re: Please help me understand why Bama outranks Tennessee.

None of the reasons they give is the criteria for ranking. It doesn’t matter if you have a player injured that’s not part of the criteria losing by certain amount of points is the criteria either. Playoff committee is a scam. They’ll never get anybody else in the playoffs. They always find a way to get Alabama, Ohio State and whoever else they decide in the playoffs. Nicely in Tennessee should be in the playoffs but we should be ahead of Alabama. If head to head isn’t the number one criteria. Why even play the damn games.