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If you Bama fans can’t see that and accept it as the truth and the reason you got left out of the playoffs, well you are just simply blinded by your own bias.

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100% agree with you that is why Bama was left out, so don't even try to say I am biased. The committee had to decide between letting in teams that have proven nothing, or letting in flawed teams that have proved they could get big top 25 wins but also have bad losses. And now we know they made the wrong decision.

Saban has been good overall this year on TV, but agree he could have rolled with that better. But of course it is much more personal to him than it is to us watching it.

Obviously an environment where players can't be systemically paid by the program is/was beneficial to Alabama under Saban, because then at least most of the players were making decisions for reasons other than money, chief among those were where is best to be developed for the NFL. You're a clown if you don't think the NFL pipeline is why Alabama had been getting such great recruiting classes under Saban. Maybe someone related to Alabama paid someone along the line (i'm sure), but it isn't like Alabama was paying 30 players in the recruiting class every single year for a decade plus and just not getting caught.

The difference is when it happens to someone else, we all know that Bama fans will be arguing for what is right, because we know their character. All we are seeing tonight is the jealousy from the MSU/LSU’s of the conference.

It’s not that bama “deserves” it, it’s just that there is no team in the last-in discussion that you can argue with a straight face is better than them.

Let’s be honest. The media/power structures within college football will do whatever they can do to keep us out. It has nothing to do with the committee’s stated purpose of determining the best teams. No one disagrees that we would be in with that metric. The fact that we are even having this discussion tells you all you need to know about what Bama has to go up against year in and year out.

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You gonna punish them for playing in a conference championship while Alabama was sitting at home counting their dick today?

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It isn’t possible to “punish” an ACC team for how they perform in their championship, because they must play in that game to be eligible for the playoff.

Which of our wins are you talking about?

You’re gonna have to beat bama, sorry. Fortunately for you, the anti-Bama committee will prob keep us out. But let’s not be casuals and pretend this championship doesn’t have an asterisk.

As an Alabama fan, however the season ends I will be very interested in how the team (and the coach) can improve going into next year. That will be my focus regardless if they don't make the playoffs, get bounced or win a natty.

However, for CFB as a whole, I don't think you can overstate how important a Bama natty could be for the sport. With NIL, the transfer portal, Saban retiring, the 12-team playoff, conference realignment, etc... there has just been so much change in such a short period of time. While winning another natty would make me happy as an Alabama fan, I will be far happier that all fans of this great sport can rest a little easier knowing that despite all of the jarring changes we have seen, nothing has really changed.

They wrote the headline like idiots, but what they mean is that Trump's edge has grown in the race, which is to 270.