The Tennessee Vols are being used as an excuse by the College Football Playoff committee for two controversial decisions
The Tennessee Vols aren’t in the College Football Playoff, but they had a big impact on the seeding.
The Tennessee Vols aren’t among the top 25 teams in the final College Football Playoff rankings, but they still had a major impact on the committee’s final decision.
Tennessee, specifically, is being used to justify two of the playoff committee’s decisions — putting Alabama in and leaving Vanderbilt out — in a very contradictory way.
The College Football Playoff committee’s view of Tennessee is bizarre
Last week, the College Football Playoff committee didn’t move Vanderbilt into the top 12 after its 21-point win over Tennessee because the Vols fell out of the top 25 as a result of the loss.
I mean, that’s one of the silliest things I’ve ever seen in college football. Based on that logic, Vanderbilt would’ve been better off beating Tennessee by one point instead of blowing out the Vols on the road. It’s completely understandable if Vanderbilt fans are losing their mind at the way the Commodores were treated by the committee.
Now, on the flip side, the committee used Alabama’s win over Tennessee as a reason to keep the Crimson Tide in the 12-team bracket.
“We evaluated all of those conference championship games and felt like in the end, regardless of Alabama’s performance yesterday, their body of work in those first 12 games when they had probably the best win, arguably, this whole season, winning at No. 3 Georgia,” said Yuracheck to ESPN. “And having to win against Vanderbilt, win against Tennessee as well, that their strength of schedule was the highest in the top 11.”
Yurachek didn’t point out Alabama’s win over Tennessee as the primary reason the Crimson Tide made the playoff, but the fact that their road win over the Vols is being used as a positive while Vanderbilt’s road win over UT doesn’t help the Commodores at all is absolutely wild.
If that’s not proof that the committee is flying by the seat of its pants, I don’t know what is. The logic makes no sense and is completely contradictory. It’s essentially bending the narrative to fit the strange decisions they made.
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