re: The way the voters should view the Alabama rematch situation

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So not necessarily if they played in the regular season, but in the case of LSU v Alabama, yes, because they already played in the regular season (as you stated).

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Are you really pretending not to know the basics of college footballs organization? I mean, I can take your hand and lead you. Here goes.

Teams play an entire "regular season" against other teams in an organizational entity known as a conference. The goal of the members of the conference is to see which member team is best in relation to the rest of the teams. This is measured by overall record. Once this is established, the best team from each division plays the other division since not every team in the conference gets to play one another. The winner is eligible for a bowl berth.

Here's the tricky part so stay with me.

There comes about problems when two teams have the same win loss record. The way our system solves that is to say, well if both teams are equal, lets look at who won head to head to decide who is the best and who gets to advance.

Heres how it all fits in:

The point of sporting competition in general is to determine who, out of two teams that play each other in a game, is the best at the sport they play. SO, therefore, if the national championship is supposed to give two teams a chance to decide who's better (albeit in a bigger stakes game: here the better team is considered not only better but THE BEST), why even bother having it if that has already been decided? Then the "tie breaker" of head to head match up is equal and confusion ensues. All after the better team has already been decided in a sporting competition.