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Wisconsin kept Alabama out of the College Football Playoff

Wisconsin kept Alabama out of the College Football Playoff

The Wisconsin Badgers are to thank for the Alabama Crimson Tide missing the 12-team College Football Playoff.

Imagine reading that sentence back in August before the season began. The likely reason for that reality, if projecting forward, would have been Wisconsin notching a signature win over Alabama when the Crimson Tide visited Madison.

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Nope, that did not happen. Alabama dominated Wisconsin 42-10 in the Week 3 meeting. The Badgers lost starting quarterback Tyler Van Dyke on the opening drive to a season-ending injury. The team showed some fight, holding the score within 11 points in the minutes approaching halftime. But the Crimson Tide struck quickly for an end-of-half score to broaden its lead to 21-3, then added another seven points to start the third quarter to break the game open.

At the time, it was a strong win for the Crimson Tide. A road nonconference win against a strong Big Ten program usually would be a resume-booster.

But in this case, Wisconsin’s end-of-season five-game losing streak and final 5-7 record took the shine away from Alabama’s win. It made the win mostly unimpressive, which proved to be a significant factor when the CFP committee held the Crimson Tide out of the 12-team field in favor of an 11-2 SMU team.

The Crimson Tide and Mustangs were the final two teams in contention for the last at-large bid. SMU is 11-2 with a ACC title game loss to Clemson, while Alabama is 9-3 with losses to Vanderbilt, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Many believe that the committee’s precedent of adding Alabama over an undefeated ACC champion Florida State in 2023 would lead to them favoring the Crimson Tide again this season.

Whether they should have or not, Alabama’s resume was deemed less impressive than SMU’s. Connecting the dots, that win over Wisconsin could have been the difference, had the Badgers gone on to finish 8-4 or 9-3. Instead, the Badgers missed a bowl game, and held Alabama out of the playoff.

Wisconsin and Alabama will meet in Tuscaloosa in 2025.

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College Football Playoff committee makes revisions for the 2024 season and releases playoff dates

Do the revised CFP rules help the Tide’s chances in 2024?

No sport in America is changing as rapidly as college football is, and it’s happening right in front of our eyes. From the introduction of NIL to the transfer portal to coaching changes and so much more, the landscape of the entire sport is different than it was just five years ago.

If you don’t like change, then college football probably isn’t for you as there is much more of it coming in 2024. First of all, the pressing matter in college football is the conference realignment. Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington are all slated to join the Big Ten with Oklahoma and Texas both joining the SEC. We are trending towards those two mega conferences with rumors of a potential split from the NCAA on the horizon and the ACC and Big 12 on the outside looking in.

However, the biggest and most exciting change is that the Playoffs will be expanding to a 12-team format in 2024. The CFP committee released a statement today saying, “The CFP Board of Managers unanimously revised the qualifying criteria for the 12-team event to include the five highest-ranked conference champions plus the next seven highest-ranked teams determined by the CFP Selection Committee.”

The committee also released the CFP schedule for the 2024 season. The First round will be Dec. 20 and Dec. 21. The Quarterfinals will be Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. The Semifinals will be Jan. 9 and Jan. 10. The CFP National Championship will be Jan. 20.

For Alabama, you could not have asked for a better tear to switch to the 12-team playoff. With the loss of [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag], there is going to be a bit of a fall off even as good as [autotag]Kalen DeBoer[/autotag] is. The Crimson Tide will play one of the toughest schedules of anyone in the country this season, so it definitely helps to potentially be afforded an extra loss or two while DeBoer gets up and running in the SEC.

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Commanders respond to Colts owner Jim Irsay

The Washington Commanders respond to Colts owner Jim Irsay.

The Washington Commanders wasted no time responding to Colts owner Jim Irsay Tuesday.

“It is unfortunate that Mr. Irsay decided to go public with his statement today, while an investigation is in process, and the team had no opportunity to formally respond to the allegations,” a Commanders spokesperson said.

Here’s the full statement, courtesy of Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post.

It had already been made public that officially nothing was scheduled for Tuesday’s owner’s meeting involving the matter of Daniel Snyder as the owner of the Washington Commanders.

However, there was to be an owners-only session Tuesday afternoon. It was believed that the NFL owners have reached the point that they at least must unofficially discuss Snyder’s ownership of the Washington Commanders.

Irsay today had declared, “I believe there is merit to removing him as owner.”

“I just think that once owners talk amongst each other, they’ll arrive to the right decision,” Irsay stated. “My belief is that, unfortunately, I believe that that’s the road we probably need to go down, and we just need to finish the investigation. But it’s gravely concerning to me, the things that have occurred there over the last 20 years.”

Irsay reminded his audience that it is the NFL owners who are to be responsible to address this issue responsibly. “I think serious consideration has to be given to the removal and we have complete authority to do that.”

Mr. Snyder has been and remains the subject of two investigations. One is by the NFL itself, and the other is being conducted by the U.S. Congress Committee of Oversight and Reform.

Meet the 2022 College Football Playoff Selection Committee

Here are the 13 members on the College Football Playoff Selection Committee

Last week, the College Football Playoff Selection Committee gathered to prepare for the upcoming 2022 season.

The 13 member committee discussed protocol and finalized its list of members who will be recused from voting or discussions regarding selected teams.

It also released the schedule for its weekly ranking announcements. The first rankings will be released on Tuesday, November 1, following Week 8 of the regular season. You can see the full schedule of the rankings here.

Below are the 13 individuals who will be on the College Football Playoff Selection Committee for the 2022 season:

College Football Playoff: Four more years of four teams

Should the Playoff expand beyond four teams?

The College Football Playoff will remain at four teams for the next four years until the contract expires following the 2025 season.

This means we have four more years of a four team playoff and the earliest we could potentially see expansion for the postseason would be in 2026, but that would hardly be a certainty, either.

I know a lot of the message boards and social media will be filled with fans who are outraged over the fact that the playoff isn’t expanding but personally I’m happy it isn’t.

Six, eight, or 12 teams instead of four aren’t going take away from the dominance of the SEC and the stranglehold they have on the rest of college football.  It will mean more meaningful postseason games, sure, but will further water down what is the best regular season in all of sports.

We and the rest of the college wire sites will have more on this throughout the day.

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