re: College Football Playoff using top 4 Conference winners: BCS era

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Bama probably crushes everyone.

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Oregon had a shot.

Last year, I really do feel there were a handful of teams in the SEC that were all about just as good as each other. Alabama, LSU, Texas A&M, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida.

Literally throw those six teams on the field against one another on any given day and I think they'd all have a legit shot to win. Not to bring in the scheduling argument... but at the end of the day, LSU, Alabama, and aTm went 1-1 against each other. LSU and aTm played Florida, and Alabama didn't.

Georgia and Alabama play 10 times, I think Alabama probably wins 6 of them. South Carolina would probably have won the East if they didn't have to play LSU out of the West. It was just all a big cluster.

So yeah, if Alabama enters the playoff as your SEC champion, they'd most likely win it all. But if another SEC team sneaks in the playoff, it might have been a toss up.