Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Christian Ponder was walking in Central Park watching the College Football Playoff selection show on his phone and fell to his disappointment when his alma mater, the Florida State Seminoles, missed out on making the four-team field despite finishing the season undefeated.
Ponder said he was still "very disappointed" when he learned Florida State would not be making the bracket. However, he was most perturbed with how it all played out in the first place and how the College Football Playoff Selection Committee allegedly broke from precedent. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Christian Ponder, #7 of the Florida State Seminoles, runs against the North Carolina State Wolfpack during the game at Carter-Finley Stadium on Sept.
16, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) "The result is outrageous," Ponder told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "The fact that they’ve gone against, what, 25-26 years of precedent between the BCS and this College Football Playoff where an undefeated Power 5 Conference champion has always had the opportunity to compete for a national championship until this year. "I think the hardest time trying to figure out how Texas went from what seven in the country to jumping up to the three seed in the playoff system as a one-loss team who lost to a not great (Oklahoma) team in the middle of the season, beat an Alabama team that was a very different Alabama team early on the season than how they finished, how both those teams were able to leapfrog Florida State." FROM OUTKICK: COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES ARE NOW IN NIL BIDDING WARS INSIDE TRANSFER PORTAL WITH $100K SHAKEDOWNS