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To do otherwise would benefit SEC schools for a "patently egregious missed offensive holding foul" (quote from former NFL referee Terry McAulay) by SEC officials in the ND-Texas A&M game. That officiating failure cost the ND defense the chance to win the game by defending a 4th and goal form at worst the 11-yd line (if you think there could've been an offsetting penalty somewhere unseen), if not the 21-yd line, with 13 secs remaining.

It's not as if the error happened midway through the game or even midway through the quarter. It happened with 13 secs remaining. There was no opportunity for ND to overcome the error.

For the purpose of comparison with SEC teams the Committee should treat the game as suspended at that time, as incomplete, and for playoff comparison treat the teams' respective records as

ND 10-1-INC
Ole Miss 11-1
Georgia 11-1
Texas A&M 10-1-INC
Alabama 10-2
Vanderbilt 10-2
Oklahoma 10-2
Texas 9-3

To do otherwise would confirm a bias already evidenced in the bizarre decision to move 10-2 SEC team Alabama ahead of ND, which I remind you is based on this:

“The debate between Alabama and Notre Dame over the past three weeks has been one of the strongest debates we've had in the room for the past two years that I've been a member of the committee,” He [CFP chair Hunter Yurachek] said. “I think this week as we looked at those two teams and how closely they have been over the past three weeks, Notre Dame went on the road, had a strong win at Stanford, but Alabama went on the road and a rivalry game looked really good, especially in the first half, getting up 17 to nothing. Ran the ball well. Auburn came back at them. They had a great gutsy call on fourth-and-2, late in the [fourth] quarter to get a touchdown, and then got the turnover late in that game.

“And I think that was enough to change the minds of a couple of committee members to push Alabama up ahead of Notre Dame in this week's rankings.”

The SEC must not benefit from an egregious error by its own officials.


Link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OyVcWHeElAA