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Good call, I'd also put in a Stanford team that lost to Utah and USC with an interim coach along with a one loss Michigan State from the worst conference in the country over a team who's only loss came on the final play of the game against the now #2 team on the country. Good thing we don't have to worry about you being anywhere near the committee.

I'm guessing at what's going to be done by the committee based on what they have said about conference championships being valued as a criteria for entry. Thus the original quote:

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probably the top four conference champs would probably be chosen by the committee so that means FSU, Auburn, Michigan State, and Baylor would be the ones and UCF and Stanford would be left out. ETA: just looked and Stanford ended the regular season ranked (in the BCS standings) ahead of Baylor so perhaps it would be: FSU, Auburn, Michigan State, and Stanford - leaving out Baylor and UCF.

ETA: it is probably worth mentioning that Stanford and Michigan State also both have two credentials that Bama this year did not: 1) they won their conference when they badly wanted to 2) they beat top ten teams. Michigan State beat tOSU, Stanford beat Oregon (and # 14 ASU and # 17 UCLA). The best team that Alabama beat this year was a LSU team that was # 16 in the BCS final standings.

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Posted by coachcrisp

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Posted on 12/16/13 at 7:27 am to molsusports

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Good call, I'd also put in a Stanford team that lost to Utah and USC with an interim coach along with a one loss Michigan State from the worst conference in the country over a team who's only loss came on the final play of the game against the now #2 team on the country. Good thing we don't have to worry about you being anywhere near the committee.
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I'm guessing at what's going to be done by the committee based on what they have said about conference championships being valued as a criteria for entry. Thus the original quote:

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probably the top four conference champs would probably be chosen by the committee so that means FSU, Auburn, Michigan State, and Baylor would be the ones and UCF and Stanford would be left out. ETA: just looked and Stanford ended the regular season ranked (in the BCS standings) ahead of Baylor so perhaps it would be: FSU, Auburn, Michigan State, and Stanford - leaving out Baylor and UCF.
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ETA: it is probably worth mentioning that Stanford and Michigan State also both have two credentials that Bama this year did not: 1) they won their conference when they badly wanted to 2) they beat top ten teams. Michigan State beat tOSU, Stanford beat Oregon (and # 14 ASU and # 17 UCLA). The best team that Alabama beat this year was a LSU team that was # 16 in the BCS final standings.
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I noticed that Doc's post went right over your head.

You could gather 100 unbiased college football fans and I'd bet the ranch that a minimum of 80 would put Alabama in the top 4 teams (yeah, that would qualify them for the playoff). If there was a 4 team playoff this year without Alabama, the big majority would realize that a true determination of the "best team" wasn't made, and that being the case, why not just cut high card for the championship?