BINGO!!!I make that assumption because that is exactly how the process will work. They'll go to a hotel somewhere, deliberate for a couple of hours and release their top 4. There may be a press conference, but you're not going to know whether or not it's honest. It won't be difficult at all for them to justify their results, and if a 1-loss SEC team like Alabama is left out, only Alabama fans are ticked off. The rest of the country, especially outside of SEC territory, will be thrilled.
By "tamper expectations", I just think folks expecting us to make it in automatically if we win out are going to be disappointed. But I do hope I'm wrong.
The only way a one loss non SEC champ Bama gets in is if there are only two one loss teams to choose from...and we're one of them. It's way to early to be "assuming", there's a lot of games yet to be played...but this is a message board so "assuming" fans are to be expected. But if you're going to "assume" Bama, Ole Miss and FSU are going to win out, you also must "assume" Oregon, Baylor/KSU, MSU/tOSU, and ND win out also. In that case you'd have five one loss teams vying for two spots. Three conference champs, 11-1 ND, and 11-1 non champ Bama. Though being a conference champ is not technically mandatory, I believe it will be an "unwritten" rule...after all the BCS did that just a few years ago, and apparently the ptb did not like it...look where they are now. :wink: As another poster stated, this final four is not about the best teams, it's about groups.It's not only about inclusion, but also exclusion. If they put Bama in, they'd have to leave three of those four groups out. IMO, if there are five one loss teams left, Bama is at the bottom of the list. I think the final four would be FSU, Ole Miss, Oregon, and ND,and they'd be seeded so that ND and FSU could possibly rematch in the ncg.
But all this is based on pure speculation...there's a lot of football left, and anything can happen. We just need to play our best from here on out...if we don't, it's a moot point anyway. Let's stomp UT as the next step. :biggrin2: