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Look at the odds to make the CFB playoff. It's as obvious as can possibly be that somebody on the committee leaking news to Vegas after how Alabama was -3300 to make the playoffs even before the committee reveal.

Here are some things of note:

1. Most notably, ND's playoff odds are -520 to make the playoffs and +370 to not make the playoffs. Not coincidentally, those are almost exactly the same as the odds for Texas Tech to beat BYU.

2. Relatedly, Miami is -900 to not make the playoff and +570 to make the playoff. Apparently it's unlikely the committee will invite them even if Duke wins the ACC title. (Which would leave the ACC with no playoff teams.)

3. On a more minor note, Alabama's odds are actually now down to -1500 to make the playoff and +790 to miss the playoff. I guess there's a smidgen of chance that the committee will move Alabama out if they get routed by Georgia. The committee actually really didn't completely follow their "Championship Game can't move a team down in the rankings" philosophy last year with how SMU falled from 7th to 12th after losing to Clemson. However, they did follow a policy of not actually dropping a team from the playoffs due to a CCG loss.

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What’s with the double standard between Vandy and Alabama?

Vandy remains barely in the top 15 after a solid win over a ranked TN team? But Alabama needing the refs hope to beat Auburn moves them up a spot?

Regardless of whether ND should have been ahead of Alabama to begin with, moving Alabama ahead of ND on the basis of that abortion of a win over Auburn is BS.

IIRC, didn't LSU's president come up with the idea of the SWC and chair the first SWC meeting, but then decided to not have LSU join the conference?

No, the SEC is probably not quite as tremendous as last year. But it's still the best bball conference again.

For the last time, even if the committee assigns zero penalty to Alabama for losing the CCG, Alabama would miss the playoffs if they lose to UGA and BYU beats Texas Tech. Alabama is currently the last team in, and BYU would take their playoff spot. I mean, seriously, what's the committee going to do? Move Alabama ahead of Notre Dame as some kind of reward for Alabama losing to Georgia?

If Alabama loses to Georgia and Texas Tech loses to BYU, then Alabama is out of the playoffs even if the committee assigns zero penalty to Alabama losing the SEC title game.

Alabama is out of the playoffs if BYU beats Texas Tech and Georgia beats Alabama. I don't know why people don't realize that. The committee already made the decision to rank ND ahead of Alabama. Regardless of whether that was the correct decision in the first place, there would be no reason to reverse that decision based on Alabama barely beating Auburn last week and then losing to Georgia.

This is a bad year to be a bubble team, with how there were hardly any upsets after we quickly figured out how overrated a lot of top 10 preseason teams were (Clemson, PSU, LSU, and to some extent Texas).

The committee itself says that CCG losses won't hurt a team. (At least that's what the committee said and seemed to follow last year, and they haven't said anything contrary this year.)

However, Alabama will seemingly miss the playoffs if they lose the SEC title game and BYU beats Texas Tech. Just due to BYU taking the last playoff spot that Alabama currently holds. I don't really understand Alabama's -3300 odds to make the playoffs on FanDuel.

Jesus Christ. Billy Napier probably had a better resume before UF than Sumrall does. Napier actually had a handful of decent wins like over eventual Big 12 and Fiesta Bowl champion Iowa State in 2020. Sumrall has nothing.