Rece Davis and the ESPN crew will lead off the discussion on ESPN game day with Alabama will be eliminated from playoff contention if they lose at Texas today on the road. This is still a hypothetical that I allowed you to tweak. “Yes since they lost last week, and the momentum clause must be met, they are playing for their lives today.”

So that is not real and just really dumb. And I don’t believe you believe that, but you feel trapped.

In answer to your question, we didn’t play a great against KU and that hurt is a lot. We should have won and lost a heart breaker. I would argue our loss at ASU was one of the better games we played this season considering it was on the road, in a hostile environment and lost by 4 or 5. Asu was smoking hot coming into that game. They are a FG away from being in the semi finals.

I think you have to look at the full season as a whole to evaluate any team. We are in the mix for being in that group of 12 with the teams that got in and Miami, bama, etc. it’s going to be tough and I think they will always be some tough teams left in the outside. It’s going to be close and I get why we got left out.