re: Would you believe half the teams in the CFP don't have a win against a ranked opponent.

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This year the committee strongly indicated that SOS isn’t very important in the 12 team playoff,

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And here is where Alabama struggle with reasoning. They didn't say SOS doesn't count. They said 3 losses with two being to .500 teams is punished. There was one 3 loss team that made the playoffs and that team won their conference...and did not have two terrible losses.

Now, if Alabama beats those teams coming up on their schedule, and loses one tough game, or two tough games they probably make it in.

I keep saying and believe this....if Alabama had lost to Georgia and beaten either Oklahoma or Vanderbilt, they would have made the playoffs. It was two terrible loses that kept you out of the playoffs, not something else. Y'all lost to two bad teams....the other teams in the playoffs did not. You want to amke the playoffs? Don't lost to two bad teams.

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The stupid argument comes when Alabama fans want to think they deserved to be in the playoffs after losing to two bad teams.

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I get it. You're scared of Bama and have to come up with stupid arguments to run cover for the playoff committee so UGA won't have to face daddy again. Makes sense.

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You guys keep thinking some OOC schedule kept you out of the playoffs.

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Only you are dishonestly making that the argument.

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I get it. You're scared of Bama and have to come up with stupid arguments to run cover for the playoff committee so UGA won't have to face daddy again. Makes sense.

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I'm not scared of Bama. Why would I be? I've never played Alabama. Hint: It's a game.

Question. Name one playoff team that lost not one, but to two teams with 6-6 or worse records. Did Alabama play a tougher schedule that many of the teams? Yes. But the other teams did not lose to two bad teams. Had they had two bad losses they would not have made it, either.

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Only you are dishonestly making that the argument.

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And yet it is Alabama fans saying they should go to easy OCC teams.
Again. It wasn't your OOC schedule that kept you out of the playoffs.

You can't even admit that it was losing to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt that kept you out. If it were reversed you would be saying Georgia did not earn their way into the playoffs.

It’s a playoff of teams with the easiest schedules. UGA should rip through it.

That’s true but here’s something to consider and I’ll use ND as an example . The fact that they crushed just about everyone on their schedule might have something to do with why the teams aren’t ranked anymore. If you remove the ND loss from the following teams would they be ranked? They’ll all probably receive votes in the final poll btw

Army
Louisville
TAM
Georgia Tech
Possibly Navy?
You can even throw USC in there. None of those teams are patsies

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They didn't say SOS doesn't count.

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I said it’s not weighed heavily. It isn’t.

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They said 3 losses with two being to .500 teams is punished.

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South Carolina didn’t do this.

Everything else in your post is equally incoherent. This is an SEC issue, not an Alabama issue. By blathering on and on about Alabama you have tipped your hand where your motivations lay.

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Boise's QB has 30+ TD passes

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ESPN says 22 TDs, with 5 in the last 5 games and less than 200 yards in 4/5

So again, can they pass the ball well enough to win games when teams stack the box (and maybe stacking the box won't matter)

We have a backup QB playing, all the pundits are saying it can't be done

No. Somebody said this about Texas last week, and I’d never thought about it like that.

This is not right. CFP still depends on rankings, and teams are ranked with little regard for strength of schedule.

CFP will always be “off” until they rank by SoS.

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Fair enough. Which should be weighed heavier? Losses or SOS? because Florida (5ht toughest schedule) had a tough schedule and finished the year stronger than Alabama.

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We have been discussing SOS, but SOR is what we're really talking about, and to answer your question SOR should be weighed the heaviest as it factors in losses. If 12 is the number of teams we want, then the best system would have been four auto bids for the P4 champions, no byes, eight at-large teams based on an updated version of the old BCS formula. Honestly I don't know how any supporter of a team in the SEC (or other person who understands that all schedules are not created equally) would disagree with this. The entire concept of a committee was chosen simply as a means to mitigate SEC dominance in the postseason, by introducing a greater degree of subjectivity into the process. Not sure why you are so fixated on Alabama here.

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I mean South Carolina had the #17 ranked schedule (Alabama was #16) and had one win taken from them by a terrible call. They have more to complain about than Alabama.

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Ok cool, put USC in. Or whoever the 8 highest ranked remaining teams are after the four P4 champs, using the agreed upon formula. Again, really odd (but telling) that the entirety of your argument is fixated on Alabama. My argument is for a system that would benefit the entire conference (or other team) that happens to have played a difficult schedule. Your argument is very clearly one where you have simply arrived at a desired conclusion (you want to keep Alabama out) and you are twisting and turning throwing shite at a wall trying to backfill a selection system that would justify your desired outcome.