re: Alabama should have been taken over TCU

Yankee scum

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While I understand the reason the CFP committee made their choices, Alabama would have beaten TCU. They destroyed Kansas State who beat TCU. Georgia would not have hung 65 on them. Georgia lucked out.

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UGA only needed to "hang" one more on anyone capable of stepping up to win their second natty in as many years....65 was merely 57 more than was needed to beat the only team in the nation capable of getting to the title game not named UGA....

Bama is like 2016 Ohio state

They had no business being in the playoffs and got exposed bigly 31-0 by Clemson

Georgia would’ve done the same to Bama in round 1 and the committee would’ve looked like fools

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Tennessee, LSU, Tulane

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Who would you take in a game played on a neutral field or at home like Georgia got all of their toughest games during the season?

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Start the 12 team playoff next year and this whole debate goes away and it gets settled on the field.

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I could have swore that Bama "settled (it) on the field" twice this season...

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Nope. With Bryce healthy would have looked a lot like Georgia's game with Ohio State except Bama has a better kicker.

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So even when Bama has an average team, all they have to do is claim greatness at the end of the year? Sounds about right.

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The point is not whether Alabama deserved to be in the playoff or not. The point is TCU didn’t

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If Michigan had beaten TCU 65-7, I'd agree with you. Instead, TCU beat the #2 ranked team and earned their way to the finals.

So I'm not sure how TCU didn't deserve to be in the playoffs when they finished with a better playoff record than Michigan and Ohio State combined. They clearly deserved to be there.

Now what happened in the championship game - Clearly, Georgia was the better team, but we weren't 65-7 better. TCU sh*t themselves early and it got worse from there as Georgia took full advantage.

So TCU clearly wasn't mentally prepared for the National Championship game stage, but they earned their way to that game and belonged in the playoffs, imo.

Can't we just put this to bed?

1. There is a very good argument that Alabama was one of the four "best" teams, meaning that there weren't four other teams that you'd give at least a 50% chance of beating Alabama on a neutral field.

2. Alabama lost two games so their resume wasn't good enough to get into the CFP. Actually winning and losing on the field during the season has to have some meaning.

When deciding teams for the CFP most people give some weight to both being the "best" and resume, but different folks think they should be weighted differently.

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Start the 12 team playoff next year and this whole debate goes away and it gets settled on the field. Simple as that.

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Alabama is going to frick shite up in a 12 team playoff and I am here for it. There will be no avoiding them in favor of Cinderellas that get beat down by 50 points like this year.

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Last time Georgia played Bama with a healthy Bryce they beat them by 15+ points

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Let's break that down a bit:

First of all, how do you get 15+ points?
So a month before, Bama with Jamison and Metchie scorched Georgia 41-24. No fluke, it was a beatdown.
NC game starts, Bama is back on track for the game to go at least 4 quarters probably Bama scorching them again because Georgia was struggling to stop Bama's passing game, in particular Bryce to Jamison.
Jamison goes down - now no Jamison and no Metchie and yet still it's a battle all the way to the 4th quarter. Georgia is aided by the awful play of Bama's backup receivers in which several big play passes were simply dropped.
And even still, Bama was one score from tying the game with just over a minute left in the game. That's when Bryce hit Jacorey Brooks, who had a step on the DB, inside the UGA 5..Brooks of course dropped it.
A couple of plays later, the pick 6 happened and that was it. That's hardly a beatdown at all. If Brooks catches the ball, we very well could have had an OT game.