Tim Brando must be an idiot. Sometimes I can't tell if people are just doing a bit or if they really are totally ignorant.
Alabama has absolutely curb stomped everyone they've played except the team that most consider the best in the country. Winning margins averaging 33 points. Minnesota meanwhile has a 7-point win over South Dakota State, a-3 point win over Fresno State, a 3-point win over Georgia Southern, and a 7-point win over Purdue. Baylor has a 8-point win over Rice, needed a miracle to beat Texas Tech, beat West Virginia at home by 3, and need triple overtime to beat TCU. Neither team would be undefeated had they played LSU and there isn't one sane person in the country, Tim Brando included, that would take either of those teams and probably about 14 points if they played Alabama. So spare me the outrage Tim Brando. If I'm on the committee and I rank either Baylor or Minnesota above Alabama based on what they've done thus far in the season I'm pretty much feeling like a total dumbass.
And I always hear about all the Alabama privilege from all these idiot pundits. Is it privilege? Or is it the fact they are 69-4 in the regular season in the CFP era, have probably only played a few more than a handful of competitive games, and haven't lost to an unranked team in I think more than a decade? I can tell you, if Minnesota or Baylor start beating the [ Finebaum ] out of everyone they play and go on a 69-4 run, they'll get theirs. And even this year, all they have to do is keep winning and they'll be fine and will pass Alabama. Probably can't lose, but that's what you get for barely getting by in so many games against crap teams. At some point the eye test does need to come into play, unless we just want to penalize a team for being too good for too long and put another team in there just because everyone is sick of Alabama.
If there's one thing I criticize the committee for, it's for putting Georgia ahead of Alabama. That was stupid, but probably done to appease all the anti-Bama people out there. And it will eventually all work itself out anyway like it always does.