Alright, so Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany didn't come right out and say Alabama football didn't deserve to be in the BCS National Championship game last year, but he did say that you shouldn't be in that conversation if you didn't win your conference. Or even your conference division.
Alabama did neither last year, but they did play another SEC team, LSU, for the national title. And they were the best team in college football.
"I don't have a lot of regard for that team," Delany said of any team that doesn't win its own conference. "I certainly wouldn't have as much regard for that team as I would for someone who played nine conference games in a tough conference and played a couple out-of-conference games on the road against really good opponents. If a poll doesn't honor those teams and they're conference champions, I do."
In a comment more directly pointed towards Alabama, Delany said: "Some teams don't even win their own division. They started off highly in the rankings, lose early, don't play a championship game and they might end up (in the four-team playoff)."
Jim Delany has been doing a lot of talking lately, and lot of it has been pretty idiotic. He proposed an outrageous college football playoff that would include anywhere from four to six teams, depending on the year, and would possibly have three semi-final games.
In this case, Delany actually has some very good points, but to gear his comments towards singling out Alabama doesn't help his case. What he should have said is that, in order to ease the fears that a college football playoff would diminish the importance of the regular season, more emphasis must be placed on conference championships when determining who makes the playoff.
Instead, this comes off as a little whiny, and little spiteful, and very paranoid that a four team playoff would be consistently seeing two SEC in the mix. Which it probably would.
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