The College Football Playoff selection committee made the words of their chairman from a week earlier look silly, and they should all be commended for it.
To a point.
To the point of the Miami Hurricanes being eliminated from CFP contention with Tuesday’s penultimate rankings. That’s the big thing the 13-person committee got right Tuesday, and it came off as a pleasant surprise after several weeks of overrating the Canes, after chair Warde Manuel seemed to telegraph that the relative weakness of Miami’s profile would not count against it.
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“Teams can only play the (conference) schedule that’s in front of them,” Manuel said after the previous rankings. “They can only play the
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