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Are we relitigating this? Read the CFP contract. It does not have anything to do with deciding the “college football national champion”. It is a made for tv event, wrapped in the perception of a “playoff”, with $$$ distributed to those in the playoff AND the lower bowls.The ESPN commentators that covered the ACC Championship were saying in-game that FSU didn't belong in the playoffs. They were not playing to the audience of the ACC Championship game. The CFP committee was watching that game live, and listening to the ESPN commentators who were broadcasting that game say that FSU didn't belong. I don't know how you could say that they were simply playing to the audience, when that audience was probably highly ACC centric.
The trophy states “College Football Playoff National Champion” … not, FBS National Champion. ESPN specifically asked to market it as a “playoff”.
Any team can return the money any time it wants. I won’t hold my breath.