Alabama schedules FSU to start the season. They were #2 or #3 in every poll. Theses schedules are made a few years in advance. What more can they do? Over the last ten years, no one has scheduled bigger opening games than Alabama. Two of those games were vs Big 10 — Michigan and Wisconsin.
Alabama plays an SEC west schedule. The SEC west has been the toughest division in college football over the last 10 years.
Alabama plays a lightweight before the auburn game every year because auburn does. By the way, has anyone looked at Georgia’s schedule for 2018. They’re playing in the SEC east which should be a cakewalk. No real out of conference opponent either.
We are now in the CFP era. The Big Ten East is the best division inb the best conference from top to bottom, there is no debate. If Alabama had to play another team from the SEC from the east division perhaps they wouldn’t only have 1 loss. And to schedule a LOWER DIVISION middle of the road team like Mercer or The Citadel for next season is a joke on the entire committee selection process.
OSU this year beat UNLV, who then went on to beat Fresno State. So the CFP committee’s justification for not dropping Alabama further in the polls after it’s loss to a now 4 loss Auburn team was that it had 3 top 25 wins, when they fraudulently put Fresno State into the 25th spot in the rankings. What a joke. If Alabama’s best win no. 17 LSU qualifies a team to the CFP then a lot of team’s who were previously held out of the playoff because the committee didn’t want to put 2 teams from the same conference into the playoffs have a right to be angry.