The North Carolina Tarheels football team got hosed during the ACC's championship weekend. They got hosed at the end of the game and I believed they even got hosed on a much greater extent on Sunday when the almighty CFP went to work picking out bowl game matchups. The Tarheels were left out of the so called "New Year's Six Bowls" in spite of pushing #1 Clemson to its limit in the ACC Championship game and it took a shady call to take away their final opportunity, and in spite of the fact they went undefeated in the ACC and had an eleven game winning streak during the season. The Tarheels drew a bowl matchup against Baylor in the Russell Athletic Bowl (seriously?) in what six weeks ago when it would have been a marquis matchup against two teams that average over 40 points a game.
The Tarheels deserved much better than what they got from the powers that be in college football and they can say what they want but it is about the money. College football is big business and that is how it is treated. North Carolina and Baylor got relegated to a lesser bowl because neither team has a huge road following and either one of them matching up against Alabama, Ohio State, or Michigan State would not be an attractive television matchup. I don not know what the CFP would have done if Iowa and North Carolina would have won.
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