re: Josh Pate deepthroating that Alabama dong

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The only explanation we need is why in the frick is Texas in the playoff and not FSU?

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You obviously won’t hear this because you’ve refused to, but there was ZERO chance Bama was getting in without Texas. That’s pretty obvious with Texas being seeded higher. And they weren’t getting in over Florida State without Travis being injured.

Alabama’s resume wasn’t a factor besides the fact that they didn’t have 2 losses to eliminate them. They get in on the “eye test,” because the committee “thought” they were one of the 4 “best.” Which I agree that they probably are. The 2 biggest problems I have:

1) If you’re putting Bama in because you think they’re one of the 4 best, just say that. And be consistent. There is not 1 member of that committee that could honestly say with a stringy face that they don’t think Georgia is one of the “best” 4 teams, that they wouldn’t take them on a neutral site over both Washington and Texas. Which brings me to

2) they don’t have the humility to concede that who they “think” are the 4 “best” teams means shite. We are all proven wrong every year, every week. Washington was a 10-point dog. Bama was a 6-point dog.


And using the “how well they’ve looked the last few weeks” logic is utter bullshite as well. Just a week ago Bama needed a miracle muffed punt by Auburn’s back up punt returner and an even more miraculous 4th and goal from the 31 conversion to escape Jordan Hare, a place where just a week before that same Auburn team got absolutely pantsed by New Mexico State 31-10. AT HOME.

And that was no fluke, Auburn got absolutely dominated. From their own website’s game review:

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New Mexico State (9-3, 6-1) possessed the football for 38 minutes and 50 seconds to Auburn's 21:10, outgaining the Tigers 414-213.

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That is an arse whooping. That happened 2 WEEKS AGO.

Aww, frick it. Just exercises in futility at this point. Nobody’s changing their minds. Everybody has moved to their respective corners and put their fingers in their ears and is just trying to out shout the other side. I’m right. You’re wrong. But I will wave the white flag.

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The only explanation we need is why in the frick is Texas in the playoff

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Because they beat Alabama.

I like Josh, but he does slurp both Bama and Dan Lanning/Oregon.

He tries to hide it, but you can tell there are some relationships he has where he tends to lose his "neutral and unbiased" observer POV. That's 100% okay and just human nature but he will scoff at people some times it seems like when it's brought up.

I'll also note that there are times where he paints LSU in a prettier light than he probably should as well. Don't blame him for it either because his access to info is what makes him so good.

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There is no correct and incorrect in an opinion, that’s the very nature of them. They’re subjective or else they wouldn’t be labeled opinions

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The selection committee just outed themselves as the most subjective though.

The melt on this site is embarrassing. Go outside and lift weights.

You're really taking this hard.

Yes, it my opinion they got it right. I also said I could see the logic behind FSU getting the 4 seed, or any other combination of Bama, Texas, or Michigan being left out.

What’s really mind blowing to me is that most on here and most that follow the sport agree that Alabama is better than FSU. Most agree that a 12-1 SEC champion has a good enough resume to make the playoff. So with those two things being the case, why the outrage? Didn’t the committee do their stated job in the end? Like I said, someone with a legitimate case had to be left out. First time over, but it happened.

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Opinions informed by objective data are more accurate than opinions formed by bias.

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Why don’t you expound on that.

No problem with his opinion, he knows quite a bit about college football & is entitled to it. But Sunday nite he wayyyyy overdid it, to the extent I changed channels. He made his point in the first 3-4-5 minutes & then went on & on & on.

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You argue that the H2H winner MUST get the nod when the guidelines don’t say that

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How many times do I need to link this?

LINK

Search for the word must.

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You don’t want to talk about SOS being on that same list of criteria,

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I don’t need to, they played head to head and already told you that by TX beating bama, it improved Bamas SOS relative to TX

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and when forced to, you make an embarrassing argument that one game means more than a full season.

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It’s in the guidelines

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Now you follow me here and demand to get rekt again.

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That’s not what happened. I saw you for like the 10th time saying the same thing (at least you didn’t copy and paste verbatim this time). You are the one avoiding disputing what I said.

Cute meme though.