So many things to say here.....
1) If anyone - I mean ANYONE on this board - still believes the mouths with microphones have any influence on the committee, you need to time travel back to around 1137 am on the morning of December 3, 2017, when the Joel Splatts, Danny Whinells and Jesse Plumbers of the world saw Alabama chosen over Ohio St. It doesn't matter what they're saying folks - too many of you are letting the publicly branded group Idiots Without Influence have too much over your mind and emotions.
Both y'all AND the idiots need to accept the reality that it's literally nothing but talk.
2) I don't give a damn how many Power 5 teams we play and - truth be told - neither do the Idiots.
Here's a problem that really makes me wish I could be on one of these pundit shows, and it has nothing at all to do with Alabama so much as the fact that unlike the trolls, I actually do my homework.
The common objection we just had went like this:
Alabama didn't win it's conference/division
Alabama played Mercer
Alabama played one less conference game than Ohio State (technically, two)
I never understood this emotional nonsense. First of all, there is NO REQUIREMENT to win your conference, making that argument meaningless. But nobody wanted to point out "but so did Auburn" to these folks. I don't know if most folks didn't know that or not, but the argument was combined together: Auburn played Clemson (but they lost so who cares), Auburn played a tougher schedule (which was true, but they also lost THREE games), and now for the kicker.......does ANYONE here actually believe that if we had played South Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, OR Florida (pick one) that the game would have even been close? (I leave out UGA because that's the one team they'd have said Alabama should have played - and now we did, so...)
Furthermore, the post-UCF nonsense is proof positive that even the Mouths don't believe what they're saying.
They're complaining that Alabama played Mercer but should have played a Power 5 team.
AND they're complaining that you can't blame UCF because P5 teams won't play them.
BUT if Alabama had played UCF instead of Mercer and beat the socks off them, it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
This is the parallel of my other favorite nonsense argument, "Alabama doesn't play road games outside of the Southeast."
So. The. Hell. What?
And what some pundit needs to finally point out (you'd think Clay Travis of all people would make this point) is that this is nothing but excuse making and arguing by suggestion. Even the nutbags making the argument don't ACTUALLY believe that if Alabama went to Manhattan, Kansas in late November that K-State would beat us. But they're pretending that that's exactly what they believe. They just hope you fill in the blanks with the nonsense suggestion of "Alabama is afraid of Ohio State." Someone needs to say - when this comes up - "give me the names of the teams you actually think wouldbeat Alabama in a home game" because they have the same 2-3 teams at most but are pretending like there's this big group of winners outside the South.
3) the same pundits before the season that thought Florida St was going to make the playoff and set up a rematch were the same ones who flipped and said FSU wasn't any good.
(They always ignored the fact that Alabama had a lot to do with FSU's season not being so good).
(One more thing as far as this home game Big Ten weather argument......even THEY don't actually the nonsense you hear from some of their fans. If they do then why do they always the Big Ten championship game INDOORS?)
Despite the suggestion that Alabama playing Wisconsin at Camp Randall would be like staging a football game on Hoth during the Imperial invasion scene, it's rare even for Big Ten teams to actually play in a November snowfall. It happens, but it's rare.
