4 Alabama are one-loss conference champs who happen to settle the head-to-head debate. 2 Washington, who are very much in the field.
Other unbeaten power-conference champions include No. 5, Florida State is left out of the 2023 College Football Playoff. A 13-0 run that began with a three-touchdown win over LSU and ran through the ACC's regular season unblemished, only to be tested by the devastating injury to quarterback Jordan Travis, positioned the Seminoles as a team of true resolve able to win at the thinnest of margins.īut at No. The unprecedented move by the College Football Playoff Selection Committee to leave undefeated Florida State, 2023 ACC champion, from its four-team field was met with immediate, and justified, blowback.
