FOX Sports college football and basketball host and analyst Tim Brando turned heads when he went on the Paul Finebaum show earlier this week, saying Alabama is “privileged.”

Obviously, those comments didn’t sit too well with Alabama fans, but Brando joined WNSP-105.5 FM in Mobile Friday morning to explain his reasoning.

Brando isn’t a huge fan of the College Football Playoff, and he already thinks three blue blood programs are a lock to make it. He mentioned he’d like to see more diversity among the Playoff committee members, too, and he’d like to see the Playoff expand to eight teams.

“I submit to you right now that Alabama, Ohio State and Clemson are almost automatic for this year,” Brando said. “So that leaves only one other spot. Where you going to get it? It could be another team from the SEC, particularly as weak as these conference schedules or non-conference schedules are in the Southeastern Conference.”

Brando went on to explain what he meant by calling Alabama “privileged” during his Finebaum appearance, and he added that the Tide aren’t the only privileged team in the country.

“If you have a body of work over a long time, and a tremendous history, you’re considered one of the blue bloods of the game, you’re not going to fall as precipitously as others when you lose a game,” Brando said Friday morning. “Check the numbers on, how many spots did Alabama fall? I will guarantee you won’t find them falling more than four spots in any given situation when they’ve lost a game, whether it was the two losses to Ole Miss they’ve had in recent years or the loss to Auburn (in 2017). The committee knew that by having them in the fifth position, that somebody had to lose the Georgia-Auburn game in the SEC Championship; so, Alabama was poised to be right in that spot.

“Other teams when they are undefeated and lose a game, they drop seven, eight, five spots, sometimes even out of the Top 10 altogether. That’s what I mean by ‘privileged,’ and by the way, they’re not the only privileged team. Ohio State’s another one; I believe Clemson’s another one. Clemson lost to Syracuse, for God’s sake. They were a bad team, and (Clemson) still got in. So, it’s not just Alabama.”

Although Brando said Alabama shouldn’t have been ranked as high following the loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl, we’re not exactly sure which team would be ranked higher. Georgia? Miami? Those two were the only one-loss teams aside from Alabama. Georgia was hammered by Auburn, and Miami lost to Pitt.