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I want to find the tweets from 2021 Cotton Bowl (in Dallas) about how ND getting blown out by Bama means they should never play in the CFP again …

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,@HunterYurachek good thing these fucking clowns are in the playoff huh? Ranked ahead of ND, Miami, BYU?

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@BillPlaschke You are such an enormous pussy

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@UnnecRoughness Anyone else notice A&M with twelve men on the field (check replay)

[Jack Trice Mafia @JackTriceMafia]

“There is nothing more important to college football fans than ensuring we have the most boring, sterile National Championship Game between Georgia and Ohio State in an NFL Stadium each year”

[SharpeWit @TheSharpeWit]

⚠️ Warning: Extremely long post about the CFP — but it needs to be said.

Since the beginning of the College Football Playoff, there has been only ONE team that was in position to make the playoff, lost a conference championship game, had idle teams behind them, and did not drop in the rankings the following week:

2025 Alabama.

There have been only TWO teams total who were in CFP position, lost a conference championship game, and did not fall at all:

• 2022 TCU
• 2025 Alabama

Let’s talk about why those situations are not the same — and why the Alabama one is a problem.

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2022 TCU

TCU was ranked #3 and lost the Big 12 Championship by 3 points in overtime.

The team directly behind them at #4 USC got blown out by 23 in their conference championship game.

If the committee dropped TCU to #4 and moved idle #5 Ohio State to #3, Michigan would have played Ohio State twice in three games, and OSU would have faced Michigan back-to-back.

That was a clear structural reason not to reshuffle the rankings.

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Now compare that to 2025

This is where it gets uncomfortable.

• Both teams around Alabama were idle — yet Alabama doesn’t drop to #10
• Both teams around BYU were idle — BYU drops to #12
• Both teams around UVA were idle — UVA drops to #19

So let’s be honest:

Is dropping Alabama to #10 really “punishment” when they’re in either way?

Or are we protecting the ACC’s last at-large team by making sure no one sits between Miami and Notre Dame?

Because if Alabama drops to 10, suddenly there’s a problem the committee doesn’t want to solve.

And let’s be clear — that’s the ACC’s fault, not Notre Dame’s.

The ACC Championship tiebreaker was asinine. If Miami had been in the ACCCG and lost, does anyone actually believe they wouldn’t have dropped?

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History is very clear

Conference championship losers have absolutely been passed by idle teams and missed the playoff:

• 2022 USC
• 2017 Penn State
• 2015 Iowa
• 2017 Auburn — beat Georgia three weeks earlier, then lost the SECCG and got jumped

So the argument that “Alabama beat Georgia earlier” is not a shield.

We’ve seen that exact scenario before — and it didn’t matter then.

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Ranking position shouldn’t matter

Whether you’re ranked 1 or 22, the criteria should be applied the same way.

4-team playoff
12-team playoff
16-team playoff

The rules don’t change.

Yes, fringe teams will get squeezed sometimes — that’s the trade-off.

Playing a conference championship game gives you control:
• Win and you’re in
• Lose and you hope the cards fall your way

That’s how the system has always worked.

So stop with the “we can’t punish conference championship losers” narrative.

It’s simply false — and honestly, idiotic.

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It gets worse when you look at the week before

Go back one week before the conference championship games.

Alabama got moved UP after a “great” 27–20 win over 5–7 Auburn — a team that was:
• Winless at home vs SEC teams
• Playing under an interim head coach

Why did Alabama move up?

Because leaving them at #10 would have caused issues if:
• BYU won
• Alabama lost the CCG

Suddenly the committee might have had to bump Alabama out.

So they preemptively solved the problem.

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And the résumé argument doesn’t hold up

“Alabama beat four ranked teams in a row and has the best win of the year.”

No — they didn’t.

• Georgia dog-walked them last week, proving teams change
• Only two of those wins are still ranked
• Vanderbilt, Tennessee, and Missouri have ZERO wins over ranked teams
• Tennessee and Missouri have a combined ZERO wins over FBS teams with winning records

Those rankings were inflated by preseason bias.

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So what’s actually going on?

Why can’t we question this?

There has been no rule change saying conference championship losers can’t drop.

This is not a Notre Dame problem.
This is a CFP problem.

And the longer we pretend otherwise, the worse the credibility gap gets.

[Nicole Auerbach @NicoleAuerbach]

The College Football Playoff selection committee really screwed up this time.

The process has to work for the CFP to earn and keep our trust. This one didn’t. This one made a mockery of the whole sport.

COLUMN: https://t.co/bDIV1rB4bF

[Mike Monaco @MikeMonaco_]

I went to Notre Dame.

I thought Miami should’ve been ahead of Notre Dame the whole time. Head to head has to matter, IMO.

BUT: To say Notre Dame is a better team every single week, then to flip them with Miami when neither team played is not only illogical, but nonsensical.

[Exposing SEC Bias @overrated_sec]

Ohio St lost and fell.

BYU lost and fell.

Virginia lost and fell.

What happened when Alabama got dominated while racking up -3 rushing yards?

[Avery Goodboy @lowkeythicc]

@Matt_Fortuna Rece was great here … someone has to ask the tough questions

[Avery Goodboy @lowkeythicc]

@TimBrando Rece asked the hard questions that committee needs to answer to. Last year they said idle teams would not move relative to each other. What has changed in five days? Bama lost a game and stays safe?

[Chief @BarstoolChief]

Make it make sense

[Avery Goodboy @lowkeythicc]

You can’t argue with H2H mattering. But the committee now looks like the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet. What changed within five days. Any remaining shred of credibility is absolutely gone. Jesus fucking Christ.

[Avery Goodboy @lowkeythicc]

Regardless of what happens, get ready for more overreactions like Big 12 adding conference championship in (2014)season or no conference champion requirement for first round bye (2024). Most likely options: P4 conferences removing CCG, more teams considering independence…

[Bruce Feldman @BruceFeldmanCFB]

@bykevinclark This is all so fucking stupid. They just keep making it up as they go along. It’s like the CFP committee is going out of its way to show that the sport is run by morons.