Cane from the Bend wrote:billybud wrote:Spence wrote:billybud wrote:And don't pretend that Bama wasn't a top four team....that was evident by the final snap of the season.
Bama only lost to Auburn....as did Georgia....That is the problem with having divisions. Two teams have an equal 11-1 with the loss to the same team...only it didn't count for the team from a different division. But there was no difference, essentially, between Georgia and Bama..except that Alabama did beat Georgi in their match up.
Auburn's problem was that they lost to Clemson and LSU...prior to losing to Georgia in the rAuburn- Georgia retry and then to UCF.
So head to head shouldn't be a tie breaker in the event that there is a tie?
Well Spence...the problem with Georgia-Alabama that year...is that they did not play head to head in conference (& rarely do)....at the time of the SEC championship game, both teams had lost to Auburn and that was the only loss for both teams...but, being in a different division was all the difference because that put Bama behind Auburn in the West but didn't hurt Georgia in the East.. In the last ten seasons, Bama and Georgia have only been on the SEC regular season conference schedule for one game.
The head to head did eventually come...in the NC game...and Alabama prevailed over Georgia
Yes, which did not need to happen, because the way Divisions work.
Like I said; do away with the SEC Championship if that's how it is going to be justified. If Divisions are the issue, then don't have them ...
Or, if you are going to keep them; then let them serve their purpose.
Anything else is just an excuse.
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The problem isn't divisions, tie breakers, or the blueblood programs that dominate this system. It is having it be controlled by subjectivity instead of the randomness of playing into a tournament by winning your conference or league the same way any every other sport - even pro football determines their champ. Imagine how the owners or fans would react to the NFL to have a committee that puts teams in a playoff determined by any other method but winning. Sure they allow a wild cards based on winning, but even that isn't subjective. No other sport, except for the other big sport the NCAA controls allows this to be done.