, and for the reason that they were inconsistent, and they led schools like Notre Dame to believe that they were going to get in there,” Finebaum said on SportsCenter. “And the Committee Chairman Hunter Yurachek will easily go down as the biggest tool they’ve ever had, because he never really made any sense. 

“And I realize he’s representing the committee, but it truly was an embarrassment to watch this every Tuesday night, and ultimately to understand their rationale on yesterday, even though I just got through saying they got Alabama right, and I think they got Miami right, but overall, they just made a mockery of the CFP. So that was the biggest problem I had.”

Yurachek defended Alabama at No. 9 in the official rankings to end the year. He also had a lengthy explanation as to why Miami made the field over Notre Dame, to which some argued as a flawed process.

“The first move in that (decision-making process) was we felt like the way BYU performed in their (Big 12) championship game with a second loss to Texas Tech in a similar fashion was worthy of Miami moving of them in the rankings. And once we moved Miami ahead of BYU, then we had that side-by-side comparison that everybody has been hungering for with Notre Dame and Miami,” Yurachek said on ESPN. 

“And when you looked at those teams on paper, they’re almost equal in their schedule strength, their common opponent, the results against their common opponent. But the one metric that we had to fall back on again was the head to head. I charged the committee members to go back and watch that game again, the Miami-Notre Dame game because it was so far back, and we got some interesting debate from our coaches on what that game looked like as they watched it. With that in mind, we gave Miami the nod over Notre Dame in that 10^th spot.”