If the issue is "which team is projected to do well in the playoffs," Alabama loses!
The Tide got -3 yards rushing yesterday.
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I get the Miami argument, kind of. Games matter. But...
Bama staying in after all of their losses or even being considered to stay ahead of ND is ridiculous. 3 bad losses show you are not a playoff team. Same can be said for Miami.
Good wins are important but they are negated by blowout losses and/or losses to unranked teams. Context and consistency are important as well, probably mostly important. Isolated data points are extremely misleading and they're used to prove agendas by the disingenuous and self interested.
And the real question/problem is who should be in, what is the goal of the playoff? It's never been defined that I've seen. So the goalposts keep moving. Is it to allow the best teams at the end of the year to compete?
If so, then the context of the record and eye test should be a far superior data point to a simple head to head comparison more appropriately used to annoint conference championship competitors who are more similar. That is especially the case when the head to head determination was razor thin. And when you lose multiple times near the end of the season to unranked teams, that would seem the deciding factor. And when you consider that ND would have been in the conference championship over Miami with one conference loss vs. two, that makes the decision clear.
One of the talking points when Bama beat Auburn was they ran the ball well.
So, that seemed to have been a concern. Well, problem has resurfaced. If you can only throw the ball, then you aren't going to go far in the CFP.
Yeah, against Auburn after failing to do it all year. Any excuse will do.
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This has to matter.
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