About five months after his team was left out of the inaugural College Football Playoff (CFP), TCU head football coach Gary Patterson finally voiced his displeasure.
According to ESPN, Patterson recently told a group of reporters he expected the CFP committee to look over his team. TCU's omission left the Big 12 completely out of the first post-BCS playoff system in college football.
The Big 12 does not have a title game and instead names its champ based on the regular season. TCU and Baylor finished their seasons with one loss apiece, though the former's came at the hands of the latter. The Big 12 did not take the head-to-head matchup into account and named TCU and Baylor co-champions to try and enhance both teams' favor with the CFP committee.
"You can ask (Iowa State coach) Paul Rhoads," Patterson told the reporters. "We were on the field before the ballgame and he said he hopes if we ended up winning for us to have good luck (with the playoff). I told him, 'Paul, we aren't going to the playoffs.' We were the first team playing on that Saturday. I'm pretty good at gut feelings and I watched all the articles going through the week. I actually thought it was the kiss of death when we got moved to third."
TCU went into the final weekend of play ranked third overall in the CFP's top 25, but fell three places after beating Iowa State. Florida State and Ohio State then each rose one spot to round out the CFP's top four.
"I was told why we had a committee was we were going to take all that stuff out of it; I remember talking about the championship games and they shouldn't have mattered," Patterson said. "Their job was to watch all this film and pick the top four teams no matter where you played and what you did. And then, all of a sudden in the end it got down to they played a championship game and we didn't. That's not what we were told. We were told they would pick the four best teams."
