re: ...Tigers prepped for Alabama all bowl season, spending just one week on Notre Dame.

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Committee rewarding Clemson

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I agree. And you could argue that the 4th seed has been better than the 3rd in four of the five playoffs.

2014 - #4 Ohio State was much better than #3 Florida State
2015 - #4 Oklahoma was much better than #3 Michigan State
2017 - #4 Alabama was better than #3 Georgia
2018 - #4 Oklahoma was much better than #3 Notre Dame

The committee has gotten glaringly obvious things wrong every single year. That's part of why the Playoff is the worst selection system since before the Bowl Coalition.