you say that now but Florida State was the only undefeated team. You can't take an undefeated team from the SEC/previous national champs and not put them in the playoffs, idc how weak the conf was this year
Agree...FSU should have been there. TCU looks like the better team, but I don't see how you keep the undefeated returning champs out.
I don't think there is some sort of a secret Alabama bias. I've been saying for awhile that the SEC is overrated this year. There is a reason why non traditional SEC powers did so well this year. Teams like Ole Miss and Mississippi State weren't suddenly that good, they just had a weaker schedule compared to previous years. The problem is no one really knows the schedule is weaker because the SEC teams all start out very highly ranked at the beginning of the year. When one of those teams loses to another SEC team the SEC team that won gets propelled highly in the rankings.
I'm not sure you will ever see an undefeated kept out of the playoffs from a major conference. It's just so difficult to go the entire season without losing a game. You can't really blame a team in the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Pac 12, or Big 12 for not having a tougher schedule. Rarely do any of these teams have a tough non conference schedule.
Yep.
That's where the committee got it wrong. The drop did nothing but point in the direction of revenues from ticket sales and tv. TCU isn't nearly the same financial draw as Ohio State, so the Buckeyes won out due to money more so than being more deserving of the opportunity to play. And I'm not saying that Ohio State didn't earn the chance to compete. It did. But TCU's drop from #3 to #6 had everything to do with money and nothing to do with a team deserving more than the other.
The problem is it wasn't a "drop." People look at these rankings as though the poll one week is directly related to the poll the next week. That isn't the way the committee looks at this. The final rankings are totally independent of the previous weeks rankings. This means that they essentially start fresh. At that point you look at the entirety of the season and not just what the team did on that particular week. Because they start entirely fresh, there is no actual dropping or rising of teams.
That's true. But none of them except OSU was in the playoffs. You only got the Buckeye hype when they made the playoff bracket but most had them as whipping boys to Bama. Just after Oregon won some of the announcers said it looks like Oregon will meet Alabama in the final and their game hadn't even started. My premise is simple. There is a media bias toward Alabama and it sometimes gets then in the ratings ahead of others. That should be easy for anyone to see..
Guess what? It came from votes of people in the media and a designated voting member flunky who couldn't possibly watch the games he voting about. It was just a pre season seeding by prediction and then a regional buddy system.
The fade after the Florida St. loss really sucked this season. Golson started turning it over at an alarming rate, the defense was hit with injuries and was very young and the kicking game cost them one, maybe two games. But enough of the excuses, ha.
Just to clarify...are you saying they won the titles because of media bias?
No not saying that at all. I haven't raised the issue of titles. I have simply said the are the recipient of media bias and have been for years. To further clarify I haven't touched on conferences.
Alabama gets no more than USC, Texas, ND, etc.
Give it up, you're going in circles. It's obvious you're talking to a fan unhappy with the exposure of his historically nationally relevant team that's fallen on hard times and he needs excuses why nobody else cares about them.
Nice to know you have such insights to things not of record.
