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Cutting room floor text …

The more-virtuous-than-thou sports pundits were wrong this season too ...

A month ago the popular outrage in the pundit class was that FSU had been the victim of a great injustice by being left out of this college football playoffs. The narrative was that FSU - not Alabama - “deserved” to be in the playoffs. (The "best four teams" criteria should have been ignored by the committe).

As it turns out, Michigan was the best team in college football this year. The Wolverines beat Alabama - but they were trailing in that game until the final 1:25. Alabama might have lost, but the Tide gave Michigan a more competitive game than No. 2 Washington did.

For its part, FSU got beat by 60 points in the Orange Bowl by a Georgia team Alabama had just beat.

It’s indeed unfortunate that a team can go 13-0 and not make the playoffs and I feel bad for FSU fans, but anybody who thinks FSU should have been playing in the national title tournament over Alabama has been infected by woke and non-sensical propaganda …. Just like all the pundits and experts in our Covid times.

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Off topic (kind of) ... I've noticed that sports-related Substack articles don't do particularly well on Substack (at least this is my experience). I also once did some research, trying to find sports-themed Substacks and couldn't find a whole lot.

This strikes me as odd. It seems like there would be many sports sites on Substack. I could even see popular Substacks devoted just to, say, Alabama football.

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