Warde Manuel Explains Alabama Ranking Over Miami in CFP

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00:00Speaking of Ward Manuel, who is the chair of the committee, here it is.

00:07I know you've been waiting for it.

00:08This is him explaining why Alabama is ahead of Miami and in that last spot instead of

00:14them.

00:15This is from ESPN last night.

00:16What it came down to is that we evaluated both teams and looked at how they rank.

00:22Obviously we think highly of both teams, one's at 11, one's at 12, but what it really came

00:27down to is Alabama is 3-1 against current top 25 teams and Miami is 0-1.

00:36Alabama is 6-1 against teams above 500 and Miami is 4-2.

00:42Both have had some losses that weren't what they wanted out of those games, but in the

00:49last three games Miami has lost two twice.

00:55And so for us, in evaluating their body of work, we felt that Alabama got the edge over

01:02Miami.

01:03Well the body of work is complete for Alabama, for Miami, for Ole Miss, for South Carolina.

01:08There's one more ranking to do.

01:10Well where's Reese?

01:11What could change?

01:12Could it change?

01:13Is it set?

01:14Yes, it could change.

01:17It all depends on the outcome of these games.

01:19Oh, he's so full of his jack, this guy.

01:22I mean, whatever.

01:24I'm done.

01:25I'm done with it.

01:26I don't even want to talk about it anymore.

01:28I'm going to have a stroke.

01:34It can make you very upset, especially if one of your teams is involved, and even if

01:37it's not one of your teams.

01:38Of all things, this year it came down to my team is taking it in the arse.

01:44At the end of the day, Cam Ward was a Heisman finalist.

01:48The Miami offense is awesome.

01:51Alabama can lose by 21 at Oklahoma, but they don't even evaluate that at all.

01:55It's like a bad day that didn't count.

01:57It's like saying yesterday didn't happen.

02:00Monday and Tuesday didn't count because Wednesday was so beautiful.

02:04It's just the most ridiculous reasoning I've ever listened to.

02:08And then at the end of the day, the five-time national champs get just shafted because they

02:14lost by five and lost by four to really good teams and really good quarterbacks.

02:18I evaluate things based on losses, not on wins.

02:23Not on wins.

02:24Like I even said, they barely beat Cal, they came back from 35 down, so they don't deserve

02:29anything.

02:30I told you they didn't deserve to be in the playoff.

02:31It's not that, it's who they put in instead.

02:35They put in everyone's favorite puppy, the cute little adorable Alabama Crimson Tide,

02:40no matter what.

02:41Honest to Christ, they could effing lose seven games and they would still be in this goddamn

02:46playoff.

02:47And you know it.

02:48They would still be in the playoff if they lost seven games.

02:51They'd find a way to get them in.

02:53They'd find a way.

02:55It's unbelievable.

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