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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/downtimeredditor on 2024-12-21 21:12:14+00:00.
I get that IU and SMU are getting routed, but them getting routed has nothing to do with Bama being excluded in the playoffs.
Playoffs were introduced to expose fraudulent teams i.e. 2012 Notre Dame team and to give teams like the 2009 Boise State team or the 2017 UCF team or heck even last years FSU team a shot at the title. This was partly proven the right move a few years when TCU beat Michigan but kinda disproven when UGA routed them in the Natty game.
Bias in rankings due to one conference getting more favorability rankings is why people often complain about SEC getting over represented in the Championship game in the past when they select the top 2 teams and when playoffs were introduced
The SEC is actually well represented in these playoffs too.
- Oregon(13-0) - Big 10
- Georgia(11-2) - SEC
- Boise State(12-1) - Mountain West
- Arizona State(11-2) - Big 12
- Texas(11-2) - SEC
- Penn State(11-2) - Big 10
- Notre Dame(11-1) - Independent
- Ohio State(10-2) - Big 10
- Tennessee(10-2) - SEC
- Indiana(11-1) - Big 10
- SMU(11-2) - ACC
- Clemson(10-3) - ACC
- Bama(9-3) - SEC
It’s kinda like most other competition like the world cup or champions league where they have the famed “group of death” except in those competitions they were just randomly drawn and put in that group…I don’t want to get conspiratorial for this post…SEC just kept poaching good teams from other conferences and placing them into the SEC and canabalizing themselves. Texas came in year 1 and almost won the conference. OU came in year 1 and routed Bama. So Bama not being in playoffs is kinda on them losing to Vanderbilt and getting routed by OU and the SEC bringing in tougher competition.