chicowalker
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Except LSU beat Alabama in the regular season just like they beat everyone else they played. Alabama only got a second chance because they got put into a championship game they didn't earn their way into.
I'd be fine with Alabama winning the national championship if they had earned it. If there was a playoff and they won out fine. But they ended up as 3rd place in the SEC so I don't see any logical way to catapult them in front of Oklahoma State, Stanford, Oregon, etc to a shot at the title regardless of what sportswriters and other coaches think. If a real playoff is implemented then whoever wins wins. But picking 4 teams, either you just do 1-4 and 2-3 matchups to determine who plays for the title and disregard conference championships totally (as in not even play the games) or you take the 4 conference champs with best records and forget the rankings. You can't have it both ways.
the logical reason is that all the teams you mentioned lost games, too
A 4-team playoff remains highly flawed, but as another poster said, it now opens the door to a good playoff system. (like kontra, I'd say 1 12-team playoff would be ideal. Yes, there will be arguments about who should be the final spot or 2 (just like there are questionable calls at the bubble in the basketball tourney), but no team ranked 13th or 14th will have an argument that they're actually the best team in the nation.