Posted on 11/30/2017 8:15:47 PM PST by blam
The College Football Playoff Selection Committee made the only decision available to it on Tuesday night, leaving Alabama looking from the outside in at the top four ahead of the final weekend of the regular season.
The Crimson Tide went on the road to Auburn with a perfect record, and a place in the SEC Championship Game against Georgia on the line. Both vanished at Jordan-Hare Stadium. And the Selection Committee reacted, dropping Nick Saban’s team to fifth in its fifth, and penultimate, rankings for the season. Auburn jumped from fourth to second courtesy of that 26-14 win, while Clemson moved into first place. Oklahoma shifted up from fourth to third. Miami’s bad loss at Pittsburgh sent it tumbling from second to seventh.
The Hurricanes, though, control their own destiny. Beat Clemson in the ACC Championship Game and Miami is almost certainly in the playoffs (and the loser of that is out). The Sooners will be in if they beat TCU for a second time this season in the Big 12 title game at AT&T Stadium.
Neither of those results, whichever way they fall, really help the Tide although the Committee will face some weirdness if Oklahoma loses against TCU. There is hope, though, for Saban in the other two Championship games. “As the Tide spend SEC championship Saturday at home for the first time since 2013, they will be forced to root for their most hated rival: the Auburn Tigers,” Adam Rittenberg wrote for ESPN on Wednesday morning. If that sounds odd then Rittenberg’s logic is simple enough to understand. If Auburn walks off with the SEC Championship then the Tide’s one loss looks much stronger than if Georgia beats the team Alabama lost to one week previously.
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A TCU win would give the team a big 5 conference championship. Bama couldn't even make it into the conference championship for a shot at second best.
Bama's like Georgia. They choked when it was all on the line. Unlike Georgia, Bama doesn't get a second shot (for all the good that will do the Dawgs.)
You can’t just look at losses. You need to look at wins too.
TCU would have beaten Oklahoma St. (19) and Oklahoma (3).
Alabama’s only good wins are LSU (17) and Miss St. (23) and Fresno St (25)
Bama should have lost the Miss St game...MS handed that win to Bama.
As much as I love my Buckeyes I don’t believe they are good enough to get in. They need an 8 team playoff....pure and simple.
What’s the matter, Alabama’s 24-7 win over Florida St.(3) not good enough for you?
No, it's not.
The first game of the year nobody knows who is good and who is not good. Florida St. being ranked 3rd for their first game of the year was just a guess. Turns out it was a very bad guess. They ended up losing to unranked - Louisville and Boston College (along with ranked - Alabama, Clemson, NC State and Miami). They had no wins over any top 25 teams. FSU was never the 3rd best team in the country.
Ha! Good one.
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