Alabama is one of several teams still in consideration to make the College Football Playoff now that the regular season is over. ESPN college football analyst Paul Finebaum believes the Crimson Tide should be in the CFP when the bracket is revealed on Sunday.
According to Finebaum, Alabama should make the College Football Playoff for several reasons, with one of those being its brand.
If I’m giving this committee credit and belief, which I’ll decide next Sunday whether I do or not – so far I’m all over the map. I think they’ll look at Alabama, and will the brand matter? Probably,” Paul Finebaum said Monday on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning. “It should. It should in the mindset, because Alabama has the most influential brand in college football.
Paul Finebaum wasn’t sold on Alabama as a College Football Playoff team as recently as this weekend. But after taking a few days to consider the options, he believes the Crimson Tide should get in, he told Greg McElroy.
“Saturday when we were together, I didn’t completely agree, but I heard your rationale and after watching all of these games, I think the wins have to matter,” Finebaum said. “Yea, I mean everyone listening can throw up the losses, and that’s pretty self explanatory.
But I think everybody has losses, but not that many have great wins. Alabama now has two extremely good wins. How much you want to factor in Missouri is open to interpretation, but no one can deny the top two. There’s no team on the bubble with those type of a wins.”
Alabama has wins over Georgia and South Carolina, which Finebaum believes will end up being the difference, unless the committee ends up going with no fourth SEC team.
The one thing that concerns me though is that this committee will take a weasley way out, and they’ll go ‘Everyone has an argument in the SEC… and the best thing to do is to leave all three out,’” Finebaum said.
