If you believe in providing a voice to the voiceless, in afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted, in fighting the good fight against powerful forces of the establishment, you have clicked on the wrong column.
My colleague Pat Forde has you covered. He believes Florida State deserved a College Football Playoff bid, and I really want to believe that, too, but the more I examined the debate, the clearer the answer became. And so I come in defense of Alabama, which feels a bit like arguing that the bully needed the other kids’ lunch money more than they did. Alabama should not need defending. Yet here we are.
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