Robert Griffin III blasts College Football Playoff committee for not punishing Alabama, references BYU

The College Football Playoff bracket was revealed — and it wasn’t without controversy. Among those who took issue with how the rankings were made was Robert Griffin III, who called the CFP selection process, “a complete joke.”

His problem with the bracket lies in where Alabama was ranked. The No. 9-seed, the Crimson Tide lost 28-7 against Georgia in the SEC Championship and dropped to 10-3 on the season as a result. Meanwhile, BYU lost in similar fashion and was the second team out of the field.

“Getting blown out in the Conference Championship matters for a Big 12 team like BYU, but doesn’t matter for an SEC like Alabama who had more losses and a bad loss to a 5-7 team? Unbelievable SEC bias,” he wrote on X.

Griffin III said that the College Football Playoff committee had the opportunity to do the “most right thing” with the “smallest backlash.” Instead, controversy reigned supreme on selection Sunday as Miami was slotted as the No. 10 seed while Notre Dame was omitted from the bracket entirely despite being ranked ahead of the Hurricanes for several weeks.

“Alabama and BYU getting blown out in their conference championship games opened the door to put both Notre Dame and Miami in,” Griffin wrote in another tweet. “Instead they dropped the ball and punished BYU for losing, didn’t punish Alabama for losing and then flipped Notre Dame and Miami despite neither of them playing a game.

“None of it makes sense. They did the thing that would give them the most backlash just to have 5 SEC teams in the playoff. That makes everyone question the integrity of the process and rightfully so.”

Now, Alabama will travel to Oklahoma to play the Sooners in Norman. One of Alabama’s three losses this season came against the Sooners — in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 15. Miami will play the one-loss Texas A&M Aggies on the road in one of the toughest environments in college football.

Notre Dame, meanwhile, will likely be playing in one of the top non-CFP bowl games sometime in the next few weeks. In the end, five teams from the SEC make the playoffs, including the Crimson Tide, Sooners, Aggies, as well as Georgia and Ole Miss.