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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