Danielson: OU should have been left out of playoff, I give them a 20% chance to beat Bama

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Danielson explained who would have been his top four teams for the College Football Playoff. Alabama (13-0), Clemson (13-0), Notre Dame (12-0) and Oklahoma (12-1) will play for the trophy, while Georgia (11-2) finished No. 5. Big Ten champion Ohio State (12-1) was sixth in the final rankings.

"I was tweaking the committee when I said, 'You set up this word best and now you have to live with it.' And Georgia proved playing against Alabama that they were one of the four best. But deep down, I don't believe that's how it should be approached. Because they really don't know who the best teams are. I've been warning all along, I came in the (SEC) in 2006, when all of the experts, everybody at ESPN, were telling the SEC that the two best teams were Michigan and Ohio State. And I, during that game, said, 'How do you know for sure?' So Florida won the (national) championship (over Ohio State), because they earned the right to play in the game. And I've felt that way all along."

Oklahoma would have been out of the playoff if it was up to Danielson.

"I would have put Georgia three and Notre Dame fourth," Danielson said. "I'm 100 percent sure that Oklahoma has a 20 percent chance to beat Alabama. Here's another thing I'm sure of, anybody can beat anybody in one game we know that. That's the way football is, but I've seen these spread and finesse teams come in the SEC and they all say the same thing after two or three years. 'Oh we can beat them in one game, but what we can't do is sustain it in a week to week to week playing that style. All these coaches come in with the spread, and they leave with tight ends and fullbacks after they leave. Because they know you have to control the line of scrimmage. They all tell me the same thing.

"So Oklahoma, (in the Big 12), a league that has not as many defensive players, (the Big 12) doesn't have as many NFL defensive players as Alabama does. And you can finesse Alabama or Georgia for one game, but you can't come in the (SEC) week in and week out and beat Texas A&M and LSU and Alabama and Georgia over an eight-week schedule. It's not going to happen."

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