re: Why won't Alabama schedule a home-and-home?

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The problem here is that you're going by final rankings.

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No, its not the problem at all. Are you saying preseason rankings are more accurate than Final rankings? That's absurd.

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Nobody can predict that any of them will have a bad(ish) year during that exact season. The fault here lies not in the team but in the stars.

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If we were having a discussion about which team *intends* to schedule difficult opponents, then you would have a point. But that is not what we were discussing.

I said that the committee has proven that Bama does not have to play a difficult OOC schedule in order to get every benefit of the doubt. The committee is looking at what a team did that year.... they don't give 2 cents about the intent of a schedule. They are looking at how good those teams are that year, and what each team's resume looks like that year.

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While the fact that they did have poor showings isn't up for debate, the assignation of blame/motives for the schedule certainly is.

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No one is blaming anyone. The fact of the matter is Bama has played a relatively weak OOC schedule most years in which Saban has been there, and it has not affected their resume with voters or with the committee.

And Bama is not the only program that has played some bigger name opponents that turned out to be mediocre.

Since '07, despite playing Georgia Tech every single year, Georgia has played Arizona State (2x), Oklahoma State (2x), North Carolina.... every single one of them finished outside the Top 25.

Bama is not the only one its happening to.