The College Football Playoff isn't perfect, but the actions of one AP voter will have you kissing the selection committee's feet.

Tom Murphy of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ranked Michigan No. 3 and Ohio State No. 5, even though the Buckeyes have one fewer loss and beat the Wolverines on Saturday. His reasoning? He thinks the officials spotted the ball incorrectly on the controversial fourth down play that led to the game-winning touchdown.

Yes, I voted Michigan higher than Ohio State. The Wolverines essentially outplayed their arch rival on the road and I don't think the football reached the necessary 15-yard line on J.T. Barrett's fourth-down run in double overtime. As that was the game-decided play, I appointed myself as the replay official and deemed Michigan the winner. Now, if only the College Football Playoff selection committee would do the same.

I've never been a fan of criticizing voters for outside-the-box thinking in their rankings. If you truly believe in your heart that Penn State is a better football team than Alabama, then by all means rank them No. 1. But you should be able to justify that position with a better argument than "I've decided that I'm not going to accept the result of a fairly decided football game."

After declaring himself a one-man officiating crew, Murphy then had the temerity to chastise Jim Harbaugh for his criticism of the officials.

As a side note, while I admire Jim Harbaugh for speaking his mind after the game, he appeared to pin everything on the officiating, which isn't a good look.

If the outcome of the game were clearly illegitimate, as Murphy claims, then Harbaugh should absolutely be criticizing the officials for not getting it right. But the reason many are bristling at Harbaugh's vociferous complaints is that the margin for measurement error in Barrett's fourth down run was so slim that most impartial parties acknowledge that knowing for sure whether he crossed the line is basically impossible.

If Murphy were truly concerned with administering vigilante AP poll justice, perhaps he would have ranked No. 10 Oklahoma State (on his ballot) over No. 7 Oklahoma. Unlike Michigan, Oklahoma State lost a game that the officials got so clearly wrong that the Big 12 apologized and suspended the officials involved in granting Central Michigan the extra play that cost Mike Gundy's team the game and, quite possibly, a shot at the College Football Playoff.

The selection committee will have many big choices to make on Tuesday. Whatever they end up deciding, let's hope Kirby Hocutt offers a more compelling defense than Murphy did.