re: Alabama #5 in CFP poll

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Shouldn’t osu be right near bama? OSU has two top 20 road wins and blew Iowa out and won @4.

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Your QB is done and your team looks cooked.

Show that you can be an elite team without him and you’ll be in the CFP.

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but they absolutely destroyed South Carolina

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Is this a joke? Destroyed SC???? Well shite, crown their arse. Nobody can top that

all part of the plan

gave them the high ranking so that if they lose they wont fall outside the last playoff spot

we shouldn't be shocked if bama gets in w/ 3 losses

their toughest game left on schedule is auburn at home

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there are 2 things that do keep a 3 loss Bama team out. That is if LSU rapes Bama and Kentucky loses a few down the stretch.

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You think the committee will drop bama EIGHT spots for losing on the road to LSU? They'd have to lose by 50 for that to happen. Kentucky will lose a couple more.

Bama is basically assured a playoff spot unless tehy have 4 losses which aint happening. When all 12 games are played it's entirely possible bama may have lost to the 3 best teams on their schedule yet will still make it in. It'd almost be unbelievable if it weren't so predictable. The committee citing tough signature wins against SC and MSU was comical.

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will drop bama EIGHT spots

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we're how many years in now and people still say things like this. In a vacuum, Bama would land behind Tennessee (13) if they lost this weekend. For sure ahead of Wake Forest, possibly behind Texas Tech as well.

That's without getting into the other impactful games.

That 1st ranking was going to be jacked up because of the circular wins and losses in the sec. If we beat bama

Kentucky > LSU > Alabama > Kentucky

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You think the committee will drop bama EIGHT spots for losing on the road to LSU? They'd have to lose by 50 for that to happen. Kentucky will lose a couple more.

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The polls dropped OSU 8-9 spots after losing to USC on the road.

Everyone will say the QB is different but that legit was not the problem in the USC game

Well, the CFB ranking and the playoffs are a business.

They would much rather not have a ratings dud like TCU or Texas Tech if they can have teams with more name recognition. It isn't fair (if you are not a big television draw) but they will esteem the virtues of the more popular television draw every time that becomes an option.

With apologies to recent FSU example (and older examples like 04 Auburn or 94 PSU) the only way around it for the lesser name is to win all your games like Indiana last year.

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I’m not justifying Bama at 5, it doesn’t really matter right now but maybe the committee is saying Bama is really a 1 loss team considering the loss to Georgia was at best ref incompetence and at worst ref corruption. Worrying over the poll right now is ridiculous I think we lose to LSU this weekend anyway and I doubt we make the playoffs with 3 losses

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You will make the playoffs as of now. Now, how far you go, who the hell knows.

beating Lsu doesn't really solidify much. we are still a 2 loss team. just another road win over a middling foe