Alabama Is 4th Team In The 2017 College Football Playoffs: Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama

ESPN TV ^ | 12-3-2017 | blam

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This announcement is being made from a TV broadcast. This is from the National Football Selection Committee.

Alabama has been chosen as the 4th team to participate in the 2017 college football playoff.

More to follow as soon as it hits the press.

[kosciusko51]

I would love to see a 8-team playoff.

[dfwgator]

And Bama’s loss was on the road to a full-strength Auburn team.

Without Kerryon at full strength yesterday, Auburn was not the same team.

[dfwgator]

Four is enough. You lose two games, you really have nothing to complain about.

[kosciusko51]

And even in the Big 10, he is still losing to Saban...

[HonkyTonkMan]

Central Florida undefeated. I get strength of schedule, but they should have a shot.

[ratzoe]

This is why we need an eight-team playoff format. There’s plenty of time in December for the first-round games. The second round would be the traditional New Year’s Bowl Games. The final would be played in mid-January. What’s so hard about it?

I'm all in for a 8 team playoff..1st round New Years Day, 2nd round 2 weeks later..Championship on Super Bowl Sunday..College Superbowl at 1pm, Pro Superbowl at 6pm. Just pipe dreaming..:)

[TXBlair]

Let me be the first (hopefully not only!) person on this thread to pull for Oklahoma.

[dfwgator]

Well he did get one win over Saban at OSU in 2015.

[SomeCallMeTim]

OU SUCKS!

[dfwgator]

I’m pulling for OU, as well. But I think Clemson will repeat.

[RightField]

Yep, especially with the downturn in NFL ratings. Lots of TV and advertising revenue being ignored. Plus, there is always too much time between the selection and the playoff games.

[All Blue State]

All red states, works for me-

[Metrobank]

Alabama isn’t the same team this year. Clemson will knock them off.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Wonder if the committee also took it into consideration that Auburn didn’t have their -A- game without a healthy Kerryon Johnson, their QB looked like Stafford without a running game.

[kosciusko51]

So if Auburn won yesterday, you would have excluded them from the top four?

[dfwgator]

Why would Dabo leave Clemson? Seems to me they’re a pretty elite program already.

[kosciusko51]

True.

[dfwgator]

So if Auburn won yesterday, you would have excluded them from the top four?

If Auburn won yesterday it would have been: Auburn Alabama OU and Clemson

[TXBlair]

UCF isn’t the only one with strength of schedule issues. And, hey, they did have a thriller against a top 25 team yesterday. Finishing the regular season undefeated should count for something; no one else managed to do that! UCF is the perfect example of why there should be an eight-team playoff.

[dfwgator]

Not saying a two-loss team shouldn’t have gotten in but let’s say if Auburn was left out, I would have said the same to them.

But we all know, fair or not fair, that the SEC has an advantage over the other conferences.