Opinion: Herbstreit misses mark in defending CFP committee

Had Oklahoma State won versus Baylor would Cincinnati have still gotten in?

I’ve long been a fan of Kirk Herbstreit’s work at ESPN. He’s among the most respected analysts in all of college football and burns the wick at both ends as he’ll be in Las Vegas on Friday night, Atlanta on Saturday morning, and at the ESPN studios in Connecticut on a Sunday all in the name of college football coverage.

Despite some fan bases giving him what I like to call the “Joe Buck Treatment” in playing off any of his opinions because “he hates our team”, I find his work to be usually very well based upon facts and objective.  There is a lot to be said for that in this world of talking, er, screaming heads.

With that said, Herbstreit shared a thought Tuesday evening that couldn’t have possibly missed the mark by more.  See it below:

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