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Hope Alabama loses today only cause a three loss team in the playoff is super stinky
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It feels odd to call them a three loss team just because they competed for their conference championship. The SEC had a 4-way tie at the top, Georgia, Alabama, Texas A&M, and Ole Miss. If the tiebreaker went to either Texas A&M or Ole Miss instead of Alabama then Alabama would be a two loss team still, so why punish them for doing better? Makes more sense to me to just consider regular season games when defining teams based on their numbers of losses.

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Anonymous 1w

rent free

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Anonymous 1w

The SEC derangement syndrome is crazy

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

“Rent free” yall play today dumbass 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Would be a better argument if they didn’t lose by 21 points in aforementioned conference championship, and they’re still a 3 loss team

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Bama fans downvoting this like they don’t know I’m right 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

I feel like you didn't read what I said. The reason we sort teams by losses is because of bye weeks during the regular season, at any given week midway through the season the top 25 will all have played differing amounts of games, so losses give you a better idea of the end of the season than wins do. At the end of the season every team has played 12 games, so that's when you should switch to focusing on wins. Alabama is a 10 win team, same as a lot of the playoff bracket.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Yes the SEC championship was a huge embarrassing failure for them, I even saw a funny post about them ranked 16th in the SEC in rushing yards (they had negative, so behind all the teams that didn't play and had zero), but you can't punish them for losing a championship game that most playoff teams couldn't even show up at, otherwise teams in top conferences would prefer to dodge the conference championships like Texas A&M did.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

You can’t simultaneously argue that they did “better” cause they got to the conference championship game and that the loss in conference championship game doesn’t matter simultaneously that’s just stupid. You’re basically saying that the SEC championship game doesn’t matter, Bama is a three loss team full stop, and not a conference champion. You can’t really justify putting Alabama in when they got absolutely embarrassed and their resume looks pretty sauce.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Compared to their conference championship winning or two loss peers

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Sorry if I was unclear about my stance on the conference championships, I'll clarify that I feel conference championship wins should work to boost a resume but conference championship losses shouldn't hurt a resume. Georgia winning the SEC shows they're the top team in that conference, but Alabama losing doesn't necessarily mean they're worse than the other SEC teams, it only means they're worse than Georgia, which the playoff rankings reflect.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

In other words, why punish Alabama for losing so badly to Georgia? Who's to say Texas A&M or Ole Miss would've put up a better game in Alabama's place? It's hard to justify shuffling around teams that didn't play that week, even if it's hilarious like what happened to Notre Dame.

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