Kirk Herbstreit had time.
The ESPN “College GameDay” analyst despatched a warning about “false narratives” after somebody trolled him on social media for congratulating Michigan for defeating Alabama within the ReliaQuest Bowl on Tuesday.
Herbstreit was rapidly accused by stated X person of wanting the Crimson Tide to have been chosen for the 12-team School Soccer Playoff (CFP) bracket.
“Congrats @UMichFootball on a big win!! Huge for them and the @bigten,” Herbstreit wrote on X after the Wolverines’ 19-13 win.
“You wanted Alabama in the playoff,” somebody replied, together with a meme of WWE star Jimmy Uso laughing.
“Keep believing the false narratives clown,” Herbstreit fired again.
Herbstreit laughed at one other message from somebody who congratulated him and fellow “College GameDay” analyst Desmond Howard “for picking the Reliaquest Bowl correctly.”
“Wait a second,” Herbstreit wrote. “Why let facts get in the way of a bulls–t narrative! Haha!!”
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Herbstreit is making it clear that he believes it’s a false narrative that he vouched for Alabama to be chosen as a then three-loss group.
X posted a group observe together with a hyperlink to him saying Indiana shouldn’t have been on the sphere within the first spherical after being defeated soundly by Notre Dame.
He additionally defined on “SportsCenter” that Indiana had 11 wins and beat “nobody.”
“Indiana was outclassed in that game,” Herbstreit stated the day after Indiana’s 27-17 loss to the Combating Irish. “It was not a team that should have been on that field when you consider other teams that could have been there. It’s no knock on Indiana, they had a great year. But we’ve got to move forward with the playoff and hope that the committee does a better job of weighing who the best 12 are vs. who’s the most deserving, because by golly, they’ve got 11 wins, they didn’t beat anybody, but they’ve got 11 wins. That’s a bunch of BS. We need to find the best teams. And last night it was incredibly evident just standing on that field and watching the game the way it played out.”
Herbstreit has, although, defended Alabama up to now.
Final December, he raised some eyebrows when he stated “Bama should’ve and did get the edge of Florida State” in getting the ultimate spot within the four-team CFP
The committee’s resolution got here all the way down to the argument that the then-undefeated Seminoles weren’t the identical group after shedding quarterback Jordan Travis to a season-ending ankle damage.
It marked the primary time an unbeaten Energy 5 group had ever been neglected for a CFP spot.
quarterback Jordan Travis #13 appears to cross in the course of the first half of a recreation towards the Miami Hurricanes at Doak Campbell Stadium on November 11, 2023 in Tallahassee, Florida. Getty Photos
In the course of the Nov. 18 installment of “College GameDay” — hours earlier than Travis suffered a dislocated ankle within the Seminoles’ 58-13 rout of North Alabama — Herbstreit made the playoff case for Alabama.
“No way the SEC champs left out,” he stated.
After the choice was closing, Herbstreit stated that many issues performed an element within the resolution, together with energy of schedules and important accidents
“This is not the same team without Jordan Travis,” Herbstreit stated in his video on X. “… Please don’t take this personally. It’s more of a reflection of evaluating Alabama versus Florida State and just looking at who is the better team right now — and that’s why Bama should’ve and did get the edge over Florida State. Listen, you don’t have to agree with it, but there is no agenda.”
