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Warde Manuel Explains Alabama Ranking Over Miami in CFP
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12/4/2024
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Speaking of Ward Manuel, who is the chair of the committee, here it is.
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I know you've been waiting for it.
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This is him explaining why Alabama is ahead of Miami and in that last spot instead of
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them.
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This is from ESPN last night.
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What it came down to is that we evaluated both teams and looked at how they rank.
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Obviously we think highly of both teams, one's at 11, one's at 12, but what it really came
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down to is Alabama is 3-1 against current top 25 teams and Miami is 0-1.
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Alabama is 6-1 against teams above 500 and Miami is 4-2.
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Both have had some losses that weren't what they wanted out of those games, but in the
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last three games Miami has lost two twice.
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And so for us, in evaluating their body of work, we felt that Alabama got the edge over
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Miami.
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Well the body of work is complete for Alabama, for Miami, for Ole Miss, for South Carolina.
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There's one more ranking to do.
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Well where's Reese?
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What could change?
01:12
Could it change?
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Is it set?
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Yes, it could change.
01:17
It all depends on the outcome of these games.
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Oh, he's so full of his jack, this guy.
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I mean, whatever.
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I'm done.
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I'm done with it.
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I don't even want to talk about it anymore.
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I'm going to have a stroke.
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It can make you very upset, especially if one of your teams is involved, and even if
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it's not one of your teams.
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Of all things, this year it came down to my team is taking it in the arse.
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At the end of the day, Cam Ward was a Heisman finalist.
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The Miami offense is awesome.
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Alabama can lose by 21 at Oklahoma, but they don't even evaluate that at all.
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It's like a bad day that didn't count.
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It's like saying yesterday didn't happen.
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Monday and Tuesday didn't count because Wednesday was so beautiful.
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It's just the most ridiculous reasoning I've ever listened to.
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And then at the end of the day, the five-time national champs get just shafted because they
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lost by five and lost by four to really good teams and really good quarterbacks.
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I evaluate things based on losses, not on wins.
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Not on wins.
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Like I even said, they barely beat Cal, they came back from 35 down, so they don't deserve
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anything.
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I told you they didn't deserve to be in the playoff.
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It's not that, it's who they put in instead.
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They put in everyone's favorite puppy, the cute little adorable Alabama Crimson Tide,
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no matter what.
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Honest to Christ, they could effing lose seven games and they would still be in this goddamn
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playoff.
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And you know it.
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They would still be in the playoff if they lost seven games.
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They'd find a way to get them in.
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They'd find a way.
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It's unbelievable.
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