(01-09-2018 05:33 PM)The4thOption Wrote:  

(01-07-2018 10:19 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(01-06-2018 08:19 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  How would you have felt about UCF in the final four before the win over Auburn? It really is perfect that they got to beat the one team that's beaten both of the championship game participants, but that's a pretty big data point that wasn't there at the time of the final rankings.

It's a data point that's incomplete. Teams don't win or lose games based on their data sheets - it's not virtual football. As you've somewhat alluded to, when they played Auburn matters. No way the toughness of the Auburn team they played was anywhere near what Auburn gave Georgia or Alabama. By the time they played Georgia again, they had beaten the #1 team in the country twice, and were simply worn out. And then they had to play a game vs UCF that's nearly impossibly to get up for after your hopes of playing for a natty were shattered.

(01-07-2018 03:35 AM)Shrack Wrote:  Alabama is probably one of the best 4 teams, but if you don't even win your division then you should NOT be in a 4 team playoff...

A 16 team playoff would be amazing, but of course will never happen.

If Alabama is one of the best four teams, they should be in the playoffs, period, regardless of whether you think they "deserve" it. "They didn't take care of business" shouldn't be anywhere near this discussion. It's not about what they were "supposed" to do like there's some kind of rules to this. It's about what they are, plain and simple. Either they are one of the best four, or they're not. If losing a conference championship games leads you to believe they aren't one of the four best so be it, but you can't say they are one of the best four, but because they didn't do "abc" or "xyz", they don't get to be in the playoffs. That's the kind of sinister "rule making" that will get G5s left out in better playoff formats. Either you're the best or you're not, period.

I can't believe you are supporting this crap system.
They didn't beat UCF.
This CRAP about Auburn just not being tough anymore by the time they played UCF is total BS.
Maybe UGA wasn't tough anymore or wore out after playing Auburn twice and OK, so the Bama title doesn't mean much then?
This not getting up for a team is also garbage. If Auburn can't get up for defending themselves from losing to a g5, then they don't deserve to be in the SEC. I watched that game, Auburn was trying HARD to survive... they just got beat.
Stop with the excuses.
Bottom line, the system is rigged and the only way ANY G5 gets a shot is with playoff expansion and most likely with a guaranteed spot for at leas the Access rep.
The SEC doesn't need your defense.
Are you a bama fan or something?

I'm not. There are much better options. I'm saying if Alabama is legit one of the four best, they should be in the playoffs, and not left out because of a qualifier that doesn't do what it's supposed to do. In a 12 game regular season, one game cannot have that much weight.

You don't have to be an Alabama fan to enjoy good football. I don't care if Troy fans roast me. Some of you guys take this conference / team loyalty stuff way too seriously.

The idea that human psychology doesn't play into how well teams play is bogus. You can have your power ratings and I'll go on believing that college football is much more fluid than people want to realize. Auburn beat the brakes off of Georgia and then got curb stomped by the same Georgia team a few weeks later. Power ratings be damned. I'm supposed to believe that Auburn has been the same all season? That they played with the same drive and determination as they did vs two different #1 teams? Naw man.

Of course I would have liked UCF or even Troy to have a chance in an 8 or 16 team playoff. But as it is, right now, in a four team playoff, they got it right. Alabama lost one game before getting into the playoffs, UCF was undefeated. Even if you could somehow qualify the win over Auburn, no one had goggles to see into the future. Alabama beat three ranked teams to UCF's one, and played a tougher SEC schedule, even if the league on the whole is down. You don't have to be an Alabama fan to see that.