Kirby Smart has been far from silent after the College Football Playoff committee dropped Georgia down to No. 12 in this past week’s rankings. And rightfully so, because almost nobody in the country could understand how that was possible.
But now that Georgia football has taken down No. 17 Tennessee 31-17, the committee is going to have no choice but to move the Bulldogs back up their rankings.
However, even though everyone knows UGA will be ranked much higher Tuesday night, that didn’t stop Smart from calling out the committee once again after Saturday’s game.
"Like I said after the game, I don't know what they're looking for. I really don't," Smart said via 247sports.com. "I wish they could really define the criteria. I wish they could do the eyeball test where they come down here and look at the people we're playing against and look at them. And you can't see that stuff on TV. So I don't know what they look for, but that's for somebody else to decide. I'm worried about our team."
People need to know what the committee values
The CFP committe has been around for a decade now, and people still don’t know what criteria matters to them. That’s not a good sign whatsoever. It’s especially bad when head coaches, like Smart, don’t even know what matters to them.
Georgia this season is the perfect example. They have the No. 1 strength of schedule in the country and before this weekend already had two massive wins against Clemson and Texas. No other team in the country has better wins than that. But what did the committee do? Dropped them outside the 12-team CFP field.
Sure Georgia also has two losses, but they were to ranked opponents on the road. One would think Geoegia’s two wins just mentioned would be enough to make up for that, especially considering multiple teams in front of them do not even have one ranked win. But that wasn’t the case.
Thankfully Georgia was able to handle their business against Tennessee on Saturday, so now they don’t have to worry about what the committee will or won’t do. But going forward, the committee needs to be more honest about what criteria matters, and hopefully it aligns with the metrics the rest of the country seems to care about.