Bama Game Thread: CFP Selection Show details (12p-4p EST ESPN): Times, where to watch; Selection show 'game thread'

[bamamc1]

After seeing what we saw last night, if the NCAA gave you $500 to bet on the outcome straight up on LSU vs SMU in Baton Rouge, who are you taking?

 

[Krymsonman]

I’m not the biggest Milroe supporter , but I don’t dislike him either. But you will have to show physical evidence before I believe a lot of what is said about him. As far as the sidelines, I see him on the IPad sometimes, I don’t know what you mean by disengaged.

I don't get on him much either, but I will say that he was a major factor in our losses at Tennessee and OU. Maybe how he starts a game determines how well he will play in a game. I knew we were getting bad Jalen early in the OU game, when he had an easy first down by following his blocking but instead trying juking around a player and lost four yards. Then dodging the tackle on the pick six was atrocious. At Tennessee he refused to do what he does best which is run the ball. QB play in those two games was a major reason for the losses.

 

[bamaga]

The AQs are certainly an issue but it kind of masks the underlying issue of not properly parsing, or even going over the data. You mention PSU this year, well Oregon was their darling last year. Weak SoS but they were the top one loss team all the way to the final rankings. Based on nothing but their opinion.

I was waiting for this to update and it finally did, now I still think there should be a human element but here's a computer composite:

Composite College Football Power Rankings & Ratings

Calculated by aggregating computer generated college football power rankings from around the web and determining each team’s average ranking.

powerrankingsguru.com

We can argue a bit over the rankings (Georgia and Oregon too low, ND too high), but you can see Penn State is pushed down a bit, and Boise State, Arizona State and Clemson are out. We need a bit of this logic to make sense of stuff, otherwise it will just be the luck of an easy schedule that is the biggest factor in making a playoff.

Idiot poster started a thread on Volnation yesterday afternoon-

. the CFP needs to get rid of the human factor and let a ton of computers decide the teams. There is no way SMU doesn't deserve to be in the playoffs over Bama with two more wins and they way they competed vs Clemson! Bama got embarrased by OU and scored 3 pts two games ago. How could the KNUCKLEHEADS put Bama in over SMU should Clemson win the game???

Alabama 6th by computers, SMU 12th by the computers, Tennessee 8th at least that’s funny!

 

[B1GTide]

I would certainly argue the SEC and Big 10 gain absolutely nothing from playing each other under this system.

If this happens to the B1G next year, you can e pec the CFP to be very, very different afterward. If both of those conferences get mad, this crap will end.

 

[22Musso22]

I won't be watching a single minute of this trainwreck.

Nor will I.

 

[carder24]

Let me tell you this: Watch those teams getting blown out in first round, and Committe will look real bad and there will be adjustments made to ensure this stuff doesn't happen again.

Screw the adjustments, this should not happen with the sec, arguably top to bottom the strongest and most competitive set of teams period this season. We've had some weak bottom of the league years, this season was not anywhere near that

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

I don't get on him much either, but I will say that he was a major factor in our losses at Tennessee and OU. Maybe how he starts a game determines how well he will play in a game. I knew we were getting bad Jalen early in the OU game, when he had an easy first down by following his blocking but instead trying juking around a player and lost four yards. Then dodging the tackle on the pick six was atrocious. At Tennessee he refused to do what he does best which is run the ball. QB play in those two games was a major reason for the losses.

I blame the OU loss on Sheridan. It's like it was lazy game planning and he tried to "cut and paste" the LSU plan in for OU.

 

[Krymsonman]

This. If any SEC team can't beat FSU from the last number of years, there should be no talk of playoffs for that team.

Just wait. FSU's going to go out this off-season and buy a bunch of linemen, then buy a really good QB, so when we face them, they won't even resemble this years team.

 

[carder24]

This feels like losing because of corrupt officials. Some will say that you shouldn't leave the game close enough that officials can impact the outcome. But, even though you know that to be true, it still sucks that some entity outside of the game itself decided the outcome.

Good analogy

 

[Power Eye]

For everyone saying that we should cancel OOC games… we lost 3 conference games and were 4 and 0 vs OOC.

Honestly think this is more of a call to schedule more strategic in regards of Non conference games. I mean we get nothing by playing a B1G because the B1G is going to get multiple teams in. We should be scheduling more ACC, Big XII, and MWC teams and get rid of the Sunbelt, AAC, and D2 teams. Because common opponents is going to be our best friend going forward.

That’s a good point about scheduling Big 12 and ACC teams. I think Coach Saban’s point is as much why schedule teams you could lose to as it is tough OOC games add to a tough SEC grind on the players and opens SEC teams up to upsets.

 

[Krymsonman]

I blame the OU loss on Sheridan. It's like it was lazy game planning and he tried to "cut and paste" the LSU plan in for OU.

You're correct, and he had no back-up plan for "what if OU is ready for this". They had two weeks to get ready, so they were. Back in the old days, Coach Bryant used to say you needed a plan for everything, whether you're up by 50 or down by 40 in the pouring rain. (something like that). The game plan did not help Jalen, but he was still way off in that game.

 

[Joefus]

Hard to complain when you got three losses and two are bad. Woulda could shoulda sometimes you just can’t get out of your own way.

bright side is only one more game of every thread on this board devolving into a contest over who hates the qb more. Won’t miss that. Nor the qanon level cloak and dagger conspiracy theories regarding a decent chunk of the team. This offseason should be a good chance to reset and move forward.

 

[CajunCrimson]

I will watch Oregon Vs UGA. But that’s likely it.

 

[davefrat]

Hard to complain when you got three losses and two are bad. Woulda could shoulda sometimes you just can’t get out of your own way.

bright side is only one more game of every thread on this board devolving into a contest over who hates the qb more. Won’t miss that. Nor the qanon level cloak and dagger conspiracy theories regarding a decent chunk of the team. This offseason should be a good chance to reset and move forward.

The seeds of discontent and tinfoil hatting have been sown.

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if they continue to sprout up for years to come.

 

[editder]

Apparently the ACC is even worse than the crappy conference SMU came from.

 

[22Musso22]

sad thing is smu will beat State Penn because of the James Franklin factor and then they get boise state and they will win that one too. and then the idiots at espn can say "see we told you so." Nevermind that when they play a real team. they lise by 50. Just ignore all that

State Penn is not losing to that pathetic SMU team. Take that to the bank.

 

[Crimson Speed]

I’m of the opinion now that even if Clemson had won in a blowout, the committee would have kept SMU in. Our only shot was an SMU victory.

The last thing this committee wanted was another “controversy” (not for me but for the talking heads) like Alabama/FSU last year. What they decided to do was politically expedient. It is doing “the easy wrong thing instead of the hard right thing”.

I have to agree that the committee chose the least controversial selection where SMU/Alabama is concerned. But we all need to remember that we could have avoided being on the edge of the cliff by simply winning. Winning essentially takes that option away from the committee. The team failed to do enough to justify a place in the playoffs. There is more than one reason for falling short, but at the top of my list is Milroe. Sure, he had great moments, but too many terrible moments that cost this team. I hope this issue is gone for 2025.

 

[Joefus]

I blame the OU loss on Sheridan. It's like it was lazy game planning and he tried to "cut and paste" the LSU plan in for OU.

I can take a bad game plan or two but continuing the whole game with the same failed strategy when it’s not working is a terrible look and makes me wonder if this is why you only have one short stint as a coordinator previously

 

[rolltd]

LAST ONE TO OPT OUT IS THE STINKER

 

[BamaSC]

State Penn is not losing to that pathetic SMU team. Take that to the bank.

Have you heard of James Franklin? If you have, that’s a pretty bold statement.