CFP Playoff Committee shoehorns in Alabama at the last minute for the second year in a row ... this year with 3 losses...

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A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Alabama AD can't handle it:

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Someone might want to let him know that they went 5-3 in conference, including some bad losses ...
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I love the Reader Note for his tweet!

All of Alabamas losses came in conference play. Alabamas non conference schedule was one of the easiest in the country playing two Group of 5 schools, WKU and USF, one FCS school and one Power 4 team, the 5-7 Wisconsin badgers who finished 12th in the Big Ten.
 

mggoph said:
I love the Reader Note for his tweet!

All of Alabamas losses came in conference play. Alabamas non conference schedule was one of the easiest in the country playing two Group of 5 schools, WKU and USF, one FCS school and one Power 4 team, the 5-7 Wisconsin badgers who finished 12th in the Big Ten.
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And let alone that Bama .... has every advantage that few teams have.

But

WAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
 

mggoph said:
I love the Reader Note for his tweet!

All of Alabamas losses came in conference play. Alabamas non conference schedule was one of the easiest in the country playing two Group of 5 schools, WKU and USF, one FCS school and one Power 4 team, the 5-7 Wisconsin badgers who finished 12th in the Big Ten.
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Yep, SMU’s strength of schedule in the non conference was stronger than Bama’s.

The amount of whining is hilarious. People thinking this means strength of schedule doesn’t matter. It does matter, it’s just not the only thing that does.
 




Fly on the wall in the SEC AD’s meetings this year will be interesting.
Will they tear up the already released 2025 schedule?

Alabama schedule looks tougher than other SEC schools on paper.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Fly on the wall in the SEC AD’s meetings this year will be interesting.
Will they tear up the already released 2025 schedule?

Alabama schedule looks tougher than other SEC schools on paper.
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Sounds like a good opportunity for Alabama to try and prove it's one of the 12 best teams next year. They weren't this year. They also weren't one of the four best last year, but that didn't matter to the committee.
 

The college football world has changed and not for the better for Alabama. Nick Saban saw the writing on the wall and bailed. Alabama might become the Nebraska of the south given a few more years. Just like in the case of Nebraska years ago, a few changes to the rules have been made that eliminated some of their most important advantages. They are still killing it in recruiting, but how much of that is just momentum from their recent past?
 

If the 3 losses were close/O.T against the top 4 or 5, they could deserve a spot. Theirs weren’t.
 



GophersInIowa said:
Yep, SMU’s strength of schedule in the non conference was stronger than Bama’s.

The amount of whining is hilarious. People thinking this means strength of schedule doesn’t matter. It does matter, it’s just not the only thing that does.
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Yeah, strength of schedule should matter but winning should matter as much. Some teams do not have the opportunity to schedule as many ranked teams as others do and they shouldn't be punished if they simply don't have the quality in their conference that other do. Also, things shake out different when the season starts. You go schedule what looks like a tough schedule then several teams on the schedule end up not being as good as expected.

So there has to be a balance. Winning 9 games should be pretty iffy for making the playoffs, you shouldn't be a lock for it with three losses just because you had a strong SOS.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Fly on the wall in the SEC AD’s meetings this year will be interesting.
Will they tear up the already released 2025 schedule?

Alabama schedule looks tougher than other SEC schools on paper.
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They really should.
Texas lost to Georgia and because they missed everyone else a second loss to Texas A&M or Vandy or Arkansas would’ve likely knocked them out of the playoff (IMO)

Need better balance. You’re as likely to hurt your good teams with lack of balance as you are to help your medium teams.



Like if Ohio state had Indiana’s schedule, their loss to Michigan would’ve knocked them out rather than just out of the conference title game


Ohio state survives the loss to Michigan because they were 2-1 against the top 3
But if they were 0-1 against the top 3 they’d have been out with that second loss.
 

A side issue, but it's unreal how lucky Indiana was in their scheduling this year. They only played 2 of the top 9 teams in the conference going 1-1 against them, and beat up on the bottom half going 7-0.

Similar for Notre Dame. They had a nice opening week at TAMU, lost to Northern Illinois, then beat a bunch of nobodies.

We have no idea how good those teams really are.
 

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