- Florida’s attorney general has issued a subpoena to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee to find out why undefeated Florida State University (FSU) was left out of the NCAA national championship playoffs.
- Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the civil investigative demand to the committee Dec. 12 in the wake of FSU not being designated one of the top four NCAA teams in the nation, despite its 13-0 record this past season and the team’s ability to hold competing teams to 30 points or less.
- Moody’s Antitrust Division sent the subpoena to the committee in an effort to get information “about the nature of possible contracts, conspiracies in restraint of trade or monopolization of trade and commerce relating to anticompetitive effects of the College Football Playoff,” the Attorney General’s Office said in a news release.
- “… I know injustice when I see it,” Moody said in a prepared statement. “No rational person or college football fan can look at this situation and not question the result. The NCAA, conferences and the College Football Playoff Committee are subject to antitrust laws.”
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Florida AG Makes Good On Probing How Florida State’s 13-0 Team Missed NCAA Playoffs
Florida State helmets are viewed on the sideline during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Syracuse, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
