TheDeuce

Honestly I'm surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. In general, Corporate America sucks.

Coverage from that night.

Crazy night. I'll never forget it. We had found out we were having our daughter that Monday. I stayed up until I think 3 or 4am to make sure the one monster cell wasn't going to impact us in Louisville.

This is my point. You can be an AQ and be the 12 seed.

It does. You get an automatic bid into the playoffs.

12-0 #1 Alabama plays 12-0 #2 Georgia in the SEC title game. Georgia wins, moves to 13-0, Bama falls to 12-1. 9-3 #23 Boise State wins the Mountain West. Nobody thinks Boise State deserves a bye over Alabama in this scenario. Winning your conference should guarantee you a spot, but not a Top 4 seed in the playoffs.

Not necessarily. Winning your conference (P4 and highest G5) still guarantees you a spot in the playoffs, it just doesn't mean you get an automatic bye.

Give me Rocky Top.

SMU isn't going into Happy Valley and winning.

Under no circumstances can Dabo/Clemson win this game.

They will change how the seeding works going forward. The teams ranked 1-4 in the CFP rankings are who should get the byes, that's not how it is this year. It should be seeded based on the CFP rankings all the way through, without the conference champion factor.

Johnson made some ridiculous throws.

Far and away, for 15 years? Absolutely not. The top of the SEC is always the cream of the crop nationally. That doesn’t mean the rest of the conference is.

“Play more conference games.” Yeah, like they wouldn’t continue to crap on every conference except the SEC.

And crying about ranked wins like the SEC doesn’t CONSTANTLY benefit from rankings bias.