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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 10/12/2024

I wrote about why it was existential that SMU make the playoff over Alabama. CFB only works if it holds the illusion of a quasi-level playing field. Last year's FSU exclusion put that in danger. The committee couldn't do it again. @slate.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2024...

You might rather have a playoff with Alabama in it. SMU has almost no chance to win four games in a row, while Alabama would have a small but real one, owing to its deeper roster with more elite talent. But the playoff committee, whether it ever admits it or not, has a more serious burden on it than just seeding 12 teams in a bracket. The committee is in charge of the sport’s marquee event, the sun that every game all season now revolves around. These bureaucrats are now custodians of the whole sport, and their decisions have the power to make everything else matter more, or less. SMU will play for a national championship, and fans of more teams can at least dream up a world in which their school does too

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 10/12/2024

I wrote about why it was existential that SMU make the playoff over Alabama. CFB only works if it holds the illusion of a quasi-level playing field. Last year's FSU exclusion put that in danger. The committee couldn't do it again. @slate.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2024...

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