Alabama football did enough on Saturday by beating a five-win Auburn team to climb back into the College Football Playoff bracket. The selection committee released its latest ranking on Tuesday to reflect the action that happened in Week 14.
The major debate after Saturday was what would happen after Miami suffered a 42-38 upset on the road at Syracuse. The Hurricanes started the season strong, but have lost two of their last three games. One of the losses came to a 6-4 Georgia Tech that should have beaten Georgia on Saturday. The second was to a 9-3 Syracuse team. Saturday’s loss dropped Miami out of the ACC championship.
Alabama football gets the benefit of the doubt

The selection committee had to choose between Miami and three three-loss SEC teams (Ole Miss, Alabama, and South Carolina). The committee chose to bump up the Crimson Tide two spots to No. 11. Miami sits at No. 12, but would be left out of the CFP because of automatic conference championship bids.
Ole Miss and South Carolina are right behind the Hurricanes but appear out of the CFP, as the committee has no reason to let those schools jump into the Top 12 during conference championship weekend.
College football fans on social media were not amused with the selection committee finding a way to put Alabama back into the CFP. The Crimson Tide have had inexcusable losses to 6-6 Vanderbilt and a 24-3 defeat to Oklahoma on Nov. 23.
Frankly, no one really cares that a two-loss Miami team isn’t getting into the playoffs, they care that the selection committee is shoving Alabama down our throats for another year.
Rigged for Alabama?

“They’ve successfully rigged the results to make sure Bama makes the playoffs so that’s something that will never change. 100% believe they would go in at 7-5,” wrote a fan.
“So Alabama could lose to two 6-6 football teams, and the College Football Playoff committee’s reasoning is still “strength of schedule” and “quality of wins,” completely disregarding the losses. This is exactly why I say this system is rigged and operates like a monopoly created by one conference the SEC. It’s the same bias we saw in the 4-team playoff era This is a joke,” posted another.
“So 95% of teams get 1 loss max. But Alabama gets 3 losses max. Ok, got it. So rigged,” commented one fan.
“That’s just wrong. Ole Miss should have been in over Bama easily. They also beat UGA and USC but importantly did not get blown out all year. This happened but the rigged committee put Alabama in anyway, like we all knew they would,” posted a fan.
“south carolina beat a top 12 team on the road and only moved up one spot but alabama moved up 2 spots after beating 5-6 auburn the committee is definitely not biased and rigged at all!!!!,” wrote another.

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