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2023 Georgia lost by 3 in the SEC Championship and dropped from 1 to 6. Alabama loses by 21 in the SEC Championships and moves up a spot. Interesting.This was when conference championships were THE deciding factor. You just had 2 SEC teams that sat at home and played 12 games that would’ve gotten in over Alabama.. because bama earned the right to play more games than them. Cant punish a team for losing a game in which they could’ve refused to get on the plane for, and made the playoff. It’s a new situation
It was a 4 team playoff back then and Texas wasn’t in the sec then. Winner of the sec championship (bama over Georgia) made the 4 team playoffs. I don’t mind championship games counting against you BUT you can’t penalize a team for playing an extra game (against the best conference team) and losing and having a team behind you that didn’t make the conference game sit at home and move up.
I don’t think you understand. BYU was out of the playoffs to begin with, so they didn’t get kicked out. And BYU is second in the BIG12, it’d be unfair to kick BYU out and put the #3 or #4 BIG12 team in the playoffs. Basically you can’t reward a worse team (#3 and #4) for sitting at home and punish a better team (#2) for playing an extra game and losing to the best team (#1).
They still moved down in rankings. Bama is the only team to not move down in the rankings after a conf championship loss. I’m not saying another SEC team should’ve made it over them, I think ND should’ve. If the committee actually valued the eye test, they’d see Bama is playing their worst football of the year rn. They’d see Bama has by far the worst loss of all the bubble teams. If Bama loses that game by like 3-10 points I’d say they deserve to be in but they got destroyed
In the sec bama was #2, ole miss #3 and Oklahoma #4. You can’t punish bama for playing an extra game losing to #1 sec team Georgia and kick them out of the playoffs and reward ole Miss and Oklahoma for sitting at home. Georgia already beat ole Miss and would beat Oklahoma also. Also bama beat Georgia in georgia earlier this year. I’m not bama fan but if you punish teams for playing an extra game against the best and losing then no one would play in conference games
OU beat Bama and Ole Miss has 2 less losses that’s completely different. They aren’t being rewarded. Bama beating Georgia earlier in the year is completely overshadowed by getting beat down later in the year. Bamas best win is beating Georgia by less than a TD. Then Georgia beats them by 21 later in the year. That has to overshadow a lucky one possession game. That combined with the fact they lost to Florida State is why ND should’ve gotten in. They lost 2 games by a combined 4 points