Miami AD Dan Radakovich takes shot at Alabama following College Football Playoff rankings reveal
Miami AD Dan Radakovich took to social media to react to Tuesday’s penultimate College Football Playoff rankings. He disagreed with the committee’s decision to rank Alabama ahead of the Hurricanes and pointed out the difference in their final three games.
Miami went 1-2 in its final three games, falling to Georgia Tech and Syracuse with a victory over Wake Forest in between. Alabama went 2-1, defeating Auburn and Mercer while falling to Oklahoma on the road.
Radakovich also pointed out the margin of Miami’s games compared to Alabama. The Crimson Tide fell to Oklahoma 24-3 while Hurricanes lost both their games by a combined nine points.
“Really??” Radakovich wrote on X. “….what put Bama over the top of Miami for the last spot in is that Miami went 1-2 in their last 3 games (by an average of 4.5 pts, to a ranked Syracuse and GT team that just took UGA to 8OT). Bama went 2-1 (to 5-7 Auburn, destroyed by OU, and beat FCS Mercer).”
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College Football Playoff committee chairman Warde Manuel addressed the difference between Alabama and Miami during the rankings process. He pointed to the Crimson Tide’s record against teams in the Top 25 after penultimate rankings reveal compared to the Hurricanes, as well as how they both fared against programs over .500.
“What it came down to is as we evaluated both teams and looked at how they rank, obviously we think highly of both teams,” Manuel said on the ESPN reveal show. “One’s at 11, one’s at 12. But what it really came down to is Alabama is 3-1 against current top 25 teams and Miami is 0-1. Alabama is 6-1 against teams above .500 and Miami’s 4-2. Both have had some losses that weren’t what they wanted out of those games. But in the last three games, Miami has lost twice.”
Neither team made their respective conference championship, which means the committee doesn’t have a reason to move them from their current spots. However, if some surprising results come along during Championship Week, the bubble could get interesting.