the pat persona bitching about not getting in in 2020:
One of the most controversial times in recent Texas A&M football history was the CFP selection process in 2020. The Aggies, bearing only one loss at the time while boasting a top-5 win over Florida and double-digit wins in every game but three, looked like the model college football playoff participant. In fact, Jimbo Fisher took the opportunity following the Aggies' final game of the year to stump for A&M. As he mentioned, no one-loss SEC team had ever been left out of the playoff— even those that didn't participate in the SEC championship game. And with an all-SEC schedule that year, A&M's slate had been tougher than ever. But a strange thing happened. The CFP committee put in Notre Dame, who had just been waxed by a full-strength Clemson Tigers team, over the Aggies. ND had won at home against Clemson earlier in the year when DJ Uiagalelei had been starting for Dabo Swinney's squad, but once Trevor Lawrence returned, the game between the Irish and Tigers was no contest. Aggie fans, at that point, cried discrimination— A&M's record recommended the Aggies far more than the Irish's record recommended them. Yet, it was ND who made the playoff— and they were destroyed by Alabama. In the profit-driven world of college football, it's hard not to become cynical about that kind of thing. Notre Dame was less deserving, but considered by some to be a better TV draw. With that in mind, is it any coincidence that they were put in over the Aggies? You may say so, but I'd challenge anyone to watch this clip of Kirk Herbstreit and continue in that line of thought.
narrator: bama destroyed aggy 52-24