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The FOX meltdown from the CFP selection

It's FOX sports -- did you really expect anything rational or logical? They are so ratings driven, over the top hype for their conferences that nothing else matters. I wouldn't watch their sports shows if they were the only one's on television.

When it is FOX in anything you have to lower your expectations regarding truth.
 
Quoting David Pollack: Alabama is only a favorite because of Nick Saban. Not because of what they've done on the football field this year. Please keep it up.
 
bamamc1 said:
Wisconsin would not be in the top 3 in the SEC West this year. Maybe not top 4. OSU is not what they were years ago either.
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Wisconsin is slow and athletically challenged. Jesse Palmer then had the nerve to say they would beat Alabama on a neutral field easily. Unreal.
 
For all the ones saying Bama does not belong, Bama by most odds makers has highest percentage chance of winning it all. Slight points favorite over #1 Clemson, for what that is worth. Just saying.
 
BamaMoon said:
Head of the committee made it clear that Bama with 1 loss was the tipping point over OSU with 2 losses (and one of them being a bad loss).

What everyone is missing is the list of 4 or 5 things that include a conference championship only get applied to the decision when two teams are equal.

Bama and OSU were never equal when one was being honest because anybody with half a brain knows 1 loss trumps 2 losses.

If the committee chair meant what he said, it wouldn't have mattered if OSU hammered Wiskey, 2 losses were always going to be the tipping point for OSU.
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Had Bama lost by 31 to 7-5 Texas A&M then yes OSU title should trump our non title with exact records to basically same caliber teams.
 
Normally I'm okay with the fact that people have their pet biases...even sports talking heads. But what bothers me is that people are apoplectic about it, like some grave injustice was done. I can see making a case for tOSU, but it's not like they were undefeated and didn't get curb stomped by a team that barely made it to bowl eligibility. I mean, I'm totally okay with the debate and people thinking that maybe tOSU deserved to get in for whatever reasons. I just don't get the outrage.
 
BamaMan09 said:
Wisconsin is slow and athletically challenged. Jesse Palmer then had the nerve to say they would beat Alabama on a neutral field easily. Unreal.
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Another interesting aspect is they all thought Wisconsin had no chance against OSU before the game, afterwards it was a "gutsy huge win" by the buckeyes.
 
BamaMan09 said:
Wisconsin is slow and athletically challenged. Jesse Palmer then had the nerve to say they would beat Alabama on a neutral field easily. Unreal.
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Holy Cow.

Where was he 2 years ago when we had just such a game vs. Wisconsin? Yes I realize each year is a new team. But Wisconsin has always been Wisconsin, and we're not much different than we've always been under Coach Saban. We would win the game one of two ways. We would maul them something like 52-7 with a game filled with long TD plays, or we'd strangle them to death like we did in 2015.
 
BamaMan09 said:
Wisconsin is slow and athletically challenged. Jesse Palmer then had the nerve to say they would beat Alabama on a neutral field easily. Unreal.
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That's because Jesse's gender neutral - not that there's anything wrong with that...
 
My co-worker (auburn grad), first jokingly told me to shut-up and get to work. Then, he said Alabama deserves the spot over anyone else. He said you just cannot ignore the blowout losses Ohio State and USC had. He also said he thinks Alabama will beat Clemson. He said it is almost unfair to give Saban a month to prepare for them instead of 7-10 days like the other 2 games.
 
A lot of these same talking heads were the ones saying the program was dying after the 2015 Ole Miss game. There is clearly a serious bias in the media against Alabama. Things that go beyond normal debate. You saw how shocked the ESPN people were yesterday when Alabama was selected. Something just stinks about those people. Some of them have ulterior motives and it's not good.
 
TideEngineer08 said:
Proof positive that news/information can be hijacked by trolls and folks will believe it. No, of course Coach Saban never said that. Why would he? He made the NC game in 2011 after failing to win his division. Why would he then turn around and say a team has to win its conference to get in the playoffs? Hell, I know he has advocated for the SEC in the past BCS era, for it to get more than 2 teams in the BCS games.

As for the Fox morons. I've got major problems with ESPN, but I cannot deny they are the major player in sports, especially College Football. These clowns are the cast offs from ESPN. That should tell you all you need to know. They are the rejects, and they don't deserve anyone's attention.
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Really it doesn’t make any difference if he did or didn’t say it past seasons to me (and I apologize for even referencing that he did without doing my due diligence to prove it right or wrong). To me when the cfp committee put in tOSU last year, the precedent was set from then on, and that discussion should be settled from that point on IMHO. I just find it hilarious that a lot of the talking heads are in such and uproar over Bama getting in over tOSU, the exact same way tOSU got in last year.




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crimsonaudio said:
You'll have to show me where Saban has ever said that.
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My UGA friend sent me that stupid meme about Saban and conference championships. It's a flat out fabrication and it irked me more than it should - not even because it was Bama but because it's jsut so easy to spew lies that get swallowed if it helps people feel better about what's going on.
 
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