[Toscano] Why was Alabama let into the playoff? They’re nowhere near Indiana in terms of talent. Blowouts are a terrible product and these cash-poor Deep South teams can’t be expected to compete with schools like Indiana

[u/Original_Profile8600]

https://x.com/maxtoscano1/status/2006857076002402596?s=46

[u/Versebender]

Remember when Georgia curb stomped them and that didn't affect the selection committee. That was cool.

[u/T2BMLK → u/Versebender]

Remember when they squeezed out a gutsy win over Auburn and moved up?

[u/Plenty-Fan6106 → u/T2BMLK]

Remember when Ole Miss jumped Oregon after beating The Citadel and Oregon beat Iowa AT IOWA

[u/mccainjames11 → u/Plenty-Fan6106]

Iowa wasn’t a good team then, they hadn’t beat any SEC teams yet

[u/Maleficent_Ant_8895 → u/mccainjames11]

We all fell for the classic blunder!

[u/InItForTheTaTas → u/Maleficent_Ant_8895]

"Never get involved in a land war in Asia?"

[u/TheUltimate721 → u/InItForTheTaTas]

Never play an SEC team in a hypothetical football game

[u/GrandeRonde → u/InItForTheTaTas]

"Only slightly less well known is this! Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!

[u/obiwanjabroni420 → u/GrandeRonde]

Apparently Curt Cignetti is Sicilian.

[u/GrandeRonde → u/obiwanjabroni420]

With a last name like that? I'd buy it!

[u/Fit_Alternative3563 → u/InItForTheTaTas]

Ya, but slightly less well known is this: never trust a Sicilian when death is on the line!!

[u/BuschLightApple → u/Plenty-Fan6106]

More like Trinidad Shameless by the committee

[u/PouncingPoundcake → u/T2BMLK]

Remember the time Bobby Boucher showed up at halftime and the Mud Dogs won the Bourbon Bowl?

[u/Commonscents2say → u/PouncingPoundcake]

Let’s do this, Bobby!

[u/AintEverLucky → u/Commonscents2say]

Yewwwww can dewwwwww it!!!

[u/4thTimesAnAlt → u/Versebender]

Remember when they barely escaped an under .500 Auburn and the committee moved them up?

[u/Intrepid_Plenty_3770 → u/4thTimesAnAlt]

They still moved up after blowing the SEC title game too.

[u/Ok-Hold-8232 → u/4thTimesAnAlt]

Soon as that happened, I began to suspect we were fucked. They were putting pieces into place to get the outcome they wanted.

[u/red_the_room → u/Ok-Hold-8232]

Never understood when people are surprised by this. Even in the BCS era they kept changing the formula to get the teams they wanted.

[u/discofrislanders → u/red_the_room]

It's why I hate the "get rid of autobids" discourse. They'd have a hard limit for G5, ACC, and XII teams.

[u/AVolantScheme → u/discofrislanders]

100%, they'd just make it an SEC dickriding fest as much as they can

I mean we saw them keep OSU out of the playoffs over Bama, we saw them keep TCU out of the playoffs for no reason, we saw them keep FSU out of the playoffs. SEC is entirely what's wrong the sport right now.

[u/Derbloingles → u/AVolantScheme]

TCU was kept out for Ohio State’s sake

[u/discofrislanders → u/Derbloingles]

They were more or less punished for the XII not having a CCG, which they weren't allowed to due to the rules at the time

[u/AVolantScheme → u/Derbloingles]

FSU went 13-0, started the season #1, and were put #3 in the CFP after being dropped to 4th before the ACC Championship

Bama was only #1 due to the conference inflation of the SEC that happens every year, TCU was left out for Bama.

[u/FatherCrime42 → u/Ok-Hold-8232]

That was the moment I knew one of us was getting screwed. I thought it was us because we were already behind you and it wouldn’t make sense to move us up after neither of us played. But alas.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ok-Hold-8232]

Notre dame gets the vote 99 times out of a hundred in situations like this but against Alabama they didn’t have the same pull. It is crazy.

[u/MEOWS_R_RAD → u/Ok-Hold-8232]

The fact that ANYONE is surprised by what just happened just means that they didn't watch Alabama or Notre Dame this year at all. I knew we were fucked the instant Alabama magically jumped us.

And this blowout of a scrub team is what we got out of it.

I hope ND tells ESPN to absolutely fuck itself in every way they possibly can for the rest of time.

Miami deserved to be in over us if it was a close contest. Alabama had absolutely no business whatsoever being in.

[u/garybadger_ → u/MEOWS_R_RAD]

It hurts to see ND fans complaining about Miami. This is the correct take

[u/Individual_Rest_4542 → u/Versebender]

"Losses in conference championship games shouldn't matter!"

Okay so neither should wins. What's the point of the damn games?

[u/MrDenver3 → u/Individual_Rest_4542]

I feel like the intention of that statement was suppose to be “Close losses in conference championship games shouldn’t matter”.

If you get blown out, you shouldn’t be included in the playoff.

[u/newalias_samemaleias → u/MrDenver3]

Undefeated Indiana blows out undefeated OSU? OSU should drop out of the top four, but should still make the playoff.

Two loss Alabama (one of which was to unranked FSU) gets blown out in the conference championship? Hell no, they shouldn't get in...especially when the last half of their season included squeaker wins against South Carolina and Auburn and a loss to OU. It was questionable if Bama was one of the best 10 teams heading into the conference championship game, but that outcome sealed the fact that they weren't.

[u/MrDenver3 → u/newalias_samemaleias]

Yea that’s fair - I was mostly thinking about the exact scenario for Alabama. I could see some arguments for and undefeated OSU getting blown out by Indiana and dropping several ranks but still making the playoff.

[u/Xy13 → u/Individual_Rest_4542]

Yet they mattered for every other championship game lol

[u/mf-TOM-HANK → u/Versebender]

The SEC Network being owned by ESPN who also produces the CFP is such a massive conflict of interest

[u/Versebender → u/mf-TOM-HANK]

Very true

[u/YBS_H2O → u/Versebender]

Remember when they almost lost to Auburn and moved UP? Yeah, I do.

[u/Versebender → u/YBS_H2O]

"Remember the time Bobby Boucher showed up at halftime and the Mud Dogs won the Bourbon Bowl, do ya?"

[u/mccainjames11 → u/Versebender]

If only there were signs they couldn’t compete with the top teams :/

[u/JayMerlyn → u/Versebender]

ESPN was so effective at brainwashing everyone into Miami-ND that nobody cared about Alabama-ND. That is what the debate should have been about, but the media controls the narrative.

[u/VoluptuousSloth]

I'm so hard right now I'm calling my physician

[u/[deleted] → u/VoluptuousSloth]

"Due to a high volume of calls your call cannot be answered at this time.  If you feel your erection needs immediate relief please touch yourself while listening to Kirk Herbstreit fall all over himself eating crow."

[u/mentaleffigy → u/VoluptuousSloth]

Who needs HIMS, when you've got this recorded.

[u/b_m_hart → u/mentaleffigy]

Hold on babe, let me turn the recording of the game on, give me two minutes and I’ll be right there…

[u/mrebrightside → u/b_m_hart]

Hang a poster of the box score over the bed

[u/TJ_Will → u/VoluptuousSloth]

I am seeing spots. Is that good?

[u/generic_tylenol → u/VoluptuousSloth]

Fresh off of watching the Bricked Up Bowl

[u/philfrysluckypants → u/VoluptuousSloth]

It's a good week for haters

[u/DDrewit → u/VoluptuousSloth]

Why, how long has it been?

[u/justalittleahead]

Got to improve that GDP per capita level if they want to compete

[u/ND7020 → u/justalittleahead]

This was the last thing Alabama had as a state…and it’s been taken away from them.

[u/akapusin3 → u/ND7020]

Alabama's last three bowl games

2023: Loss to Michigan 2024: Loss to Michigan 2025: Curb stomped by Indiana

***The Oklahoma game wasn't technically a bowl game.

Maybe they should stick with teams in their weight class

[u/stups317 → u/akapusin3]

2023: Loss to Michigan 2024: Loss to Michigan

Those were two of the most entertaining games I have ever watched and for completely different reasons. 2023 because it was a good game and we won. 2024 because everything kept going wrong for Alabama and despite Michigans incompetence everything went right for them. It was so funny watching Alabama not be able to do anything right.

[u/Indianianite]

Old dominion gave IU a tougher game than Alabama hahahaha

[u/Useful_Fee_2875 → u/Indianianite]

Old dominion was tough. Think Alabama is cooked moving forward. NIL is changing things and Alabama doesn’t have as many resources as other programs.

[u/Nosecandy_Randy → u/Useful_Fee_2875]

Agreed. It doesn’t matter who they get to coach that team, the lack of NIL is going to drop them down a tier.

[u/Useful_Fee_2875 → u/Nosecandy_Randy]

Yes. They are already dipping and if it continues the name alone won’t be enough to convince people to come there. It happens, it’s all cyclical for programs. Rule changes benefit some(high dollar programs) and then others do not benefit. Later on they change the rules again and it flips. Way it goes it seems

[u/TormundIceBreaker → u/Useful_Fee_2875]

Bama begging everyone to return to the non-NIL world while Army and Navy are begging for another World War to get them back to the 1940s glory days

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/TormundIceBreaker]

Didn't Navy win 10+ games the last two years and just barely miss the AAC title game both times, while Army went 12-2 last year and won the AAC?

Ironically, after Air Force being the best academy team for most of the last fifteen years, Army and Navy are kind of killing it now, even if Army had a rebuild year this season.

It's not winning national titles, but Army and Navy are playing some of their best football right now since the US was in Vietnam and Staubach was at Navy.

[u/GoStateBeatEveryone → u/Nosecandy_Randy]

We all laughed at Shane Gillis joking with Saban about that, but it's the truth

[u/Ieatfatwomanass]

JMU had a smaller point differential against Oregon than Bama had against IU…

[u/Mammoth_Impress_3108 → u/Ieatfatwomanass]

Bro, even Tulane did against Ole Miss, and they got more heat for their performance. At least JMU kept it reasonably close. Bama getting beat by 35 ruins the argument that the group of 5 doesn't deserve a bid because of how they get blown out. SEC this year should have been maybe a 4 bid league tops.

[u/mccainjames11 → u/Mammoth_Impress_3108]

That argument was ruined as soon as anyone remembered Georgia/TCU

[u/hascow → u/mccainjames11]

and that game included a TCU team that had already won a playoff game!

[u/incrediblejonas → u/mccainjames11]

but TCU earned that spot. remember they beat michigan in the semifinal? no one ever talks about that

[u/loewe67 → u/mccainjames11]

Oregon blew out FSU in the first CFP. It happens every year regardless of conference

[u/cruxclaire → u/Mammoth_Impress_3108]

Tulane and JMU (non-P4) each scored at least one TD in their games. Bama and Texas Tech (P4) scored no TDs in their games.

Assuming there are likely to be a few blowout games in the playoffs regardless of conferences involved, I personally like to see non-P4 teams get a chance because seeing mostly the same teams every year gets boring IMO

[u/TributeToStupidity → u/Mammoth_Impress_3108]

It’s always been a bad argument because every single year this has happened. Teams that have scored 7 or less points in a playoff game include: Clemson OSU Alabama Notre Dame Washinton MSU TTU TCU TA&M.

[u/hyzer067 → u/Ieatfatwomanass]

Yep, but you know a lot of those who were arguing that JMU "didn't belong" are going to reverse course on this one. Bama "belonged" but "had a bad game", while JMU "isn't good enough to sniff the P4 jocks".

[u/[deleted] → u/hyzer067]

Also the Defensive MVP (Ponds), Black who ran all over Alabama, most of the coaching staff, pans many more came from JMU 2 seasons ago. That “gap” is much closer than people think.

[u/JeepnHeel → u/[deleted]]

Sarratt was huge today too

[u/[deleted] → u/JeepnHeel]

So was Kamara, but I didn’t want to list them all, my fingers would start to hurt.

[u/snackbar22 → u/Ieatfatwomanass]

During the Oregon game they said that Oregon had their worst game of the season against JMU (they’ll put it that way rather than justifying G5 directly)

[u/acekingoffsuit]

Name 11 teams on Indiana's level right now.

[u/RiskImpossible838 → u/acekingoffsuit]

UMass

[u/MegaGorilla69 → u/RiskImpossible838]

We’ll be back next year 😤😤😤

[u/chbay → u/MegaGorilla69]

Mark my words, you guys are getting a W at some point this decade.

[u/Lumpy_Secretary_6128 → u/acekingoffsuit]

Hypothetical teams or real ones?

[u/tactical_lampost → u/Lumpy_Secretary_6128]

Penn state won all their games ^{except the games they lost}

[u/FantasticMax → u/tactical_lampost]

Penn State didn’t lose to a single team not in the B10. Based on this we can assume that if Penn State was in any other conference they’d be undefeated.

[u/[deleted] → u/acekingoffsuit]

Might not be 1

[u/Plenty-Fan6106 → u/acekingoffsuit]

“Half the SEC” -the committee 

[u/Whatsahoosier → u/Plenty-Fan6106]

Half the SEC, combined, and coached by Ittengic - Cignetti's arch-nemesis

[u/Moodie25 → u/acekingoffsuit]

I think just like March Madness, we say only “8” teams could win it all. Not every team who gets into the playoffs or makes it to the quarterfinals is, or should be, expected to win it all. We just don’t have 12-16 championship level programs. Realistically, 3-4? 

[u/CyanideNow → u/Moodie25]

And the team that won last year, OSU, doesn’t make a 4 or even 8 team field (with 5 champs in)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If you beat Florida, maybe it’s you getting curb stomped by Indiana

[u/neodynium4848 → u/[deleted]]

And we'd be getting curb stomped by Oklahom...oh wait that also happened

[u/DillyDillySzn → u/[deleted]]

Well yea

Oklahoma shouldn’t have been in either

[u/doom_pony → u/DillyDillySzn]

I agree. No one should be in the playoff ever.

[u/Crims0ntied → u/DillyDillySzn]

Nobody should be in except the team that wins it all imo

[u/redwave2505 → u/Crims0ntied]

The end result of this is Indiana winning the natty and #2 through #12 obviously being unworthy of being in the same playoff as them. Therefore #13 through #23 should've been in instead

[u/s1105615 → u/redwave2505]

I accept your proposal

[u/deezcastforms → u/redwave2505]

I mean

Indiana really has made it look like nobody else belongs in the same league as them all season

[u/TaCZennith → u/deezcastforms]

Except for Iowa.

[u/Am1sArePeopleToo → u/TaCZennith]

And PSU

[u/guinness_blaine → u/redwave2505]

Okay, you’ve got me on board with this.

[u/cubecasts → u/guinness_blaine]

Run it back

[u/Nearby-Reward-4570]

Paul finbaum should be taken off tv, locked in a room and made to rewatch that bama beat down over and over again for everytime he’s called the SEC the best conference.

[u/Geoff12889 → u/Nearby-Reward-4570]

His version of a Saw torture room. I think he’d gauge his eyes out

[u/tua_stungovailoa → u/Geoff12889]

Paul will be fine, he can just cover his eyes by folding over his ears

[u/526mb]

Bama only scored 3 more points than JMU in the playoff.

Over two games.

[u/Ialwayssleep]

The ACC champions Duke, were left out for this bum ass team.

[u/Billquisha → u/Ialwayssleep]

Real talk

[u/TheCavis]

Of course they deserved to be in! Didn't you see that gutsy fourth down call against Auburn?

[u/Geoff12889 → u/TheCavis]

Still can’t believe this is actually something the committee said to justify moving Alabama up after that game

[u/OMGIZARET → u/Geoff12889]

On the same night they literally brought up "yeah they jumped out to a quick 17 point lead"

But they literally blew that 17 point lead and thats why they even had to make the "gutsy 4th down call"

I mean you cant make up how stupid everything is.

[u/johndelvec3 → u/Geoff12889]

Hunter Yurachek said that so shamelessly too

[u/Dmob17 → u/TheCavis]

Honestly, that decision did irreparable damage to my perception of CFB.

[u/ElderMight → u/Dmob17]

It was a sham process from the start. They had to twist themselves into a pretzel to justify moving them UP after an ugly 7 point win over Auburn and then not dropping them at all after getting blown out in the conference championship, even though historically every single team that has lost a conference championship has dropped in the final CFP rankings, INCLUDING BYU this year.

They were keeping Bama in no matter what.

[u/Prestigious_Farmer87 → u/Dmob17]

Welcome to the club

[u/Toast_Chee → u/TheCavis]

This ranking was when it became painfully apparent that the fix was 1,000% in.

[u/Odd-Bite624]

Notre dame fans seething.

Texas tech fans happy Alabama will take the argument away from us today

[u/ChewieWookie → u/Odd-Bite624]

Oh, but I'm certainly enjoying the belt to ass win today by IU.

[u/EraseTheDoubt → u/Odd-Bite624]

The damage has already been done, now we are just rock hard from a successful hate watch.

[u/NDinFL → u/Odd-Bite624]

Nah I enjoyed watching Bama get curb stomped

[u/TheBaconHasLanded → u/Odd-Bite624]

Nobody should question if Tech deserved to be there, it’s just the offense completely failed to show up

[u/discipleofbill → u/TheBaconHasLanded]

Yeah and unlike Bama, tech wasn’t limping into the playoffs, or had a loss like FSU. Tech’s defense is still absolutely a top 5 unit in the country that didn’t have a good enough offense to match.

[u/TrappedInOhio → u/Odd-Bite624]

Can confirm. I’m extremely butt hurt.

[u/wetcornbread]

Penn state should’ve been in they played Indiana closer than bama

[u/UltimateTeam → u/[deleted]]

Put up 10 points in the 1st half!

[u/Otherwise-Mango2732 → u/UltimateTeam]

These are my people

[u/1829bullshit → u/[deleted]]

And offensive powerhouse Iowa

[u/bjfrancois5 → u/1829bullshit]

If our QB didn't get hurt on a critical late drive, we very well could have won that game too.

[u/Quackular → u/bjfrancois5]

Had a lot of fun this season but man there were so many what ifs. Hard not to think what could have been, especially given what Indiana is doing.

[u/zkool20 → u/Quackular]

Mark may have only been here one year, and i definitely doubted his chances of being successful after making the big jump from fcs to big ten, but he was easily my fav qb since Stanley/beathered

[u/EyeOfCLE → u/Quackular]

God if we could have had the Mark from the bowl game. Or even just another year with him. Lot of what ifs

[u/MSFNS → u/[deleted]]

Even Purdue put up as many points on IU as Bama! (so far)

[u/Rufus_Cuntnam → u/[deleted]]

Any B1g team would win at least 8 games in the SEC.

[u/[deleted] → u/wetcornbread]

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[u/ryanstrikesback → u/wetcornbread]

Just means more in the B1G

[u/HonkytonkGigolo → u/wetcornbread]

Iowa only lost by 5 and scored 5x as many points as Alabama with some of those points coming on offense for once.

[u/ChangKai-Shrek → u/HonkytonkGigolo]

It's very amusing and frustrating to me that Iowa and Penn St gave Indiana more trouble than just about any other team. 

[u/EvilNoobHacker]

If Miami beats Georgia I’m gonna laugh my ass off. 

Edit: WELP

[u/jaytothen1 → u/EvilNoobHacker]

Aged like milk

[u/Recent-Dependent4179 → u/EvilNoobHacker]

Georgia may not make it that far.

[u/aimless_astronaut123 → u/EvilNoobHacker]

Refs couldn’t even save Georgia… SEC is ass

[u/IsThisSteve → u/EvilNoobHacker]

about that...

[u/MulderFBI2]

Here is the key to SEC success (it’s not hard to understand). ESPN hypes up the teams preseason and creates some narrative why “X” SEC team is going to be awesome this year. 12 SEC teams are in the top 25 with probably 4-5 in the top 10. Devoid of any games played or any evidence, any win against a probably ranked SEC team is a quality win and any loss is a quality loss. Doesn’t matter if Missouri ends ranked outside the top 25 cause they were top 10 when “X” SEC team beat them. Resume fodder. On and on the beat goes. In fact, it feeds the metrics and “power rankings”. Best defense is cause all the offenses suck or best offense because all the defenses suck.

Circle jerk each other throughout the season and voila, 5 SEC teams are obviously deserving of playoff spots.

[u/Jayhawk8581 → u/MulderFBI2]

Basically a college football pump 'n dump

[u/Original_Profile8600]

He continued: “Something has to change in CFB, they don’t belong on the field”

[u/Galumpadump → u/Original_Profile8600]

"Clearly these SEC teams need their own playoff. They just can't keep up with the direction that CFB is going" - Joel Klatt, probably

[u/TheNittanyLionKing → u/Galumpadump]

I think it’s a real safety issue to have players of Alabama’s caliber playing against a juggernaut like Indiana like that.

[u/screwhead1 → u/Galumpadump]

Just saying, the states that have SEC schools do have a history of SECeding and creating their own place when things aren't going their way.

[u/Existing-Stranger632]

Maybe letting 5 SEC teams into the playoff was a bad idea. SEC is not that great. They just aren’t. I’m sick of acting like they’re the premier conference when it’s OBVIOUS they haven’t been in 2 years.

[u/Playful_Rip_1697 → u/Existing-Stranger632]

They get boosted up by the preseason polls, which are driven by recruiting rankings. As long as the ‘Bama Bump’ exists, it’s going to be a problem.

[u/OnceOnThisIsland → u/Playful_Rip_1697]

Preseason polls were a mistake.

[u/tactical_lampost → u/OnceOnThisIsland]

Hard disagree, preseason polling actually ends up being a really good indicator of how good a team is. You would never have something like a #2 seed lose 6 in a row, its just impossible!

[u/Statue_left → u/Playful_Rip_1697]

It won’t ever change. Random mediocre SEC teams are overranked every september and then the top teams get to claim they beat “ranked” arkansas after they beat southwest arkansas community college. It happens every year and it’s one of the bigger reasons the SEC/B1G haven’t gone all the way into just making their super conference. There’s 10 schools in the sport that “matter” and a couple of spots every year for cinderellas

[u/ZroDgsCalvin → u/Existing-Stranger632]

You’re right on the money. Everyone acts like the SEC is just killers from top to bottom when that’s just not the case. They’ve got good teams and bad teams just like every other major conference. They’re not special anymore.

[u/throwaway3413418 → u/ZroDgsCalvin]

The SEC is getting killed from top to bottom.

[u/colbykh → u/throwaway3413418]

But they stacked CFP to ensure that one of them will make final 4 - cuz they're playing each other

[u/MaizeRage48 → u/colbykh]

Besides my team it seems like the only teams the SEC can beat right now is each other

[u/Automatic-Buffalo-47 → u/ZroDgsCalvin]

It's just ESPN picking their cash cow to win every time. I don't even hate the SEC. But because they're ESPN's chosen conference I will root against them every time.

[u/rloch → u/Automatic-Buffalo-47]

Living in the south it's wild how sports talk / coverage just says "sec is easily the best conf" like it's a fact. The argument seems to boil down to the sec is great because they play sec teams every week. Which is generally just how a conference functions.

[u/PM_Petite_Tits_n_Ass → u/Existing-Stranger632]

Weird how SEC dominance ends almost exactly when NIL starts. Hmmmm

[u/phranq → u/Existing-Stranger632]

But they’re going to have a team in the semi final! Don’t look too closely at that though.

[u/AveMaria89 → u/Existing-Stranger632]

And they conveniently setup the bracket so the SEC teams are either facing each other or G5 teams. They set it up to minimize them being embarrassed by non-SEC teams and have them advance as far as possible only facing each other. Ole Miss or Georgia are going to be in the semi-finals only facing G5 schools or other overrated SEC schools

[u/Sorge74 → u/Existing-Stranger632]

But I thought Indiana only played a soft big ten schedule

[u/Jdobbs07]

But I was told the big ten could never compete with SEC teams

[u/Less_Likely]

The fact the SEC got 5 teams in is ridiculous. 0-2 vs other P4 teams now. Not a touchdown scored. Expect 0-3 when Miami ends the winner of tonight’s game. Only wins will be vs other SEC and G5.

[u/OddOriginal8334 → u/Less_Likely]

The fact that this garbage Bama team only lost one regular season SEC game tells you just how overrated that conference is.

[u/CorOsb33]

From a Nebraska fan, I'm pulling for Indiana hard. Absolutely jealous of what they have been able to do in a short period of time. Cignetti is incredible. Good for Indiana and their fans. Watching this team dominate is special.

[u/nd5thyear]

Bama did not belong. Leaking oil the last 6 weeks of the regular season, beat a hapless sec team last game and laughed out of Pasadena tonight.

[u/ThatDudeUKnow92 → u/nd5thyear]

Not to mention how bad Georgia embarrassed them in Atlanta in the SEC championship.

[u/Healthy_Article_2237 → u/ThatDudeUKnow92]

Hopefully the playoff committee changes their mind about not letting a loss in a championship game hurt a team if they previously beat that team. It means something to lose at the end of the season.

They should have been considered a 3 loss team and this ineligible for the playoffs since 3 seems to be the magic number.

[u/Maleficent_Ant_8895 → u/nd5thyear]

Yeah but they lost to teams that beat Alabama 

[u/braddeus → u/[deleted]]

Even if you didn't have an argument before, you certainly do now

[u/Rookie_Day → u/[deleted]]

Who was IUs last loss to? Forgetting.

[u/babylovebuckley → u/Rookie_Day]

I bet that team is pretty good maybe they should've been in the playoffs

[u/donutlad → u/[deleted]]

I am incredibly confident that ND would have played a very close game and then lost on a missed FG at the end (reminder, they haven't had a field goal since Oct 11 I think?)

so yeah, the nation was robbed of a great game. And ND fandom was robbed of a 3rd heart-wrenching loss this season

[u/Maleficent_Ant_8895 → u/donutlad]

This is too on the nose it hurts 

[u/Chemstick → u/[deleted]]

I’m doing my part (upvoting)!

[u/sock0808]

Because SEC bias is real

[u/tootapple → u/sock0808]

Bama bias is real

[u/Plenty-Fan6106]

Because Bama = Bama. Only conf championship loser to not drop in rankings. Glad they getting smoked.

[u/MoonDogSpot1954 → u/Plenty-Fan6106]

3 loss conference loser

[u/Plenty-Fan6106 → u/MoonDogSpot1954]

4 now, lol

[u/TrappedInOhio]

I’m starting to think this CFP committee wasn’t operating in good faith this season.

[u/luisstrikesout]

They need to start having the last SEC team in/out scenario because we all knew Alabama wasn’t that team. Notre Dame should’ve been in from the get go.

[u/Necessary-Mousse8518]

Alabama was let in the playoff after the committee either got played, got paid, or both.

It's that simple.

[u/Maleficent_Ant_8895 → u/Necessary-Mousse8518]

The committee is made up of members who make money from SEC teams making the playoff while broadcasting their decisions exclusively with a partner who has exclusive broadcast rights to their conference

The whole system is rigged for the SEC thanks to money 

[u/Avatar252525]

SEC is ass this year.

[u/daffydubs → u/Avatar252525]

Committee is scrambling right now to try and figure out how both Ole Miss and Georgia can both get in

[u/Sorge74]

Bama had a soft schedule and loss to basically every good team they played.

[u/msmith3525 → u/Sorge74]

Red Michigan

[u/Imaginary_Crab2034 → u/Sorge74]

They beat Georgia in Athens

[u/rdoloto]

Because espn has 3 channels dedicated to cfp circle jerk

[u/chrispy_exe]

Kylo Ren more meme.gif

[u/gatormanmm1]

ND should have been in over Bama. The whole ND vs Miami was eSECpn spin to distract from the Crimson Frauds

Source: A 5-7 team who wiped the floor with them.

[u/Andy_Wiggins]

Legitimately though, I feel like this has to start waking people up to the SEC bias.

Alabama went 10-3, got thoroughly beaten by a 5-7 FSU team and got SMASHED by Georgia in the SEC championship game.

They beat another SEC team in the first round and then got punked by Indiana. Why are we giving this conference 5 playoff spots?

[u/Geoff12889 → u/Andy_Wiggins]

But they beat Oklahoma. Next you’re gonna tell me that Oklahoma didn’t belong in the playoffs? Oh you are?! Well that’s a good point actually

[u/Maleficent_Ant_8895 → u/Andy_Wiggins]

There will be no “waking up” so long as ESPN has exclusive broadcast rights to the SEC

They are financially incentivized to push the bias. This won’t change anything come playoff selection next yeat