{"id":67410,"date":"2024-08-24T13:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=67410"},"modified":"2024-08-24T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T18:33:01","slug":"nick-saban-says-he-kirk-herbstreit-didnt-have-anything-to-do-with-florida-state-college-football-playoff-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/nick-saban-says-he-kirk-herbstreit-didnt-have-anything-to-do-with-florida-state-college-football-playoff-snub\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Saban says he, Kirk Herbstreit \u2018didn\u2019t have anything to do with\u2019 Florida State College Football Playoff snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2024 college football season gets underway Saturday, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida State<\/a><\/strong> fans are looking to avenge last year\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/category\/college-football-playoff\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Football Playoff<\/a><\/strong> snub. The Seminoles became the first undefeated conference champion to ever miss the CFP.<\/p>\n<p>As ESPN\u2019s <em>College GameDay<\/em> sat in Dublin for the season opener between FSU and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/georgia-tech-yellow-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia Tech<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday, some boos rang out as <strong>Kirk Herbstreit<\/strong>, <strong>Rece Davis<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/pat-mcafee-95201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pat McAfee<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Desmond Howard<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/coach\/nick-saban-133646\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Saban<\/a><\/strong> started the show. But when previewing the ACC this year, Saban discussed the reaction when his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alabama<\/a><\/strong> team got in the CFP over Florida State.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prizepicks.onelink.me\/ivHR\/ON3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE to go to PrizePicks and use code ON3 to receive a guaranteed $50 once you play $5 in lineups!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then, he said neither he nor Herbstreit were the reason for the snub. That said, Saban pointed out FSU was worthy of a spot in the four-team field, and that situation won\u2019t happen again under the new 12-team format where conference champions get a spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got 1,000 phone calls when we got in the Playoff,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1827336252099535156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saban said<\/a>. \u201cHe didn\u2019t have anything to do with them not getting in the Playoff and I didn\u2019t either. We both got hammered. \u2026 I\u2019m glad we got in, and they probably should have got in, too, but at least we won\u2019t have that situation this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/welcome\/leagues\/191261?irad=399332&amp;irmp=1402407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch College Football Games Live -Try for Free Fubo! Click HERE NOW<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/nick-saban-kirk-herbstreit-didnt-have-anything-to-do-with-florida-state-college-football-playoff-snub-cfp-espn-gameday-alabama\/\">Nick Saban says he, Kirk Herbstreit \u2018didn\u2019t have anything to do with\u2019 Florida State College Football Playoff snub<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2024 college football season gets underway Saturday, Florida State fans are looking to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67447,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions\/67447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}