Robert Griffin III accuses CFP committee of 'SEC bias' after Alabama choice over Notre Dame, BYU

The fallout of this year's College Football Playoff bracket continues days aft the enactment committee ignited contention with its at-large-bid teams. 

The main culprit? Alabama was fixed the No. 9 effect contempt being blown retired by the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs successful the SEC Championship Game to autumn to 10-3 connected the season. 

Many believed the Crimson Tide's nonaccomplishment meant some Miami and Notre Dame were going to get in. Instead, the enactment committee chose to permission retired the Fighting Irish, awarding the Hurricanes the No. 10 effect followed by league winners Tulane (No. 11) and James Madison University (No. 12). 

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Robert Griffin III connected the ESPN Monday Night Football Countdown acceptable SoFi Stadium. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

For FOX Sports expert and 2011 Heisman Trophy victor Robert Griffin III, the enactment committee simply "got it incorrect this year," and his thoughts revolve astir immoderate bias. 

"The SEC bias is clear. You got 5 SEC teams successful it, and I deliberation astir radical would agree, having looked astatine this and looked astatine the numbers and seen the caller trends implicit the past 3 years, the SEC simply isn’t arsenic ascendant arsenic what it utilized to be," helium told Fox News Digital aft helping USAA acquisition 2 subject veterans with caller vehicles earlier the 126th Army-Navy crippled this weekend. "The Big Ten has caught up, the Big 12 is simply a much competitory league apical to bottommost than they’re fixed recognition for. I thought the committee could’ve done the easiest happening imaginable to marque the astir radical blessed due to the fact that it was wrong their parameters."

What precisely was the "easiest happening possible" successful the eyes of Griffin? It was to person some Miami and Notre Dame in, due to the fact that present helium feels BYU, who went 11-2 this play aft getting blown retired successful the Big 12 Championship Game by No. 4 Texas Tech, was punished. 

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Meanwhile, Alabama was fixed a accidental astatine a nationalist rubric contempt a akin effect and 1 much nonaccomplishment than the Cougars. 

"If you’re going to punish BYU, punish Alabama," Griffin explained. "Alabama’s got 1 other loss, they some got blown retired successful their league title games. Move them some out. Now, that mode you enactment some Miami and Notre Dame in, and you debar that full speech of head-to-head and each that. They did the worst happening you could do: they punished BYU and past enactment Miami successful implicit Notre Dame, adjacent though neither squad played [in a league championship] and made them leap each other. It made zero sense."

Griffin added that a occupation for BYU was that they were ne'er wrong the apical 10 successful anterior rankings starring up to the selection. 

Notre Dame caput manager Marcus Freeman, center, gestures from the sideline during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Stanford, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, successful Stanford, California. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

But 1 of the nationalist conversations is whether the enactment committee tin beryllium trusted moving forward. Of course, an expanded playoff format means immoderate teams are conscionable going to person to autumn retired successful the end, but Griffin sees bias successful the process similar galore others do. 

"When you speech astir trusting the committee, the committee, successful my opinion, person excessively galore bully men connected it that they would marque this colossal mistake," helium said. "It’s not just, ‘Oh, determination mightiness beryllium immoderate SEC bias.’ There’s intelligibly SEC bias. I’m not huffy astatine JMU, I’m not huffy astatine Tulane. They did what they were expected to bash based disconnected the rules. They won their games, they merit to beryllium in. 

"This illusion that we’re trying to enactment the 12 champion teams successful the state — it’s not true, man. It’s ne'er been astir the 12 champion teams. It’s astir the 12 teams they tin warrant putting in, and I deliberation they got it incorrect this year."

Notre Dame has since declined immoderate vessel crippled invitation, portion BYU is acceptable to play successful the Pop-Tarts Bowl against Georgia Tech. 

Griffin was backmost successful Baltimore, wherever helium spent the remaining years of his NFL playing career, to amusement grant done enactment successful the contented of the yearly Army-Navy Game by gifting 2 recycled rides with USAA, the authoritative Salute to Service spouse of the NFL.

BYU caput manager Kalani Sitake, center, looks to a replay with officials during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Cincinnati, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, successful Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Cryptological Technican Petty Officer First Class Jamil Lewis, who is presently serving successful the Navy, and seasoned Patrick Huber, Specialist 116th Infantry Regiment, Army National Guard were some amazed by Griffin with the brand-new conveyance astatine Inner Harbor successful beforehand of the USS Constellation.

Griffin, who comes from a subject household himself with his parent and begetter serving successful the Army, has agelong enjoyed his concern with USAA and couldn’t person been happier to assistance retired with this.

"I’ve been truthful honored to spouse with USAA. We’ve been partnered unneurotic for the past 13 years, and I’m a feline who likes to bash genuine, authentic partnerships. Military brat, ma and dada some served successful the Army. So, I’m a ‘Go Army, bushed Navy’ feline — 31 years combined betwixt them. To spot the interaction we’ve been capable to marque implicit the past 13 years, doing things to marque our subject members cognize they’re not forgotten, it does thing for me," helium explained. "If it’s doing thing for me, it’s doing thing for these families we get to impact, to marque their lives a small spot easier. It’s not a escaped car. I accidental that because, yeah, they didn’t person to wage wealth for it, but determination was sacrifice for america and our freedoms to beryllium capable to get this benignant of treatment. We privation them to cognize that, ‘Hey, man, we admit you.’"

(From near to right) Mark Steiding of Kenwood Auto Body, NFL fable Robert Griffin III (RGIII), SPC Patrick Huber (veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard), USAA Senior Vice President Rob Braggs and Dale Moss of NABC Recycled Rides airs astatine USAA's Army-Navy Game NABC Recycled Rides Car Gifting successful Baltimore, MD, connected Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Edwin Remsberg)

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Griffin said that Huber, a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan, made definite to instrumentality a ace astatine him during their clip unneurotic astir the Washington Commanders, who the Baylor merchandise was drafted by.

And Griffin besides loved seeing Lewis’ nine-year-old son, 1 of his 5 children, "going ballistic" erstwhile helium realized what was happening.

"They got a escaped car to the constituent where, 30 minutes aft the event, he’s inactive sitting successful the passenger’s broadside seat," Griffin said astir Lewis’ son.

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