News Article: Bama seeded 11th in College Football Playoffs going into conference championship games

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Back in 2011, the naysayers said that we didn't deserve to be in the national championship after losing to LSU by three points on a field goal. But we got in, played them again, and totally shut them out.
Yes but I was just talking about how we may or may not do in the weather. And I was trying to make a point that it can be true we absolutely deserve a playoff berth and also true that we may well struggle and lose due to environmental factors like 6 inches of snow and sub-freezing weather. But we may win as well... both teams have to play in said weather after all and its not as if either Notre Dame or Penn State has played in that kind of an environment this year anyway.

I think the last time Alabama played in any kind of substantial snow was the 1964 Sugar Bowl against Ole Miss. There was like 3 inches of snow that day in New Orleans.
 
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Haters are out in force - every media and social media outlet....lol....when you use an opinion to rank or choose anything then its subjective...CFB is just the pinnacle of subjectivity
We'll come to a point one day where we just let Artificial Intelligence do the final rankings instead of a committee. Except who will be putting what data into the AI?
 

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We'll come to a point one day where we just let Artificial Intelligence do the final rankings instead of a committee. Except who will be putting what data into the AI?
Coming from someone that likes computer rankings and AI, I still think there should be a human element to the rankings. But I do think it should be more data driven, it's clear that some people can't wrap their heads around the fact that there are two super conference, one (weak) power conference, and the rest are group of what ever. They are still trying to treat wins and losses as being somewhat equitable. They're not.

Let's compare some computer composite rankings to the committee:
Committee Computer
Boise State: 10 31
Alabama: 11 5
Arizona St.: 15 25

The gaps shouldn't be that substantial and it's interesting that they are really close in some cases, just lose all logic in other cases. Humans seem to have trouble understanding SoS, it's so simple that it's hard for me to understand why but even seemingly smart people get really derpy when it comes to SoS.
 

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Going to be interesting how the seeding changes after the Championship games. Right now Penn State gets to play Arizona State and Boise. If they win the Championship they would be playing 1 less game that game could be vs a much better team.

Right now Oregon being set to play winner of Ohio State and Tennessee seems like a punishment for being the 1 seed.
The top seed will likely always get punished, because this format treats mediocre teams in trash conferences as equivalent to the top teams in top conferences. The top seed should be playing somebody like Boise.
 

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