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re: Saban thoughts on the playoffs
Posted on 7/1/23 at 10:35 pm to boweswi05
Posted on 7/1/23 at 10:35 pm to boweswi05
It’s a fair question, as evidenced by TCU’s presence in the playoff. Nobody in America outside of the state of Texas thought TCU was one of the 4 best teams in the country last year, and Georgia proved they didn’t belong.
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Posted on 7/1/23 at 10:45 pm to Tuscaloosa
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Nobody in America outside of the state of Texas thought TCU was one of the 4 best teams in the country last year...
Texas... and Michigan.
Posted on 7/1/23 at 11:05 pm to Tuscaloosa
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Nobody in America outside of the state of Texas thought TCU was one of the 4 best teams in the country last year, and Georgia proved they didn’t belong.
Evidently Michigan didn’t either.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 12:55 am to Tuscaloosa
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It’s a fair question, as evidenced by TCU’s presence in the playoff. Nobody in America outside of the state of Texas thought TCU was one of the 4 best teams in the country last year, and Georgia proved they didn’t belong.
His question is fair, but his further defense of it was laughable.
He continues to want Vegas to decide who gets in or points to the fact they would have his team favored over others as exposing some sort of flaw.
Vegas favored Bama in every game they played last year and they lost two of them.
Vegas also would've favored Bama over TCU had they lost another game or possibly even a fourth. This would have been the case even if TCU went undefeated and won the Big 12. So in Saban's world TCU and schools like them can play a Power 5 schedule, go undefeated, and shouldn't be allowed in because Alabama would still be considered better by people who set gambling lines. That's ridiculous.
You have to win your games at some point. They aren't just taking whoever has the most wins. Tulane would've never gone over Bama or Tennessee unless they were undefeated. TCU was a Power 5 school. Played a competitive schedule and won their games. If that doesn't count, then we might as well say it's only about four or five schools that should ever get in.
This post was edited on 7/2/23 at 12:57 am
Posted on 7/2/23 at 1:09 am to Tuscaloosa
Their season was worthy of being in the Final Four though.
Just didn’t matchup well vs Georgia but possibly could have played well vs Ohio State.
Just didn’t matchup well vs Georgia but possibly could have played well vs Ohio State.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 1:30 am to Tuscaloosa
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It’s a fair question, as evidenced by TCU’s presence in the playoff. Nobody in America outside of the state of Texas thought TCU was one of the 4 best teams in the country last year, and Georgia proved they didn’t belong.
It’s funny that TCU has been the target of Gump propaganda talking points in this, because they were actually the third seed in last year’s playoff. #4 Ohio State was the team that “got in” over Alabama.
Being selected for the playoffs is based on what a team demonstrates during the regular season and conference championship games. The Gumps instead want to selectively use the results of the championship game and a meaningless exhibition bowl game to say the deserved
to be in when the results of the season showed they clearly did not. Alabama’s argument aimed at TCU also ignores the fact that the Frogs beat #2 seed Michigan,
who no one challenged as being undeserving of being in the playoffs.
Judging based on reg season and CC, TCU controlled the game better vs common opponent Texas and their only loss was in an extra game they earned vs Bama not qualifying for its CC. Alabama’s case of being in over OSU was better than arguing it deserved to be in over TCU.
Alabama, based on their regular season, was not more deserving of being in the playoff than Tennessee last year - losing head-to-head to the Vols and having the
same record.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 6:57 am to Tuscaloosa
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It’s a fair question, as evidenced by TCU’s presence in the playoff. Nobody in America outside of the state of Texas thought TCU was one of the 4 best teams in the country last year, and Georgia proved they didn’t belong.
Which 4 teams do you honestly believe should have gone?
Posted on 7/2/23 at 8:14 am to Tuscaloosa
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It’s a fair question, as evidenced by TCU’s presence in the playoff. Nobody in America outside of the state of Texas thought TCU was one of the 4 best teams in the country last year, and Georgia proved they didn’t belong.
Furthermore, the main reason the vast majority of people supported TCU’s weakass résumé getting them in was because they just wanted Bama to get snubbed and not watch them make it back to the championship
“But they had two losses…”
fricking 65-7 lol
Posted on 7/2/23 at 10:49 am to Tuscaloosa
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It’s a fair question, as evidenced by TCU’s presence in the playoff. Nobody in America outside of the state of Texas thought TCU was one of the 4 best teams in the country last year, and Georgia proved they didn’t belong.
They beat Michigan. So that point is moot. 4 best teams is misleading. Wins should be the most important factor. Strengths after wins.
Why even play games at all? Just take the top 4 recruiting classes. That’s the 4 best right? Not even close. Bama could have gone 8-4 or 12-0 with the bounce of a ball.
This post was edited on 7/2/23 at 11:21 am
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