{"id":431512,"date":"2025-12-07T18:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431512\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:23:14","slug":"nick-saban-ai-would-have-one-hell-of-a-time-figuring-out-controversial-2025-cfp-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431512\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Saban: AI would have ‘one hell of a time’ figuring out controversial 2025 CFP bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of another controversial and chaotic Selection Sunday, when the 12-member College Football Playoff selection committee determines 2025\u2019s 12-team Playoff bracket, Nick Saban<\/a><\/strong> believes even articifical intelligence would struggle to come up with an equitable field.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of issues. Right now, if we had AI and they had all the information, they\u2019d have one Hell of a time trying to figure out what this committee has to figure in terms of these last three or four teams,\u201d Saban deadpanned at the conclusion of his pre-reveal hit on ESPN\u2019s College Football Playoff Selection Show shortly after Noon ET Sunday.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s most controversial Playoff debate centers around how SEC runner-up and No. 9-ranked Alabama<\/a><\/strong> (10-3) fits into the 12-team field when compared to two-loss Notre Dame<\/a><\/strong> (10-2) and Miami<\/a><\/strong> (10-2), which were ranked No. 10 and 12 in last week\u2019s penultimate Top 25 rankings. Does a three-touchdown loss (28-7) to No. 3 Georgia<\/a><\/strong> in Saturday\u2019s SEC Championship Game push out the Crimson Tide, which still holds a regular-season head-to-head win over those same Bulldogs in Week 5? And how does the Hurricanes\u2019 Week 1 win (27-24) over the Fightin Irish factor into the discussion if and when the two are compared to one another? Then there\u2019s the question of what to do with ACC Champion Duke<\/a><\/strong> (9-5), which upset previous No. 17 Virginia (10-3) 27-20 in Saturday night\u2019s conference title game in Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Ultimately the 12-member College Football Playoff<\/strong> selection committee ruled the Crimson Tide\u2019s SEC Championship loss wasn\u2019t enough to move them down from their No. 9 spot in the penultimate ranking. Without any change at nine, the committee boosted No. 12 Miami into the 12-team field as the new No. 10-ranked team, pushing out 11th-ranked Notre Dame in favor of top-ranked Group of Five champion Tulane<\/a><\/strong>, which won the American Conference, as the No. 11 seed. Sun Belt champion James Madison<\/a><\/strong> made the Playoff field as the fifth highest-ranked conference champ and No. 12 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of another controversial and chaotic Selection Sunday, when the 12-member College Football Playoff selection committee determines 2025\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":431513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,155385,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-431512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-nick-saban-69-monongah","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}