Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban was quick to react and provide his initial thoughts on the College Football Playoff committee’s decision to place SMU in over Alabama.
“If we don’t take strength of schedule into consideration, is there any benefit to scheduling really good teams in the future. Here at Alabama, we’re supposed to play Notre Dame, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Florida State in the future outside the league,” Saban said, “Those are great games for fans to see, and that’s what I think we should be doing in college football is creating more good inventory for great games that people are interested in, but do you enhance people wanting to do that — what’s the athletic director going to do?