Posted on 12/03/2017 9:35:22 AM PST by blam
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.
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I don't think they were overranked. This year there are just no teams head and shoulders above the rest. No major team is still undefeated. Clemson has a terrible loss to Syracuse and Oklahoma's loss to Iowa State at home shows they are no super team.
With no superior team and the many injuries suffered by several teams, things can change drastically from week to week and nothing illustrates that better than the dramatic turnaround from the first Auburn/Georgia game to the second.
I understand. But the committee was overranking Auburn for “getting hot” at the right time. No way should a two-loss Auburn have been ranked at #2 going into the championship weekend.
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Auburn, at best, should have been #4 going into the weekend.
Make it eight teams so teams like UCF this year and Boise State in some past years could be in the playoffs and prove whether or not they can compete.
Pick six from the Power 5, but no guaranteed slots for conference champs.
Pick two from outside the Power 5.
Well he is a Alabama grad and the money that will be offered.
What you said.
***The problem with football in general, is that injuries, as we saw yesterday with Auburn and Kerryon Johnson, can very quickly make a great team a very average one.***
Would you say the same about the Buckeyes mediocre performance last night, because JT Barrett had knee surgery not even a week ago? I’m not really of fan of his playing ability, but he did look, at times, like he did not want to run, especially early in the game. He stopped as soon as he had any opposition.
My heart is with Bama, but, if I bet money, it would be on Clemson.
No, I think UCF needed to be more convincing in their wins to be considered.
Tide against a team they already lost to once...hope they get crushed.
Ohio State or Alabama? Who cares? College football is starting to create a very bad business model. If entire swaths of the country are left out of championship eligibility year after year based on completely subjective criteria, you run the risk of becoming a regional sport. With the declining numbers of kids choosing to play football, college football could become the equivalent of college hockey.
Won’t bother watching.
The whole system is a farce.
If you don’t win your conference you shouldn’t go.
When they have a playoff with only conference champions they I’ll watch.
Alabama didn’t lose to Clemson this season, and are 1 and 1 the last two championship games.
I have an idea, that might solve this problem. Take the two best at-large teams, and make them have a “Play-In”. So Alabama would have to play UCF.......There you go, problem solved.
Auburn gets beat by Ga. and drops to 17 lmao
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Auburn has three loses. Where should they be?
Curious, did you think that OSU should have been in the final four last year?
Affirmitive Action?
They lost this year...and also lost to the team that lost to them this season...
Since the Superbowl began, 10 NFL Wildcard teams have gone to the championship game. Because the conferences are divided, those teams are somewhere between the 6th and 12th seed for the Big Game.
Both Alabama and Ohio State have embarrassing losses in their records. Despite what partisans for both teams are saying, there is no good argument for one team going over the other, and we should not be basing qualification for the College Playoffs on arguments anyway. Eight teams in the playoffs is the answer. We were supposed to stop picking the best teams in college football on the basis of a popularity contest. Four teams is only a marginal improvement.
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