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   Message 209,273 of 209,580   
   JE Corbett to JGibson   
   Re: But...but...didn't Alabama just beat   
   11 Jan 24 08:18:44   
   
   From: jecorbett4@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 5:30:30 PM UTC-5, JGibson wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 5:10:17 PM UTC-5, JE Corbett wrote:    
   > > On Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 2:28:33 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:    
   > > > Strange that, after Alabama lost in OT to the eventual national   
   champion, not only did both the coaches' and sportswriters' polls put Texas   
   ahead of Alabama, but they both put Georgia ahead of Alabama as well.    
   > > It is inevitable that by the end of the college football season, there are   
   going to be teams ranked ahead of teams that beat    
   > > them. There was only on team that went undefeated and they are on top.   
   Everybody else got beat by somebody else but    
   > > there is no way to rank teams without a team being ranked behind a team   
   they beat. Should Oklahoma be ranked ahead of    
   > > Texas because they beat they?   
   > But in this case, the logic of the AP poll makes little sense. Alabama was   
   ranked ahead of Georgia in the last poll. Alabama's only loss since that poll   
   was to the #1 team in overtime.   
      
   Alabama is a two loss team. Georgia lost once. It doesn't matter how close   
   either team's losses were. Alabama was the better   
   team in the SEC championship. Georgia was the better team over the course of   
   the entire season. They should have been    
   ranked ahead of Alabama.   
      
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