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Alabama AD Greg Byrne gets savage community note on tweet calling out College Football Playoff committee

Chandler Vesselsby:Chandler Vessels•12/08/24•

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Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne took to X, formerly Twitter, after the College Football Playoff committee’s decision to leave the Crimson Tide out Sunday. SMU got the No. 11 seed and final at-large bid instead of Alabama after the Mustangs lost 34-31 to Clemson in the ACC Championship on Saturday.

Byrne argued that the Crimson Tide played “an extremely challenging schedule” and deserved to be in. He also said that Alabama would need to “assess how many P4 non-conference games make sense in the future” as a result of the outcome.

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“Disappointed with the outcome and felt we were one of the 12 best teams in the country,” Byrne wrote in the post. “We had an extremely challenging schedule and recognize there were two games in particular that we did not perform as well as we should have.

“We have said that we would need to see how strength of schedule would be evaluated by the CFP. With this outcome, we will need to asses how many P4 non-conference games make sense in the future to put us in the best position to participate in the CFP. That is not good for college football.”

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Byrne probably wasn’t prepared for the response from the social media platform, however, which hit him with a community note pulling up the facts about his conference schedule. The note called attention to the fact that all of Alabama’s losses came in conference play and made mention of the fact its nonconference slate consisted of Western Kentucky, USF, Wisconsin and Mercer.

By comparison, SMU faced Nevada, Houston Christian, BYU and TCU in its nonconference. The Mustangs also had more quality losses than the Crimson Tide as they both came against ranked opponents.

Alabama played the 18th toughest schedule in the country compared to 57th for SMU according to ESPN. That likely was a result of their respective conference schedules, however, rather than their nonconference opponents which are fairly similar with a slight lean to the Mustangs in terms of difficulty.

The point from Byrne still holds some weigh considering that SEC teams have a much more challenging conference schedule and have to weigh that when deciding who to play outside the league. This will mark only the third time that Alabama has missed the College Football Playoff since its inception in 2014.