The Vanderbilt Commodores are almost certainly going to be on the outside looking in when it comes to the final College Football Playoff rankings next week. So, star quarterback Diego Pavia is calling for help from the President of the United States.
Vanderbilt has had a strong season, especially by their standards, finishing the regular season with a 10-2 record, marking the first 10-win season in program history.
Though it was undeniably a successful season for the Commodores, the College Football Playoff selection committee was not impressed enough with their performance and resume to put them in the playoff field, as Vanderbilt was ranked just No. 14 in the penultimate rankings, giving them effectively no shot of making the 12-team playoff field when it is announced next week.
With hopes of a playoff berth effectively gone, Pavia turned to an unlikely source for help: United States President Donald Trump.
Early Wednesday morning, Pavia re-shared a post on social media that called for an expanded 16-team College Football Playoff that would have allowed Vanderbilt to compete. In his post on X, Pavia also tagged Trump, asking him to issue an executive order to make it happen.
“MAKE THE EXECUTIVE ORDER PLEASE,” Pavia wrote in his post, tagging Trump and adding an exclamation point emoji and the eyes emoji.
It’s worth noting that despite Pavia’s pleas, Trump has no authority to do this even if he wanted to, since the College Football Playoff is a private organization that is owned by the ten FBS conferences and the University of Notre Dame through the administrative company CFP Administration, LLC.
More than that, it would be logistically impossible to expand the College Football Playoff to 16 teams just weeks before it was set to begin.
Still, you can’t blame Pavia for trying anyway.
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