Like other coaches of 10-win teams pounding the table to reach the College Football Playoff this season, Vanderbilt’s Clark Lea is flabbergasted as to why the 14th-ranked Commodores are on the outside looking in entering Tuesday night’s penultimate rankings.
Lea feels Vanderbilt has done enough to make the field and believes there’s a “bias” against the Commodores.
“I don’t know a world that exists where this team doesn’t belong in that field,” Lea said Monday on SEC Network. “I’m learning right now about all the flaws about how we determine who’s in, who’s out. I’m very interested in fighting against any perception. I think there’s a bias against Vanderbilt. I think we’ve been ignored earlier in the season and we were not given a chance. It took us winning our way into the conversation. All we’ve done is line them up and knock them down.”
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