ESPN has determined that Indiana is loaded with playmakers and the Alabama Crimson Tide is not.
Don't shoot the messenger! The source for deriding the Alabama Crimson Tide is ESPN. More precisely, it is David Hale, Adam Rittenberg, Bill Connelly, and Max Olsen.
Before the playoffs began, the quartet provided a list of the top 50 players among the 12 playoff teams. Credit them for candor about their rankings: "The criteria for our list is much like the process used by the College Football Playoff committee, insofar as we mostly made it up as we went.