re: What will this years excuse be to put in an undeserving team into CFP?

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I'm sorry but that's just truth.

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That's one version of it.

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It's the only version of it.

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It's your only version of it.

Jeff Long did say it but he prefaced it by saying it was an extreme circumstance and he felt it would never happen

Long also said that championships were absolutely a criteria

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LSU wouldn't have gotten a rematch in 2011, so no.


Inferiority complex much? Alabama didn't get the rematch because they were Alabama, Alabama got the rematch because of the power of the SEC. At that point in time, Alabama had ONE national championship under Nick Saban. The dynasty was just beginning, so our name held just as much weight at that time as LSU's.

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Alabama got the rematch because of process of elimination relative to the other top 5-10 teams that occurred subsequent to that game and, lets be honest, Alabama lost by only 3 points to the no. 1 ranked team in overtime, by a score of 9-6, and, if not for their ineptitude in the kicking game, would've won that game and the argument would've fundamentally shifted to concerning LSU not Alabama. Think about this: subsequent to that "Game of the Century," Stanford lost, OK State lost, Oregon lost, Oklahoma lost, Michigan lost THAT VERY SAME WEEK to Iowa when they only had 1 loss (they finished 2011 11-2 cumulatively), and Arkansas lost the final week of the season TO US when they were ranked #3. All Alabama had to do was TCB and let the bodies float by in the Championship Chase and thats what they done did and it procured that rematch for the natty.

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That is how it was supposed to work when "every game counts".

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That game did count.

Everyone got to see that Alabama was a very good football team and ALMOST as good as the #1 team in the country, the LSU Tigers.

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Think about this: subsequent to that "Game of the Century," Stanford lost, OK State lost, Oregon lost, Oklahoma lost, Michigan lost THAT VERY SAME WEEK to Iowa when they only had 1 loss (they finished 2011 11-2 cumulatively), and Arkansas lost the final week of the season TO US when they were ranked #3

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So what you're saying is Alabama was completely out of the race after losing by 3 points in OT to the #1 team in the country? All those other teams had to do was take care of business smh.


Also, I REALLY don't understand how people are so against quality of loss being a factor. It seems logical to weigh losses very heavily to me..

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2011 was bad because people were looking at who had the "best loss" as opposed to who earner their win in order to put the team they wanted to be in the game, in the game. It was arse backward.

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Alabama still had the better resume. Beating #6 by 24 > beating #8 by 7.

Let's not forget that it was the SEC commish who proposed a +1 for the BCS back in 08. Only the ACC commish supported though. Everyone cried about an all-SEC title game and now we're stuck with a 12 person committee of kangaroos.

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When 6 win teams are good enough to beat you, you don't deserve a spot in a playoff or championship game.

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Who has the best wins should count more than who has the least bad loss, there's nothing you can say that's going to change my mind about that.

and further whats worse is people making up their minds about who they want in the game first and then picking and choosing which stats they want to emphasize vs the ones they want to ignore.

there should be standardized criteria that are applied the determine who is the most deserving to be in and that should be the end of it. Will never happen though because it's a tv show first and a sport second.

The only thing about 2011 that bugs me is how Bama fans dismiss what happens to that oSu team night before the game. They were asked if they wanted to play or wait. Grundy said go ahead but Bama fans act like it was no big deal.