College football needs Alabama to lose today
By Zach Bingham Another SEC Championship means another game for the Alabama Crimson Tide. They've been really good this season, and some are projecting they may end up being the greatest college football team ever if they win a national championship. But the college football season would be much better off if Bama was upset […]
By Zach Bingham
Another SEC Championship means another game for the Alabama Crimson Tide. They've been really good this season, and some are projecting they may end up being the greatest college football team ever if they win a national championship.
But the college football season would be much better off if Bama was upset by the Florida Gators.
An Alabama loss today would do a few things. First, it would bring the top of the Playoff Rankings back down to size. Week 11 shook the college football world, with #2 Clemson, #3 Michigan & #4 Washington all losing to lesser opponents. This was all while, Alabama was drumming Mississippi State 51-3.
That week moved everyone back and Ohio State up. If Nick Saban somehow falls to Florida it gives hope to the entire country that, lets face it, already thinks the Crimson Tide are unstoppable.
A Bama loss, along with showing some Saban kryptonite, also does exactly what the College Football Playoff was set out to do: question the SEC. Everyone who plays in another conference around the country hates the Southeastern Conference with a passion. I believe, if it weren't for the seven straight National Championships between 2007-2012, we wouldn't even have a playoff system.
What college football truly wants is an upset. They want a new rise to power and a new team to talk about, and I think they're right. Don't get me wrong, the SEC is consistently the best conference year after year but parity makes sports better. The reason why the NFL is so successful, is because any team (besides the Browns and the Jags) has a reasonable chance to rise to power through the draft and win a Super Bowl. College football wants the same thing.
The one conference that hates the SEC the most, is the Big 10. People from the midwest loath southern football because the schools in the south talk trash and back it up.
If Alabama does go on to beat Florida like they are predicted to, in my opinion, the perfect scenario is that both Clemson and Washington don't get in, and it becomes an Alabama vs the Big Ten Playoff. If those dominos were to fall, I think the committee puts in Ohio State, Michigan and the winner of the Big Ten Championship game (Wisconsin or Penn State).
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The seeds would be #1 Alabama against #4 (Wisconsin/Penn State) and America would get a rematch of the epic overtime game between, #2 Ohio State and #3 Michigan.
Now that is something I think college football fans could get on board with. Coaching power drives the collegiate game, and this would put Nick Saban, Urban Myer, Jim Harbaugh and James Franklin all in the limelight.
A lot can happen this weekend, but I will say that the College Football Playoff has changed the game for the better!
