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VTHokie2000

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Your statement


"You can't be the best team in the nation if you're not even the best team in your conference" assumes that all conferences are equal. Are all conferences equal?

Alabama may have been the third "best" (which is also subjective as Pylons points out) in the SEC. However, I think everyone would agree that Alabama would have been "conference champion" for any G5 conference. It is debatable whether Alabama would have been "conference champion" of any of the other power conferences. If Alabama were to beat both Clemson and Oklahoma in the Playoffs, then is that strong enough for someone to make the claim that Alabama would have been the ACC Champion or Big XII Champion this year (if Alabama was a member of either conference)? Perceptually I could see how someone could reach that conclusion.

(In response to this post by crabcake77)

Posted: 12/07/2017 at 12:39PM



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