re: There's not much difference between 12-1 and 13-0

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a 13-0 Florida St team is a complete joke

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I agree. 12 regular season games and only 1 opponent won 9 games.

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A 12-1 Bama team getting in over a 13-0 Florida St team is a complete joke and doesn't make any sense no matter how hard you try to justify it.

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Allow me to put this in context for you.

Einstein once said that the world is run by GREED, FEAR, and STUPIDITY.

Greed:

I doubt that the money and ratings personalities behind the curtains have ever competed at this level so they have no clue about how hard it is to go undefeated. But that probably wouldn't matter anyway because they are chiefly motivated by the accumulation of cash.

Fear:

The talking head pundits who fumble around with trying to rationalize this glaringly obvious screwing over of Florida State are selling what might have been left of their integrity to simply save their jobs out of the fear of being banished from the sports broadcasting industry.

Stupidity:

The Alabama fan base who actually think that they deserve this in spite of the fact that they didn't earn it. In stark contrast, Florida State did earn it on the field of play. Undefeated always trumps a one loss team especially in light of the fact that Bama looked like a steaming pile in several games this season with the addition of a 10 point loss on their own field.

So what we are left with is a tainted ESPN INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT while the true #3 team, Florida State, is playing in the Orange Bowl.