I don't trust committees. I don't care what comes out of their mouth's, they all have agendas.
So does every single fan with a rooting interest.
There is a huge backlash against Bama right now.
Not by the committee.
I think the committee puts in any 1 loss conference champ over us, even if that champ's schedule is a little worse then ours.
So basically you have NO EVIDENCE of this but you just - for reasons known only to you - "feel" that way??
I just feel like this year is the year that the committee has enough "excuses" to leave us out.
They had enough excuses to leave out Ohio State in 2016 and Alabama in 2017, but they didn't.
Our schedule just ended up being really bad,
Our schedule is bad, but it's not much worse than anyone else in the Top Ten save for LSU and (much lesser) Penn St.
and an under performing SEC doesn't help.
The SEC is 2-1 against the Big 12, both wins blowouts and the loss by a 4-5 team that lost by 7 points to the K-State team that beat OU>
The SEC is 0-1 against the Big 10, but Purdue vs Vandy isn't going to tell us anything.
The SEC is 1-1 against the Pac 12, with the 5th best team in the SEC beating probably the best team in the Pac 12 by a TD.
The loss (Ole Miss vs Cal) had a controversial call that helped the Rebels lose.
The SEC is 2-2 against the ACC, with Alabama (over Duke) and Florida (over Miami) getting wins while Clemson and UNC got wins for the ACC.
UNC barely beat SCAR......and barely lost to Clemson.......
The top 5 teams in the SEC - Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Georgia, Florida - could hang with almost any team in the country. I'd give Ohio St a huge nod over the last 3 and a pick 'em with the first two. I think Clemson would lose to 2 or maybe 3 of those depending on the day.
The reality isn't that the SEC is down; it's that CFB as a whole has collapsed into a sport that has a few of the same ultra-dominant teams: Alabama, Clemson, Ohio St, Oklahoma (not quite as good this year) plus LSU, a few teams a cut below that (UGA, maybe Penn St/Michigan) - and a bunch of garbage in terms of the PLAYOFF.
I think the committee will cave to outside pressure and find a way to leave us out.
Outside pressure from whom?
This year's agenda is to have the first ever Bama-less playoff.
Thing is, I've heard this nonsense before.
First, a long list of people here were whining hysterical that the reason for the committee was to "make sure two SEC teams never make the playoff."
Then there's the always mythical garbage posts that talk about "Bama fatigue," and I'd call that a psychiatric disorder of the mind that only Tide fans suffer from when we're specifically discussing THE COMMITTEE. I swear, every time I hear some poster here use that phrase, I want to reach through the computer and smack that individual with a tube sock full of screws.
If you're talking about FANS of OTHER programs, they're born with so-called "Bama fatigue"; the PTB in charge have no such delusions.
If "Bama fatigue" really existed, we would not have made the playoff in 2017.
And now we have the THIRD mutation of this very same virus of self-persecution: "they're just trying to make sure we don't get there."
The first two mutations were phony, and so is this one.
If we don't make the playoff it won't be because "the committee wants to put Alabama in a place."
It will be solely because WE left it up to a committee to pick the participants when WE lost to LSU.
If we lose to Auburn - and that's more possible than most posters here want to admit - we're done anyway.
And yet some droning Tide fan here will blame it on the officials and "Bama fatigue," a term which makes me cringe almost as much
as the words "pancreatic cancer" does. (I'm not trying to mean folks, but I'm getting TIRED of that particular phrase from folks who
should know better).