Alabama DESERVES to be in the playoff, and here is WHY!

It’s difficult to imagine an NFL Committee keeping the AFC South winner out of the playoffs for lack of quality road wins.

Clear and Present wrote:

1. Alabama played a weak schedule.

2. Alambama did not even make it to the conference championship. This is an understood criteria of the selection committee.

3. You left out the quality wins of the other teams (I.e Clemson beat Georgia and Miami destroyed Notre Dame).

But, but, but, Alabama is better than the Cleveland Browns!!!!

whoopsies wrote:

I notice you conveniently didn’t talk about Alabama’s wins.

Well Fresno State is now ranked in the AP poll...so they've got that!

Not a Bama fan, but ... wrote:

Go ahead, try to make an argument for why ANY of the one loss teams should get into the playoff ahead of Alabama.

You only talked about losses, not the games they won. Please list all the strong teams that Alabama played and has beaten. If they had played stronger teams, maybe they would have 2 or 3 losses.

Gigdug chi igrruhv ijf eyg wrote:

Not a Bama fan, but ... wrote:

Go ahead, try to make an argument for why ANY of the one loss teams should get into the playoff ahead of Alabama.

You only talked about losses, not the games they won. Please list all the strong teams that Alabama played and has beaten. If they had played stronger teams, maybe they would have 2 or 3 losses.

#2 FSU

Miss State

Miss

Fresno State

Tennessee

LSU

Just to name a few.

Bama roll tide wrote:

Gigdug chi igrruhv ijf eyg wrote:

You only talked about losses, not the games they won. Please list all the strong teams that Alabama played and has beaten. If they had played stronger teams, maybe they would have 2 or 3 losses.

#2 FSU

Miss State

Miss

Fresno State

Tennessee

LSU

Just to name a few.

Lol. In what poll is FSU #2. Lol.

4-8 Tennessee whose only wins were over UMass, Indiana State, southern Miss, and Georgia Tech (in 2OT on a very bad call by the Tech coach)?

Bama roll tide wrote:

#2 FSU not #2 any more, has 6 losses and needed to re-schedule a cupcake to even have a chance at bowl eligibility

Miss State

Miss fired their coach before the season, on a self-imposed bowl ban

Fresno State

Tennessee lol, might as well list Vandy here as well

LSU lost to the mighty Trojans of Troy at home

Just to name a few.

I count 3 good wins (granting you LSU). UCF will have just as many. So all UCF needs to do is lose to Auburn to make the playoff?

Macdaddy wrote:

WRONG. Alabama shouldn't have played a cupcake schedule. Probably will end up without beating a top 25 team at the end of the day. One of the worst schedules in the NCAA. This is what happens.

I haven't done enough research to determine if they should be in or not. But in terms of their schedule, they opened the season with an out of conference game against Florida State. When they beat Florida State, it was #1 vs #3. So they clearly tried to have a huge game there. Like they are supposed to know that Florida State is going to suck?

There other optional games were against 9-3 Fresno State, 7-5 Colorado State and 5-6 Mercer.

They've also beaten the following ranked teams (ranked when they played them), #19 LSU and #16 Miss State.

Being ranked earlier in the season is irrelevant.

Alabama doesn’t have the wins to get in.

whoopsies wrote:

Being ranked earlier in the season is irrelevant.

Alabama doesn’t have the wins to get in.

Neither does OU.

Oops wrote:

whoopsies wrote:

Being ranked earlier in the season is irrelevant.

Alabama doesn’t have the wins to get in.

Neither does OU.

If they win next week they will have wins over Ohio State, TCU x2, and Ok State. That’s well ahead of Bama’s wins.

BMOC wrote:

It's pretty easy how this pans out:

1.) Clemson is a lock at #1. (The U is pretty overrated per usual, but in the very small possibility they win they'd be in)

2.) Oklahoma will have the 2 spot. ( Again similar situation to the ACC champ, if TCU were to win, they'd get in)

3.) SEC champ could be the 2 but either way they'll end up playing Oklahoma (I think it'll be Auburn)

4.) If Wisconsin beats OSU (High likelihood if OSU plays stubs at QB) they get in. If Ohio State wins, that's how Alabama will sneak into the 4th spot.

In summary, PAC 12 is on the outside looking in and the ACC, Big 12, SEC & BIG 10* champs get the nod

*unless that BIG 10 champ is Ohio State, then Alabama will get in

You think tcu gets in w a win? I live in ft worth and don’t think that. They blew Iowa state game and its going to cost them.

whoopsies wrote:

Oops wrote:

Neither does OU.

If they win next week they will have wins over Ohio State, TCU x2, and Ok State. That’s well ahead of Bama’s wins.

In bizarro world.

I would agree that TCU doesn’t get in with a win. Them losing and Wisconsin losing would make things interesting.

whoopsies wrote:

I would agree that TCU doesn’t get in with a win. Them losing and Wisconsin losing would make things interesting.

Sorry, Oklahoma and Wisconsin losing would make things interesting.

Oops wrote:

whoopsies wrote:

If they win next week they will have wins over Ohio State, TCU x2, and Ok State. That’s well ahead of Bama’s wins.

In bizarro world.

In 2017 NCAA football world.

Latest Sagarin Ratings

1 Alabama A = 98.34 11 1 72.09( 54) 0 1 | 2 1 | 99.01 1 | 99.42 1 | 96.40 4

2 Clemson A = 95.51 11 1 76.31( 11) 1 0 | 5 0 | 94.48 4 | 95.51 2 | 96.85 3

3 Auburn A = 95.45 10 2 75.99( 15) 2 1 | 3 2 | 93.61 6 | 94.89 3 | 99.15 1

4 Penn State A = 94.96 10 2 73.09( 45) 0 1 | 3 2 | 96.67 2 | 94.69 5 | 92.47 6

5 Wisconsin A = 94.66 12 0 71.07( 61) 0 0 | 3 0 | 93.25 7 | 94.30 7 | 97.09 2

6 Ohio State A = 94.40 10 2 73.49( 42) 1 1 | 3 2 | 96.13 3 | 94.71 4 | 91.59 8

7 Oklahoma A = 93.59 11 1 74.05( 36) 2 0 | 4 1 | 91.74 9 | 94.36 6 | 96.13 5

8 Georgia A = 93.31 11 1 72.73( 48) 0 1 | 2 1 | 93.86 5 | 92.62 8 | 92.43 7

9 Washington A = 90.62 10 2 71.63( 57) 0 0 | 1 1 | 92.26 8 | 91.11 9 | 87.78 14

10 TCU A = 88.35 10 2 72.84( 46) 0 1 | 2 2 | 88.40 11 | 88.00 12 | 88.00 13

11 Notre Dame A = 88.31 9 3 78.49( 3) 0 1 | 4 3 | 88.92 10 | 88.67 10 | 86.77 15

12 Miami-Florida A = 87.77 10 1 73.71( 40) 0 0 | 2 0 | 85.68 15 | 88.36 11 | 90.92 10

13 Stanford A = 87.62 9 3 75.91( 16) 1 0 | 2 2 | 85.84 14 | 87.07 14 | 90.93 9

14 Oklahoma State A = 86.42 9 3 73.80( 38) 0 2 | 2 2 | 87.74 12 | 87.26 13 | 83.74 18

15 Southern California A = 86.19 10 2 75.12( 26) 0 0 | 2 2 | 83.69 18 | 86.65 15 | 90.48 11

16 Central Florida(UCF) A = 85.36 11 0 63.43( 83) 0 0 | 1 0 | 83.85 17 | 83.18 19 | 89.45 12

17 Virginia Tech A = 85.21 9 3 72.34( 51) 0 1 | 0 2 | 86.50 13 | 85.42 16 | 82.86 19

18 LSU A = 84.14 9 3 70.96( 62) 1 1 | 1 2 | 82.80 21 | 84.77 17 | 85.62 17

19 Northwestern A = 83.88 9 3 72.72( 49) 0 2 | 2 2 | 82.74 22 | 82.82 21 | 86.15 16

20 Mississippi State A = 83.41 8 4 72.20( 53) 0 3 | 1 3 | 83.56 19 | 83.14 20 | 82.85 20

21 Michigan A = 83.12 8 4 74.27( 33) 0 3 | 0 4 | 83.15 20 | 84.41 18 | 81.90 24

22 Iowa A = 82.74 7 5 77.41( 4) 1 2 | 2 4 | 83.94 16 | 82.53 22 | 80.69 27

23 Louisville A = 82.30 8 4 72.83( 47) 0 1 | 0 3 | 81.94 24 | 82.21 23 | 82.45 22

24 NC State A = 81.51 8 4 76.33( 10) 0 1 | 1 3 | 80.84 26 | 81.31 26 | 82.25 23

25 Iowa State A = 81.06 7 5 75.72( 21) 2 0 | 2 3 | 82.35 23 | 79.46 30 | 79.70 28

26 Michigan State A = 80.97 9 3 76.35( 9) 1 1 | 3 3 | 79.90 29 | 81.96 24 | 81.67 26

27 Washington State A = 80.04 9 3 74.12( 34) 0 1 | 2 1 | 80.71 27 | 80.97 27 | 78.06 33

28 Texas A = 79.78 6 6 75.37( 24) 0 2 | 1 4 | 81.12 25 | 79.79 29 | 77.41 39

29 Memphis A = 79.69 10 1 63.08( 84) 0 0 | 0 1 | 78.06 33 | 80.05 28 | 81.86 25

30 Wake Forest

Pac-12

No. 11 USC vs. No. 21 Stanford

8 p.m. on ESPN

AAC

No. 20 Memphis at No. 15 UCF

12 p.m. on ABC

C-USA

North Texas at FAU

12 p.m. on ESPN2

MAC

Akron vs. Toledo

12 p.m. on ESPN

Big 12

No. 4 Oklahoma vs. No. 12 TCU

12:30 p.m. on FOX

SEC

No. 7 Georgia vs. No. 6 Auburn

4 p.m. on CBS

SWAC

Alcorn State vs. Grambling State

4:30 p.m. on ESPNU

MWC

No. 23 Boise State vs. Fresno State

7:45 p.m. on ESPN

ACC

No. 3 Clemson vs. No. 2 Miami

8 p.m. on ABC

Big 10

No. 9 Ohio State vs. No. 5 Wisconsin 8 p.m. on FOX

New Prediction:

SEC Winner: IN

ACC Winner: IN

Big 10 Winner: IN (which sucks, cuz I would love to see OSU get snubbed, but it won't happen)

Big 12: OK IN w/win. TCU IN w win, only if Stanford wins PAC12.

PAC12: USC in w/win and OK loss.

I would LOVE it if the committee had the balls to put in Central Florida iff TCU and Stanford both win (not because they are the 4th best team, but because it is unAmerican to root against the little guy.)

I think Alabama deserves to get in but with the recent loss it is likely the committee will select Saratoga Springs.

Wait, Alabama is #1 in Sagarin ratings still, but you have them getting snubbed? Also, how does USC make up so much ground? Their loss to Notre Dame was a blowout.

Let’s just hope OU, Auburn, and Wisco take care of business.