‘That’s how it should go’ – Former Georgia QB Aaron Murray shares how he believe Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee should be ranked in the CFP rankings
Everyone has thoughts on the latest College Football Playoff rankings and where Alabama is ranked.
Everyone has some thoughts on the latest College Football Playoff rankings.
And a lot of those thoughts center on where Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee are ranked.
All three of those teams have two losses. Most importantly, Texas beat Tennessee and Tennessee beat Alabama.
So logic would suggest that Texas should be ranked the highest of the three and Alabama should be ranked the lowest with Tennessee sandwiched in the middle.
But that’s not how it looked on Tuesday night when the new rankings were revealed.
Alabama came in at No. 3 with Texas at No. 6 and Tennessee at No. 8.
Former Georgia quarterback and current ESPN analyst Aaron Murray is among those who think the College Football Playoff committee got it all wrong with these three teams.
Murray, like most people with a working brain, thinks it should be Texas, Tennessee, then Alabama.
“My big issue with the entire thing is still how we can’t get Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee in the same pod,” said Murray. “How can we not do that? That’s the reason that Alabama is ranked No. 3, and Texas and Tennessee are ranked No. 6 and No. 8 — even though Tennessee beat Alabama pretty badly.
“Guess what? Tennessee also just beat Kentucky, who’s the No. 11 team in this ranking. It is an absolute head scratcher to me that we have not figured out a way to put those three teams in (the same pod), because honestly, I’d obviously have Texas, then Tennessee after that because Texas beat Tennessee. And then Alabama after that. All three are two-loss teams. That’s how it should go: Texas, Tennessee, Alabama.”
All three teams control their own destiny, but Alabama is the only one, based on the rankings to this point, that has the wiggle room to potentially get into the tournament as a three-loss team.
There’s absolutely some Alabama bias that’s happening here (and it’s being justified by some wonky metrics), and Texas and Tennessee are paying the price.
