Will College Football Playoff committee drop LSU Tigers out of playoff picture after blowout loss?

SEC teams were shockingly, and consistently overrepresented and overranked, to the point that prominent rival coaches openly speculated about a connection between ESPN, the SEC, and the committee's willingness to abandon any pretense of objectivity.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners.If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated.

This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Defending national champion Curt Cignetti, as one example, was blunt about his perception of the committee's bias.TIM BRANDO JOINS DAN DAKICH ON 'DON'T @ ME' TO DISCUSS INDIANA COACH CURT CIGNETTI'S CFP 'BIAS' COMMENTSIndiana head coach Curt Cignetti paces the sideline as his team plays Nebraska during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct.10, 2026, in Lincoln, Neb.

(AP Photo/Rebecca S.Gratz)"SEC gets a lot of love from ESPN and all their writers that they don't technically pay but march to their drum," he said.

"That's why you see all these SEC teams up there, and some good two-loss teams from the Big Ten not quite as high.But like I said, it's all going to be played out on the field.""Come on.

These people, and there’s a whole bunch of them, they march out of the tent, and they’re given instructions on what to say," he added."And they follow the company line.

Right, and I don’t need to go any further."There's little doubt that the SEC's marketing efforts have been extremely effective at ensuring voters ignore results and focus on perception instead.And the biggest winner might have been the conference's most effective marketer: LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin.Kiffin has been loudly decrying the conference's move to nine games, correctly realizing that the extra losses , which put the SEC on equal footing with the Big Ten and Big 12, will be tough to overcome when evaluating resumes.

To combat this, he's spent most of the past year campaigning for the benefit of the commit...