re: Here’s what I don’t understand about the CFP selection that I’m not seeing discussed much

It was never going to matter. ESPN wanted Bama in and found a way to force it. They weren’t going to screw up UT as it is too big of a market and so screwed over FSU.

It’s pathetic and Bama fans will be the main ones claiming things, but Bama absolutely did. It deserve to be in there over FSU or UT.

It was a scam by ESPN to control their bottom line and is exactly why the playoff idea tied to a network was utterly pathetic and nothing more than a money grab.

In the end, the best thing that can happen is Michigan destroys Bama and embarrasses the committee for claiming it was to make the 4 best. Bama was not one of the 4 best teams. Barely beating Auburn on a miracle play, beating a 4 win Arky team at home by 3 and scraping by a bad A&M team as well as mediocre USF showed that.

They needed some shady stuff to beat a bad UTk team too.

Hopefully for once karma will hit Bama, but they never should have been in this position.