Finally, after the Alabama Crimson Tide embarrassed themselves in a 38-3 Rose Bowl loss to the Indiana Hoosiers on New Year's Day, the College Football world is acknowledging Kalen DeBoer's squad never deserved to be in the CFP to begin with.
FanSided's Alicia de Artola was the truth-teller who pointed out that the Miami Hurricanes have been unfairly scapegoated as the sole reason the Notre Dame Fighting Irish didn't make the 12-team field, when all along, it should've been Alabama.
"Maybe Notre Dame should have spent more energy complaining about Alabama getting into the College Football Playoff instead of being so laser focused on Miami. As it turns out, the Hurricanes very much belonged to be there. The Crimson Tide at least won their first round game before being torn asunder by Indiana," de Artola wrote.
Miami beat Notre Dame. Why would the Canes be the ones people felt were undeserving? The Crimson Tide had the worst loss of the bunch, plus, it was literally the day before the field was announced: a 28-7 embarrassment at the hands of the Georgia Bulldogs in the SEC Championship Game.
"But the SEC" doesn't work here. The SEC has been catching losses all bowl season to other conferences.
Alabama benefitted from brand bias this year. Hopefully, they ruined it for any undeserving big brand in the future who doesn't deserve a spot in the field. It probably won't, since everyone is holding it against the James Madison Dukes and Tulane Green Wave for losing in the same fashion and the Joel Klatt's of the world are conveniently quiet now.
Texas Tech killed BYU's CFP argument with pitiful loss to Oregon
The BYU Cougars, who used to be in the same boat as the Fighting Irish as a scorned program that was snubbed by the CFP selection committee, can no longer lay claim to being an obnoxious snub. Not after the Texas Tech Red Raiders laid an egg in a 23-0 loss to the Oregon Ducks.
It's not even fair for BYU. Just because they lost to Texas Tech twice doesn't mean they would've been embarrassed in the same fashion by Oregon.
Oh well. That's the business. Conference reputations are built on a handful of games every year. The Big 12 was unfathomably failed by the Red Raiders on Thursday.