re: Please help me understand why Bama outranks Tennessee.

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but the selection criteria clearly states that UT should be ahead.

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No, it doesn't. All you Vol fans want to overlook the very first statement in the selection criteria...

"When circumstances at the margins indicate that teams are comparable...,"


If that statement isn't true, then the remaining criteria are meaningless.

When you get sodomized by a 7-4 team to the tune of 63 points, you are no longer "at the margins" and "comparable". A last-second victory at home doesn't change that.

Alabama has never in its history given up 63 points. You were an utterly putrid excuse for a football team that day, and the stench of that anal raping doesn't just go away.