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loservol said:
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Projecting the CFP top 25 after Week 13: Where does 3-loss Alabama land?

We assess how the committee will stack the top teams in the country after Week 13.
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The arguments about a three-loss SEC team in the 12-team College Football Playoff began even before the scenario presented itself.

Now it's here."
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You said THEY WERE THREATENING TO CALL THE PLAYOFF COMMITTEE to get Alabama in. “They” being Fowler and Herbstreit. You have not shown anything resembling proof of that claim. Because you made it up.

Linking an article by Heather Dinich that puts Alabama into her projected field, does nothing to substantiate that claim. It has nothing to do with what Fowler and Herbstreit said on air last night. Nothing.
 
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loservol said:
www.espn.com

Projecting the CFP top 25 after Week 13: Where does 3-loss Alabama land?

We assess how the committee will stack the top teams in the country after Week 13.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

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The arguments about a three-loss SEC team in the 12-team College Football Playoff began even before the scenario presented itself.

Now it's here."
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I think the argument that a 3-loss team is qualified is pretty lame. 5-3 against quality competition doesn’t really seem like a NC resume.

Of course 0-1 against quality competition is also questionable (looking at you Indiana).
 
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The BEST thing about the call (horrible call by the way...like soooo many others) is that maybe, just maybe the SEC starts to push for better officials in the future.
 
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loservol said:
How many undercover Bama moles are on this board? That was the funniest thing ever that a bad call finally happened to the so called golden child and the ensuing broadcast booth meltdown that followed.
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Bama is due about a hundred more calls like that to even things up from calls they have gotten in the past.
 
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loservol said:
I don't know how any true Vol fan could think those two broadcast clowns handled last night's situation the right way. They were even threatening to call the playoff committee and demand that a 3 loss Bama be admitted into the playoffs.
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I think any broadcaster that doesn't talk up the game and the two teams on the field as being the center of the CFB universe is incompetent at calling a game. It keeps eyes on their game and makes viewers with no affiliation with the game less likely to check out a different game. It is how it's done.
 
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The difference, my dear Vols and Bammer defenders, is that if the call had gone against Tennessee, the ESPN crew would either have agreed with it, or mildly condemned it and moved on, and in the next 10 minutes of the telecast slowly justified it.

If it's Bama or uga on the short end, the crew goes off the rails.

It was a bad call, agreed. Its just interesting to watch the differences in reactions.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Some of y’all are ridiculous. He’s not biased for calling out the refs there. That was an absurd call. The refs literally made up a penalty to wipe off a TD.

Kirk was exactly right. He was doing his job. You not liking Alabama doesn’t make him wrong for calling out that abysmal call. If that was Tennessee, you’d be crying that he didn’t condemn it hard enough.
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VAVol85 said:
I think the argument that a 3-loss team is qualified is pretty lame. 5-3 against quality competition doesn’t really seem like a NC resume.

Of course 0-1 against quality competition is also questionable (looking at you Indiana).
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Alabama, Ole Miss, and A&M are more qualified than Indiana, who would be a 7-5 team playing in the SEC.
 
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I watch Herbie/Fowler with sound muted. I figure I know enough about college football that I can make my own mind up about what is going on, plus I like listening to old surf songs from the sixties during the games. Lost respect for Fowler for his role in the Woodson for Heisman campaign, and Herbie, just another know it all. Only time you really need sound is when a play is under review.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Some of y’all are ridiculous. He’s not biased for calling out the refs there. That was an absurd call. The refs literally made up a penalty to wipe off a TD.

Kirk was exactly right. He was doing his job. You not liking Alabama doesn’t make him wrong for calling out that abysmal call. If that was Tennessee, you’d be crying that he didn’t condemn it hard enough.
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*slow clap* I know this is a rival board,but Herbie was right. At the end of the day, as a UT fan,everyone on here should be happy with the final score. Alabama looked awful against an below average Oklahoma.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Some of y’all are ridiculous. He’s not biased for calling out the refs there. That was an absurd call. The refs literally made up a penalty to wipe off a TD.

Kirk was exactly right. He was doing his job. You not liking Alabama doesn’t make him wrong for calling out that abysmal call. If that was Tennessee, you’d be crying that he didn’t condemn it hard enough.
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It was a bad call, and I laughed my a** off because it was about dam* TIME!
 
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sami said:
Yes it is. I for one miss the hell out of the CBS broadcasts. Nessler is the best in the business, and Danielson's obnoxiousness lessened greatly when that self absorbed load Lundquist finally retired.
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I didn’t notice it lessening at all. He’s always been a pompous windbag and always will be. I did like Nessler though.
 
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DooleyOrangePants said:
That was what I heard. Some mental gymnastics started to creep in and you just knew that it was about making sure a 3 loss Bama team was in the playoffs.

I expect to hear more of this as the week opens up. There will be several calling for it and you watch more than one try to argue that Bama “deserves it more than X”.

There’s already CBS articles this morning talking about how the SEC is “painfully average” this year, so the push is on to steer the committee for several teams that arguably don’t deserve it.
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And if Auburn wins the Iron Bowl then the debate will begin about adding a 4-loss Bama team.
 
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Can someone explain to me why Bama should be ranked ahead of Ole Miss? Both beat Georgia. Ole Miss in more convincing fashion. Ole Miss lost in OT to LSU, barely lost to a bad Kentucky team, lost by one TD to Florida. Bama lost to Vandy, got decimated by OU, lost to the Vols. Bama looked absolutely outclassed by OU, Ole Miss was close in all their losses and crushed Georgia by more points.
 
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If the CFP feels obliged to let in 3-loss teams, they need to make the bracket smaller. There is no way a 3-loss team can legitimately claim to be a NC contender.

I would rather have a 1-loss conf champion from a suspect conference, at least that settles a debate. For a 3-loss team, the debate is over, you are not a champion.
 
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