Top 4 teams? Don't lose if you want that distinction

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Totally messed up if they keep Florida State out of the playoffs just because their starting QB is out. You know we'd be pissed if we were in that exact situation. You cannot punish a team, because of an injury.

I think the playoffs should be

#1 Michigan
#2 Washington
#3 Florida State
#4 Alabama

I think Alabama gets in over Texas, even though they lost H2H, for a couple of reasons.

1. The win was so long ago. It was the 2nd game of the season and before the teams got to ramp up.

2. Bama has 11 straight wins now, including the SEC championship game.

3. Bama had a bit tougher overall schedule than Texas. Bama's opponents went 98-61 and Texas's opponents went 91-67. Bama also played 4 opponents ranked in the top 13, including the #1 team and went 3-1. Texas played 3 top 25 teams (#8, #12, #19) and went 2-1. The rankings are from the college football playoffs rankings and will obviously change and more than likely #19 OK State drops out of the top 25, so that puts Texas at just 2 games in the top 25 rankings at the end of the year.

This is how I think the rankings will go. This isn't what I would do. Quite frankly I don't know what I'd do.

Edit- Also, I think Bama gets in over Texas because they're not going to keep the SEC out of the college football playoffs. Theyve had these playoffs since the 2014-2015 season and the SEC has never not had a team in it.
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Texas beat Bama. That doesn’t count?
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You see, that didn't count. Alabama wasn't ready to play. It was so long ago.

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Florida State is the only team to hold Louisville to single digits scoring this year.

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You can't put Bama ahead of Texas
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No SEC team should be in the playoffs after today. The PAC 12 was the best division in CFB this year. Winning the SEC Championship game doesn’t hold as much weight as it did a few years ago.
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How is it messed up? The job of the committee is to pick the 4 best teams at this moment and FSU is very clearly not one of them.
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What does being a conference champion have to do with who are the best 4 teams right now?
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It’s just a real shame that we are going to have to debate whether Alabama or Texas should get a playoff spot.

If only they had played each other… but even if they had, the home team would have had a significant advantage so that’s not very fair.

— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 3, 2023

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They just held a top 15 team to 6 points and beat them by 2 scores.
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And Alabama would be a 24 point favorite on them if they played tomorrow.
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Well, it's on top of their prioritizing their selections of comparable teams. I'd argue they're not comparative as FSU is undefeated

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I said it's not what I would do, but what I think the selection committee will do. I know there talking points. I gave you the reasons for why they will say it doesn't count. You really think they're not gonna put in an SEC team?
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Guess which criteria there is the most interesting one considering the present discussion. It isn't the top one.
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