College football has never been a perfect science. With countless teams across the country, it feels like there’s always a strong case for at least one team left out of the championship series to compete for it all—whether it’s in the current College Football Playoff or the Bowl Championship Series era.
Snubs are a part of the college football culture, so just hours before what is expected to be the Playoff committee’s most difficult challenge yet, maybe it’s a good time to remember some of the worst in the sport’s history.
Here are the five worst snubs during the BCS (1998-2013) and four-team CFP (2014-present):
