Nick Saban criticizes the CFP system

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Alabama football did not make the college football playoffs last season. The Crimson Tide lost two games to late starts, eliminating them from the four-team tournament.

Coach Nick Saban has won three CFP championships since his introduction in 2014. He said he thinks Alabama should have made the four-team playoffs last season.

Via On3’s Nick Kosko:

So all we do is take the teams that win the most games at the end of the year, put them in the playoffs, Saban said. But do you really have the best teams? When they told me we would be favored against three of the four teams that made the playoffs, I thought, why aren’t we in the playoffs?

Alabama football lost a game against then no. 6 Tennessee on a winning field goal. They also lost to then-No. 10 LSU on a go-ahead from quarterback Jayden Daniels.

If any of those results had been reversed, the Crimson Tide could have been eligible for the tournament. He generally picked the teams with the best records at the end of the year in a major conference, no matter how difficult their schedule.

But I’m not criticizing anyone, Saban said. But if you want to have parity, you need to have a better way of determining who has the better teams, not just because you lose two games in the last game of the match.

It knocks you out when you’re maybe better than someone else who didn’t have the same circumstances they played in.

Saban and Alabama football will attempt to return to the national championship tournament this season.

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