The big college football news today is who did and who didn’t make the college football playoffs for this 2025 season. Most people were curious about which teams would take up the bottom few spots. Chatter about Miami, Notre Dame, BYU, and Alabama. Two of those four teams lost this weekend, the other two were idle. Can you guess which of those teams for sure made it in even though they had a bad loss to make their overall record 10-3? Alabama. Is anyone surprised?
It’s so predictable. It’s not about the actual sport. If it were, Alabama’s spot would have been taken by a team like Texas, Vanderbilt, or Notre Dame. Teams that deserved it. But Alabama is a valuable double-sided coin. You see, Texas has money. Notre Dame has haters.
Alabama has both.
And this matters because every good story needs a villain, right? In college football, that’s Alabama. The best action movies, every plot in WWE Wrestling, and why you’re Thanksgiving dinner was fun, is because of the antagonist; The person, character, or in football’s case, the team, that gets people riled up. Including an undeserving Alabama in the playoffs is a win for the overall health of college football. Now the money is secured, fans of Alabama will watch the playoffs to see the Tide win, and people who hate Alabama will watch to see them lose.
Do they deserve to be in the playoffs? No. Was there ever a chance they wouldn’t make it? No.
-Out of the Wilderness
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