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but i still think positioning Alabama at 9 and ND at 10 is just a safeguard to keep Alabama in the field and protect the ACC from the disaster scenario. If Georgia and Texas Tech wins, I think they will move ND back to 9 to avoid the direct comparison to Miami. I feel like the committee (and really the TV execs) wants ND in the field, but also wants to avoid Miami and ND being next to each other. However, they also want to avoid the ACC sabotaging itself, so they will pull the pin on the grenade and put Miami in over ND if Duke wins and BYU loses.

Others on here have argued that Miami probably should be above ND even though their losses are worse. I can't disagree with that, but much like the questionable move of Alabama over ND this week, something that had no justification and was clearly done to protect certain teams, a sudden rise of Miami over ND at the 11th hour would be even worse. If Miami isn't better than ND today, what could be different on Saturday night/Sunday morning. I guess we should all hope that Boise St wins the MWC so they committee can't use that as a deciding factor.

But we are only in year 2 of the 12-team format and it is clear that the committee is already doing bracket manipulation to get a desired outcome.