Georgia fans are not happy with the CFP committee's comments

It's becoming a weekly tradition now to see fans complain about the updated College Football Playoff rankings. Does anyone really expect anything different from sports fans?

But this year it feels justified. This week especially seems as justifiable as ever before to complain and be upset about the CFP rankings. And that is because of one comment the committee chair made during the CFP rankings release show on Tuesday night.

When asked about what the committee bases their rankings on, they responded by saying they base their rankings on film and watching the games.

Now either the committee is way smarter than everyone else or the rest of the country is actually watching and paying attention to these games while the committee tries to act like they know what they are doing. Likely the latter is what's going on here.

But there are a few things that stand out from this week's rankings that don't make any sense. So let's take a look at some of the things Georgia fans, and the rest of the country for that matter, are upset about.

Issues with updated College Football Playoff rankings

Alabama moving up 3 spots?

This week Alabama blew out Mercer at home. Their reward for doing so? Moving up three spots in the CFP's rankings. Georgia’s reward for beating No. 7 Tennessee by 14 points? Only moving up two spots.

To make Alabama's jump even more insane, they leapfrogged Miami (FL) who was on a bye. Most fans would probably agree that Alabama should be above Miami, but what did the committee see this week that justifies this change all of a sudden? Beating Mercer when Miami was on a bye surely does not justify that.

Ranked wins no longer matter

Georgia football and Kirby Smart have three ranked wins on their resume this year. Teams like Alabama, Ole Miss and Tennessee all have some great wins as well. But looking further up the standings you find teams like Texas, Indiana and Penn State that do not have one ranked win. There is even a Notre Dame team ranked above these SEC teams that lost to Northern Illinois at home.

At some point playing and beating good teams has to matter even if these teams slipped up along the way. But these SEC teams mentioned do not have bad losses, they all just beat up on each other. So it makes no sense to have them all below these other schools when they actually have good wins on their resume.

Get rid of the automatic top four seeds

This last point is more of a gripe with the entire CFP system and not just this week's rankings, but it needs to be said.

The way the 12 teams are selected for the CFP's bracket is perfect. The five highest ranked conference champions deserve to make it in automatically so at least one team from the four power conferences is included along with one group of five team. Then the final seven spots going to at-large teams is fair as well. But the four highest ranked conference champions should not get the top four seeds automatically.

This week's bracket is the perfect example why. Ohio State is the committee's No. 2 team, yet they are the No. 5 seed in the bracket. Ohio State's playoff jounrey, according to today's bracket, would be BYU at home in round one then Boise State at a neutral site in round two. That is a guaranteed trip to the semifinals for the Buckeyes.

Then look at 1-seed Oregon, who would have to play the winner of Alabama and Notre Dame to make the semifinals. That draw for Oregon is much harder than Ohio States, even with the Buckeyes having to play an extra game.

There's no need to change anything about the five highest ranked champions getting in the playoffs, but just seed the teams based on the committee's rankings so the 5-seed doesn't have an easier path than the 1-seed.