Florida AG Launches Civil Investigation into College Football Playoff Over FSU Snub
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is launching an anti-trust investigation into the College Football Playoff Committee following an unprecedented move that left undefeated ACC Champion Florida State out of the 2023 College Football Playoffs.
Moody sent a civil investigation demand letter on Tuesday to the organization that ultimately said Florida State couldn't compete citing an injury to quarterback Jordan Travis as reasoning.
According to Gary Finest of POLITICO.com, Moody's office wants all documents about the situation, including all communications between the ACC, the SEC, and ESPN.
"As it stands, the committee’s decision reeks of partiality, so we are demanding answers not only for FSU but for all schools, teams, and fans of college football," Moody stated to POLITICO. "In Florida, merit matters. If it’s attention they were looking for, the committee certainly has our attention now."
Moody is a graduate of the University of Florida, a team Florida State beat in their annual in-state rivalry 24-15 but went on to say that no rational person could look at the situation and not question it.
“I’m a lifelong Gator, but I’m also the Florida attorney general, and I know injustice when I see it,” Moody said to POLITICO. “No rational person or college football fan can look at this situation and not question the result. The NCAA, conferences, and the College Football Playoff Committee are subject to antitrust laws.”
The report states that Moody intends to look at "possible contracts, combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, or monopolization, attempted monopolization or commerce, relating to anticompetitive effects of the College Football playoffs on the Group of Five Conferences and Power Five Conferences."
The full letter can be found here.
The Seminoles are set to face Georgia in the 2023 Orange Bowl on December 30.
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