Originally Posted by BC
Originally Posted by AU338MAG

Why?

All of Bama’s losses were conference games this year.


Because the committee spoke loud and clear and the message they sent was wins and losses matter and SOS doesn’t. Why play a top tier P4 game and risk the L when the committee views a W against #2 Georgia the same as a W against Georgia State. Why beef up your schedule when they don’t take it into consideration? That’s really as simple as I can explain it.

They could go the Auburn route and play the bottom dwellers of the P4 conferences like Cal, or Washington State, etc. Don’t mean that as a slam but those are all the facts. With the message the committee sent that’s just smart scheduling now. Who wants to go through the SEC gauntlet and play Ohio State and Notre Dame as non conference opponents? Hell Alabama has set themselves up to play FSU and Wisconsin next year as non conference games. Drop one of those and you have to go undefeated or lose at worst one league game to be considered for the playoffs. I bet in six months all these top P4 matchups will be cancelled and it’s a real shame.





So Wisconsin and fsu are top tier teams?