College Football Playoff Rankings Fuel SEC Bias Debate

The big movers, the big surprises, Indiana going from four to nine, dropping dramatically. They didn't play. Notre Dame goes from 11 all the way up to five with a win over Miami without Malachi Tony. And Notre Dame is knocking on the door of a first-round bye at the moment. Miami goes from number one after a one-score loss in which they almost had a game-tying touchdown if it wasn't for a replay or a review of the end zone. And the Miami Hurricanes are not going to let that go. They drop all the way down to seven. The last team in at large-wise because Boise State's got your number 12 group of five locked up, so there aren't 12 teams. There's only 11, is Kentucky. Kentucky, they got blown out 34-6 against Tennessee. I couldn't believe this. When I saw Kentucky being a part of this, I was blown away. But the schedule strength for Kentucky is why the committee kept on talking about schedule strength. Schedule strength. Saying that, look, their record is one thing, but their schedule is the big deal. This is important. And so what the committee is saying is that the schedule strength for the Southeastern Conference, The SEC. Where, quote, it just means more, the SEC, now, this is going to be where the SEC can flex. And they're going to get more teams into the bracket because of their schedule strength. Not everybody is on board with this, okay? The College Football Committee is never beating the SEC bias allegations. They have a two-loss Alabama team ahead of UCLA. They have a two-loss Texas team ranked ahead of Miami, who barely lost to Notre Dame without the best receiver in the country. A two-loss Kentucky team is ranked above an undefeated Wake Forest team. Let's just rename the college football playoff the SEC Invitational. And we're doing the whole notebook thing. And I can't argue. I really can't argue. I'm an SEC guy. And even I have a hard time when this bracket comes out. You're looking at this going like, Tennessee is above Indiana. Like, really? Okay. UCLA is now the four seed because they're going to win the Big Ten. No, they're not. But supposedly they're going to win the Big Ten. The Irish would play Boise State. Anybody want to watch Notre Dame and Boise? No, thank you. That's a 25-point ass kicking. BYU is down to 10. Miami is down to 7. Utah, after beating BYU, now is number 2. But Alabama at number 3? 3! Crimson Tide have got two losses. I know they went to LSU and had a really impressive win. I'll give you that. But 3? Texas comes in at 6. I mean, you have a bracket. That bottom right side of the bracket is all SEC. It's Alabama, Texas, Kentucky. It's all SEC. It's like, wait, the top left-hand corner, if you replace Indiana with somebody else, you would have an all SEC top left of the bracket with Tennessee, Georgia, and then an SEC team. But, I mean, look it. You have number one, Georgia. You have number three, Alabama. You have number six, Texas. You have number eight, Tennessee, and number 11, Kentucky. There are only 11 spots, okay? But five of the 11 are SEC schools. Like, I understand that there is a lot of people who are looking at this. And I mean, again, I forget who said this last night on Twitter, so I apologize for stealing the line. But the line was, why is everyone getting so upset? This is not the bracket. This is just a week two bracket, and we should stop having every week. They can't stop having this every week. They need this. Like the SEC. Gets off on this type of controversy because it makes the Big 10 and the Big 12 lose their mind. The committee gets off on this type of controversy because it gets everybody all up in arms and it gets everybody talking. I mean, that's the point. That's the worry with the 2014 playoff. The 2014 playoff means no more arguing, no more conversation. Like the SEC could have 10 teams in a 24 team playoff. Like that's going to be crazy when you stop and think about that 10 teams. I mean, again, Nick Saban has said it like there aren't 24 teams in the country that can win the national championship. And heck, there's not 12 teams in the country that can win the national championship. So 24, I mean, the kickback for the expansion has been so loud from fans and the problem that the fans are in the way they're voting, they're voting by putting down the remote. They're voting by not buying tickets. They're voting by not supporting their teams. And that's a huge issue to me. Apathy is a big worry. And when you're competing against the NFL and Major League Baseball and the NHL in the fall, in the NBA, college basketball, you're competing. People can go and do other things. If they don't like what you're doing, they can go do other things. The 12 team playoff wasn't perfect. I would have preferred 16, but I'll take 12 because of the controversy in the conversation. I don't think this is wrong. Mike says, gives the media something to argue about. It's pointless. It's not pointless. Okay. Because if it was pointless, nobody at the bar would argue who's the best team in the country.