News Article: Alabama AD Greg Byrne to reassess scheduling after Tide CFP snub

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“We have said that we would need to see how strength of schedule would be evaluated by the CFP,” Byrne posted. “With this outcome, we will need to (assess) how many P4 non-conference games make sense in the future to put us in the best position to participate in the CFP. That is not good for college football.”

Alabama AD Greg Byrne to reassess scheduling after Tide CFP snub

Here's how Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne reacted after Alabama football was left out of the College Football Playoff.

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[B1GTide]

That will not help. He needs to cut back on the intraconference games. The SEC beat itself this year. No other conference knocked an SEC team out.

 

[denver]

The issue is the strength of the SEC vs others...until the committee values the quality of a win vs just a win nothing changes....CBB has Quad 1 wins etc...much better...so someone who goes 26-3 but plays no one has to win their championship to get in...if they lose they dont. CFP rewards any win...treats them the same...and conferences...its a blatant flaw

 

[BamaFanInTally]

The issue I see is if you go and schedule weaker non P4 teams, and the makeup and approach of the CFP committee changes in the near future. The CFP committee needs clear guidelines for making selections, not at the whims of those who serve on the committee. And automatic qualifiers need to die a very public death? Boise and AZ State? Are you kidding me!

 

[RTR2u]

And while he is at it, put Auburn toward the beginning of the season and get it out of the way. They won't have anything to play for if he does that.

 

[Snuffy Smith]

That will not help. He needs to cut back on the intraconference games. The SEC beat itself this year. No other conference knocked an SEC team out.

That’s why B1G & SEC need to press the nuclear button.

What if the SEC decides to finish off the ACC?

I'm sitting here contemplating the potential fallout if the ACC gets 2.5 (including Notre Dame) teams in the playoff and the SEC only gets 3. I don't think the SEC would do anything rash, but remember how FSU responded to being left out of the playoff? They threw a giant fit and then publicly...

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[carder24]

Just guessing but this could more of threat about regular season profits from scheduling ooc. There would be the benefit of having more easy games for sec teams to prep, develop, recover between sec opponents; but making this statement seems to also send the message that if sec is going to punished post season by having strong sos, then he can take away the opportunities for other conferences to benefit from playing us during regular season that are big for their stadiums, tv, etc

 

[TexasTider]

SEC and Big10 raid the ACC for whomever they wish to take. 32 or 40 team super league. 4 pods. Play every team in your pod. Play enough out of pod games against the others to get to 12 games. 12 team playoff. pod winners get first round bye. 2nd and 3rd place teams in each pod play on the first weekend. All games except the title game are home games. Wait.. that sounds like ... the most successful sports league by a wide wide margin.. oh yeah, the NFL.

Take a listen to the Acquired podcast episode on the NFL. It's a fascinating and very deep dive into how the modern NFL came to be.

 

[CrimSonami]

Sadly enough, as long as there’s a committee and auto-bye involved they’ll just keep moving the goalposts to fit their preferences. Just stay the course and win the games your supposed too.

 

[Power Eye]

That’s why B1G & SEC need to press the nuclear button.

What if the SEC decides to finish off the ACC?

I'm sitting here contemplating the potential fallout if the ACC gets 2.5 (including Notre Dame) teams in the playoff and the SEC only gets 3. I don't think the SEC would do anything rash, but remember how FSU responded to being left out of the playoff? They threw a giant fit and then publicly...

www.tidefans.com

Big 10 got 4 teams in, they're happy, and next year will be the same because they're so top heavy. As for the SEC, I don't think we are the team that everyone else in the conference is going to rally behind given the run we had for over 15 years. Most of the teams are probably laughing at us not getting in. Next season it could be someone different and it will get real.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I would like to see Alabama have this future SEC schedule every year

Miss State
Arkie
tennessee in Tuscaloosa only
barn in Tuscaloosa only
Mizzu
@ lsu at night
Kentucky

 

[B1GTide]

SEC and Big10 raid the ACC for whomever they wish to take. 32 or 40 team super league. 4 pods. Play every team in your pod. Play enough out of pod games against the others to get to 12 games. 12 team playoff. pod winners get first round bye. 2nd and 3rd place teams in each pod play on the first weekend. All games except the title game are home games. Wait.. that sounds like ... the most successful sports league by a wide wide margin.. oh yeah, the NFL.

Take a listen to the Acquired podcast episode on the NFL. It's a fascinating and very deep dive into how the modern NFL came to be.

You cannot raid the ACC because of their contracts with member schools. You would have to leave them out.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Big 10 got 4 teams in, they're happy, and next year will be the same because they're so top heavy. As for the SEC, I don't think we are the team that everyone else in the conference is going to rally behind given the run we had for over 15 years. Most of the teams are probably laughing at us not getting in. Next season it could be someone different and it will get real.

Ole Miss and South Carolina got screwed as well.

Make no mistake, Sankey is feeling the heat. This is a monster HE created.

 

[Power Eye]

Ole Miss and South Carolina got screwed as well.

Make no mistake, Sankey is feeling the heat. This is a monster HE created.

You're right, but I wonder if the other member schools are going to look at this as an Alabama thing more than an SEC thing given that it came down to us and SMU. It would obviously be short-sighted to do that, but my fear is that Ole MIss and SC are getting lost in the fray of today.

 

[TideEngineer08]

You're right, but I wonder if the other member schools are going to look at this as an Alabama thing more than an SEC thing given that it came down to us and SMU. It would obviously be short-sighted to do that, but my fear is that Ole MIss and SC are getting lost in the fray of today.

I honestly don’t know. I know Kiffin was being very vocal prior to the selections were made. Their fans had to be being vocal. I don’t doubt there is joy around the country today at Alabama’s snub. But, Alabama is $$$. Sankey knows this.

There is a long discussion to be had about Sankey that I don’t think we’ve had yet. But don’t forget, he was wrangling this playoff prior to announcing Texas and OU to the SEC. He made a deal with the devil thinking he wouldn’t get burned, with this stupid set up of guaranteed byes and top 4 conference champions nonsense.

Now he has been burned. How does this ACC, with no FSU in the mix, a weak Clemson that gets drug by its two SEC opponents, get 2.5 teams in the playoff and the SEC just 3? The SEC which had by far the highest rated conference and strength of schedules?

This was a clown show. Money has been lost. Folks may be laughing at Alabama but they are not laughing at tens of millions of lost revenue.

 

[TexasTider]

You cannot raid the ACC because of their contracts with member schools. You would have to leave them out.

Contracts are written to be broken. Someone will just need to sit down and do the math on buyouts + billable hours on lawyers vs media rights from ABC/ESPN. I mean you don't have to look any further than how SMU slid into the ACC by foregoing TV money.

 

[oskie]

Where do the ticket buying fans play into this equation?

Shouldn't there be some type of obligation to them?

Already too many fluff games on the schedule, in my opinion.

I'm for going the opposite direction and adding one more conference game.

 

[B1GTide]

Contracts are written to be broken. Someone will just need to sit down and do the math on buyouts + billable hours on lawyers vs media rights from ABC/ESPN. I mean you don't have to look any further than how SMU slid into the ACC by foregoing TV money.

You need to read more deeply. The cost to walk away from the ACC is about $140MM.

 

[TideEngineer08]

You need to read more deeply. The cost to walk away from the ACC is about $140MM.

It would have happened by now if it were realistic.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Can we also permanently ban Jason Autrey from Saban Field and BDS?