After the primary spherical of the Faculty Soccer Playoff, we heard numerous squawking a few couple groups getting blown out and thus unfit of being a part of the competitors.
Cool, let’s play the sport that approach.
Last rating from Jan. 1: Indiana 38, Alabama 3 on the Rose Bowl.
Guess what Alabama? That end result exhibits you didn’t belong within the area. That was a minor-league efficiency and a serious beat down.
Former Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban can inform us a bit concerning the minor leagues.
That was his approach of taking pictures at Tulane and James Madison, two applications exterior of the main conferences who made the sector earlier than dropping their first video games.
“Would we enable the winner of the Triple-A baseball league — the Worldwide League, I don’t even know the identify of it — would you allow them to within the World Collection? That’s the equal of what we do when JMU will get within the Playoff, and Notre Dame doesn’t,” Saban stated on the Pat McAfee Present.
Initially, Saban might use a fact-checker as a result of Notre Dame didn’t miss the playoffs due to James Madison or Tulane.
These two non-elite applications made the sector as a result of an 8-5 Duke workforce was the Atlantic Coast Convention champion and the CFP guidelines – put collectively by huge wigs like Southeastern Convention commissioner Greg Sankey – cites that the 5 highest-ranked convention champions robotically qualify no matter their rating.
So apparently, the choice makers of the SEC, Huge Ten, Huge 12 and ACC by no means envisioned one in every of their very own convention champs could be ranked so low. Fairly dangerous foresight from the oldsters making the foundations.
Final 12 months, byes had been awarded to the top-four ranked convention champions and Boise State of the Mountain West – one of many outsider leagues – earned a bye. So the choice makers modified the rule to ensure that by no means occurs once more.
If you must change the {qualifications} after each season, guess what: You’re not superb at making guidelines.
As for Notre Dame, it was handed over as an at-large workforce. Miami obtained one of many closing berths. The No. 10 Hurricanes have proven that was an outstanding resolution by the choice committee as they’re one of many 4 groups left.
The second-to-last workforce to get in was Alabama – that’s the place the issue lies if you’re dissatisfied the Preventing Irish aren’t concerned.
The Crimson Tide obtained smoked 28-7 by Georgia within the SEC championship sport, making themselves a three-loss workforce. That was the time to punt Alabama’s season into the Gulf of Mexico.
The Crimson Tide obtained into the sector and beat Oklahoma within the first spherical. Good job. Let’s get Alabama some participation trophies.
However nice that they received as a result of we obtained to see Indiana annihilate the Crimson Tide in Pasadena, exhibiting all of us that Alabama isn’t even Williamsport-worthy this season.
Ought to Notre Dame have made the sector? In all probability. However the choice committee was deciding between the Preventing Irish and Miami for the final spot.
The Hurricanes received the head-to-head assembly so that call was very easy. Goodbye Notre Dame.
But when Miami had been the No. 9 seed and the ultimate resolution was between Notre Dame and Alabama, you would have gone both approach on that selection.
The Crimson Tide wanted a late landing to beat Auburn (1-7 in SEC play) earlier than getting steamrolled by Georgia within the SEC title sport.
Sorry, the 56-0 win over Japanese Illinois and the 73-0 rout over UL Monroe imply nothing to anybody.
Wait, coach Saban, did somebody say UL Monroe?
That’s a program in a non-power convention that has had precisely one successful marketing campaign prior to now 45 seasons. That’s the kind of program which may qualify as “Triple-A,” proper?
It might be extremely embarrassing to ever lose to a workforce like that, proper?
Please don’t inform Saban it was him teaching the Crimson Tide after they misplaced 21-14 to visiting UL Monroe on Nov. 17, 2007.
OK, so getting blown out by Indiana wasn’t Alabama’s low level.
