
bama doesn't have the resume of, say, smu where they were a lock without their chip and just got upset. they got dominated by a terrible fsu, lost to an oklahoma team with no offense, and are generally a fringe team. just simply not the same situation and dropping them two spots wouldn't be that crazy.
Frankly, it doesn’t matter(not saying this is how it should be but) they have the biggest brand in college football. Probably any other sec team in their shoes would be able to justifiably get dropped out if they got ripped to shreds by Georgia, but you slap that script a combined w the fact that they don’t want to penalize someone for losing conference championship, and the fact that they alr beat Georgia and there’s no way they are taking them out