Kirby Smart rants against CFP rankings after Georgia rises to No. 10

Kirby Good just isn’t pleased with how the Faculty Soccer Playoff rankings have been dealing with his Georgia Bulldogs.

Final week, Georgia was ranked No. 12 by the CFP committee and would have been out of the 12-team discipline had the playoff started final weekend. Due to a victory over SEC East squad Tennessee, the Bulldogs moved as much as No. 10 on this week’s ballot.

Nonetheless, Good doesn’t perceive why his 8-2 Bulldogs usually are not ranked greater — and what goes into the rankings.

“It’s a tough one as a result of I don’t know what they’re searching for,” Good stated on Wednesday, by way of On3. “They’ll’t outline that. It’s not easy, both. I imply, anyone will be on that committee and say, ‘That is what we’re searching for. That is our standards,’ and there’s a lot that it overlaps issues and all people debates it and I don’t have time to actually waste power on it.”

Good additionally looks like Georgia’s energy of schedule is being ignored. The Bulldogs have the third-strongest schedule out of 134 groups, in accordance with Faculty Soccer Reference. Good believes that enjoying such a tough schedule impacts Georgia’s document, level differential and offensive and defensive stats. He’s proper.

“It simply appears unjust to me while you consider any person’s bought a third-ranked protection or any person’s bought a fifth-ranked protection,” Good stated. “Nicely, do not you assume that third- or fifth-ranked protection (rating) is dictated by who they’ve performed on offense and what number of high offenses they’ve performed?

“As a result of final time I checked, our offense and our protection have performed the highest offenses and defenses throughout the nation. Nicely, you are not going to be ranked as excessive when you play high ones than when you play lower-ranked ones, and that is what will get me is that they discuss in regards to the eye take a look at.”

Georgia has misplaced to Alabama and Ole Miss this season and is ranked behind each groups within the CFP ballot. The Bulldogs have two video games left on their schedule — residence video games towards UMass and Georgia Tech. Not solely can they end 10-2, however Georgia additionally has accomplished its convention schedule and went 6-2. The Bulldogs are unlikely to make it to the convention championship sport, which might assist forestall them from incurring a detrimental third loss.

Whereas Good just isn’t comfortable together with his workforce’s present rating, if Georgia takes care of enterprise the subsequent two video games, it ought to make the playoff.