They lost to Vandy and a terrible OU team and still get in above a 10-2 scUM?
What on earth does the Bama AD have on the CFP Committee?
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I love it for two reasons: 1. It f's with Miami and 2. It shows the 12 team playoff is even a bigger FUBAR than the 4 team one.They lost to Vandy and a terrible OU team and still get in above a 10-2 scUM?
They lost to Vandy and a terrible OU team and still get in above a 10-2 scUM?
Bama's resume with 3 losses is much more impressive than the canes. um has not beaten a ranked team all year and struggled against numerous mid-tier teams.
I mean I love it (scUM) and hate it (Bama).
They have to have a minimum of 4 SEC teams in this; I think it may be a law or something.
I think Old Miss' resume is more impressive than Bama.
thats fine, as long as um doesn't get in
Alabama lost to TWO 6-6 teams. OU smoked them 24-3. What a joke
4 Sec and 4 BIG. Thats the rule. I think there will be a time when you see an 8-4 BIG or SEC team make it.
Make it 16 teams. BIG Gets 4 auto, Sec gets 4 auto, then fill out the rest.
I would love nothing more than to see the playoffs without Alabama…..even for one year!
I hate ND....but wouldn't mind seeing them mauling Alabama. They don't deserve a playoff spot.
Playoff teams don’t get their asses kicked by 6-6 turds with the worst offense in the country — in the final weeks of the season.
No. But I do think they should just be seeded 1-16 and not this conference champ gets a bye thing.
I wonder how long before some of these designated outsider conferences and schools sue the hell out of the ncaa for collusion and epic incompetence.
Even with the new playoff system, it still won’t be a recognized championship by the NCAA. Not until every one of the small conferences get a seat at the table, like they do with the FCS and lower divisions.
Come hell or high water, the SEC and B10 will get (at least) four teams in the CFB every year. This is why FSU wants out of the ACC.
How much influence bot directly and indirectly does ESPN have through all of these changes? No one outside the sec thinks Alabama should be in this year. People want to see Miami play against their home team. They want to see how their teams measure up.. College football is not the NFL and there really isn't sustainable appeal to teams nationwide. There aren't going to be lots.of.long term.sec fans in the Midwest or the northeast even if they are the best conference. People are going to lay attention to their local teams long term or will lose interest altogether.
You think the Big 12 shouldn't be able to make the case that both ASU and ISU should be in the playoff over Alabama? Why shouldn't the Big 12 sue the ncaa? Being left.out is costing them millions. Same with any other conference not named the Big 10 or SEC.
Please read up on the economics, structure and power behind college football. You're clearly not informed of it.
Bama would probably be 11-1 or 12-0 playing one of the Big 12 slates. Would be favored against either team irrespective of game time and location
I am taking delight at the Canes fans melting down about a 3 loss Bama being ranked higher than them and the fact they are going to miss a spot in playoff due to it. The same cane fans who loved last years debacle and who also mocked us for trying to leave ACC and same school who has decided to stick it out in ACC?
Who could have predicted that 8 BIG / SEC teams would be in the playoffs?!? Including a 3 loss Alabama. Nobody saw this coming!! If only something happened a year ago that could have warned us all🤔
Sidebar-I also love how Notre Dame has emerged just fine in all this. In addition to the whole horrible TV deal with ESPN and Raycom, the whole Notre Dame / ACC partnership thing was a complete fiasco too that got ACC zip in the end. Notre Dame will always get the ACC’s second spot with no need to play in the championship game and no need to share TV and playoff revenue.
What a bunch of idiots Swofford and company were. The most incredible part is the ACC is now a garbage basketball conference too so that all went to heck too.
Who could have predicted that 8 BIG / SEC teams would be in the playoffs?!? Including a 3 loss Alabama. Nobody saw this coming!! If only something happened a year ago that could have warned us all🤔
Sidebar-I also love how Notre Dame has emerged just fine in all this. In addition to the whole horrible TV deal with ESPN and Raycom, the whole Notre Dame / ACC partnership thing was a complete fiasco too that got ACC zip in the end. Notre Dame will always get the ACC’s second spot with no need to play in the championship game and no need to share TV and playoff revenue.
What a bunch of idiots Swofford and company were. The most incredible part is the ACC is now a garbage basketball conference too so that all went to heck too.
Bleh, the BCS was not better. But they still managed to leave way too much of this up to politicking. This is why they needed to go with 16 teams and every conference champion gets an autobid. They can leave the politicking to the at-large bids and the seeding process. But that way any team will have a path where some biased committee person can not get in the way of their path to the playoffs. Plus, we wouldn't have seen the conferences self-destruct and the PAC-12 would still exist today in it's original form.
Of course, the Big 10 and SEC would never go for that which is why we don't have it.
Probably. Sure.
Probably is carrying a lot of weight there for a team that lost to Vanderbilt.
That type of bullshit argument needs is ESPN propaganda and needs to stop.
Iowa State is historically bad and yet has taken down top ten teams at Jack Trice every few years.
Bama has no business being in there with the Oklahoma loss. Didn’t just lose, but rather got humiliated and dominated by a .500 team that needed the win to become bowl eligible. Ole Miss deserves that spot more than Bama.
They should never have gone to 12. It's a joke. Should have been 6 at most. I hate this.
Well, Iowa State is historically good this season. It's debatable how much is due to ability versus their schedule.
Same reason FSU got left out last year - ESPN's $3 Billion contract with the SEC.
Yeah they might be favored, but they could and would probably shit the bed. Vandy and Oklahoma happened. No team with 3 losses should be in the playoff unless they win their conference championship.
That’s silly. There are no hard lines for the final at large spot. Lot of 3 loss teams with far better resumes than many 1 & 2 loss teams.
Yeah, it's gotten to a point that if they expand it much further, the playoffs will be half as long as the regular season. If a team plays a conference championship game, they will be playing 13 games before the playoffs and then potentially 4 or 5 more games to win the NC. Those teams better have a pretty deep bench as the injuries will still come.
Maybe they will have to expand rosters even further than what they are now? That will create a need for more scholarship money.
