
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.