I was thinking about this earlier today....if Alabama had lost to Auburn, but still beat Georgia, who gets into the playoffs? I think it's 11-1 non-conference champion Georgia, probably at the expense of Texas. Because the SEC just has an automatic bid to this thing, and it means someone else is going to get hosed. The whole thing is a sham because one conference gets to play by different rules.
I think that's what it would've taken to make the SEC's case so bad that not even the CFP would argue it. FSU at 3, since Texas would no longer have a win over a particularly impressive Bama, and then Texas at 4 with head to head over Bama. But this is all based on 2014-2022 "pretend we give a shit" committee
Jason, I did figure out that Alabama does in fact have a transitive loss to NMSU.
New Mexico State beat Auburn
Auburn beat Arkansas
Arkansas beat FIU
FIU beat UCONN
UCONN beat Rice
Rice beat Houston
Houston beat WVU
WVU beat Texas Tech
Texas Tech beat Kansas
Kansas beat OU
OU beat Texas
Texas beat Alabama
LSU-WIS tailgate >>>> LSU-WIS game
I was thinking about this earlier today....if Alabama had lost to Auburn, but still beat Georgia, who gets into the playoffs? I think it's 11-1 non-conference champion Georgia, probably at the expense of Texas. Because the SEC just has an automatic bid to this thing, and it means someone else is going to get hosed. The whole thing is a sham because one conference gets to play by different rules.
I think that's what it would've taken to make the SEC's case so bad that not even the CFP would argue it. FSU at 3, since Texas would no longer have a win over a particularly impressive Bama, and then Texas at 4 with head to head over Bama. But this is all based on 2014-2022 "pretend we give a shit" committee