Nick Saban wants the College Football Playoff committee to put a bigger emphasis on strength of schedule.
Saban and the Crimson Tide are 7-1 ahead of the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season. The Tide are off this week, so they will not play another game before the first rankings are revealed. They are predicted to be in a position to make a run for a playoff spot.
The Tide failed to make the playoff last season after losing to LSU and Tennessee.
The Alabama head coach talked about the committee’s desire to put the best teams in on the Pat McAfee Show.
“I felt like last year, and I’ve said this publicly before,” Saban said. “We were probably one of the best four teams in the country, but because we lost two games on the last play of the game, we never got into playoffs. I think they should put more emphasis on strength of schedule, who you play, how many top 20 teams you played and beat, whatever it might be, so that you get the best teams in the game, which I’m not sure there’s so much public sentiment for making sure that you win your conference championship or whatever I think when we go to 12 teams, you definitely get all the best teams in, but right now, it can be a little bit hit or miss, but I don’t really care much about the rankings right now because they really don’t matter unless you win the next game. They really don’t matter unless you win the next game after that. So, you gotta stay focused on sort of the here and now, which we’ve talked about before in terms of trying to do everything you can do on the front end to make sure your team is playing the best in the next game and try to develop some kind of consistency in performance where you have a chance to end up where you need to end up, so you have a chance to get in the playoffs when the time comes at the end of the season.”
The first playoff rankings will be revealed Tuesday on ESPN.
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