The College Football Playoff committee lied about what matters after lastest ranking for the Alabama Crimson Tide
Alabama gets punished for something they should be rewarded for in latest rankings.
It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means: it’s time for the College Football Playoff rankings, and for the committee to be wrong once again.
Everyone was waiting to see where the committee would rank the Alabama Crimson Tide after a brutal loss at home to a ranked Oklahoma Sooners team. The Crimson Tide lost their first game of the season, then went on to rattle off win after win with one of the hardest schedules in the country.
Of course, they would eventually hit a bump in the road, and the committee penalized them for it, and showed once again that the system is flawed. They lied about what mattered the most by ranking the Notre Dame Fighting Irish over Alabama for no reason.
Alabama comes in at No. 10 and is somehow behind Notre Dame
Alabama was ranked fourth as it came into the matchup against Oklahoma, who were then ranked 11th, on an eight-game win streak. They weren’t cupcake wins like other teams around the country; it was an SEC gauntlet against Georgia, Vanderbilt, Missouri, Tennessee, South Carolina, and LSU.
The Crimson Tide came up short and lost to the Sooners by only two points, thanks to multiple turnovers.
Apparently, that loss was worse than people think, and Alabama’s schedule means absolutely nothing, as the College Football Playoff committee showed by putting them as the 10 seed,and Notre Dame at ninth.
Notre Dame doesn’t compare to Alabama at all, and the committee got it wrong
The resumes of Notre Dame and Alabama are black and white when compared. Alabama has the best strength of schedule among the entire top-25 rankings, a better strength of record than Notre Dame, and a way better record against ranked teams.
The Crimson Tide’s resume shows a 4-1 record against ranked teams, while Notre Dame is 1-2 with its only ranked win against the USC Trojans.
There’s no excuse to have Notre Dame ranked above Alabama after it lost to its two hardest games on the schedule against the Texas A&M Aggies and the Miami Hurricanes.
If you want to be a respected top-10 team, then win those games. They wouldn’t survive the SEC schedule Alabama had to fight through after losing Week 1 to the Florida State Seminoles. Yes, that was a bad loss to start the season, but it showed the rest of the year that it’s legit and one of the best teams in the nation.
The College Football Playoff selection committee chairman, Hunter Yurachek, said that Alabama’s losses were worse than Notre Dame’s, and that’s why they ranked them where they did. Wins mean nothing now; it’s all about how bad your losses are.
“You look at the losses of Notre Dame vs. the losses of Alabama,” Yuracheck said. “That was really one of the defining metrics that we used.”
The committee decided to penalize Alabama rather than acknowledge its strength of schedule and the impressiveness of its win streak against ranked opponents. Quality wins don’t matter like they say, but Alabama still has a chance to be in the driver’s seat and show they got it wrong if they continue to win.
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