College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock responded to Florida Senator Rick Scott and several other Florida Congressmen over their demands for "full transparency" from the selection committee about why undefeated Florida State was left out of the playoff.
In a letter sent Friday, Hancock told Scott the decision to rank Florida State No. 5 was based on two principal reasons: The protocol the committee uses requires it to take injuries into consideration, and it determined Jordan Travis' season-ending injury "caused the committee to believe that there were indeed four teams that should rank higher than FSU.