Teams with three losses could qualify for the playoff, something Nick Saban is not fond of. The retired coach especially dislikes teams that have loss to 'average' opponents.
During his storied coaching career, Nick Saban rarely shied away from an opportunity to express his thoughts about a topic related to college football. During his latest appearance on the 'Pat McAfee Show,' the seven-time national championship winning coach discussed some of the potential drawbacks of the new 12-team College Football Playoff format. Under the expanded playoff, the five highest-ranked conference champions will receive an automatic postseason bid.
By giving the conference champions, when they're not the highest-ranked teams, the bye... what it really affects is the path to the championship,' he argued. And when you don't seed the teams based on the quality of the total season performance...' he continued. 'The number one seed should have, technically, the easiest path to the championship and that doesn't really happen when you allow conference champions to get seeded in the top-four when they're not one of the top-four teams.' Last week's slate of college football games featured several upsets.
If Georgia actually plays in the SEC Championship Game, they really shouldn’t be penalized if they should happen to lose the game,' Saban said. 'They would end up with three losses. I don’t think a team that didn’t play in the championship game that has two losses should get in, especially if they played a good game and it wasn’t a blowout.' Oregon remained in the top spot in the latest playoff rankings, with Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, and Notre Dame rounding out the top-5.
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