Nick Saban rips into CFP rankings: ‘None of this really matters’
By Jacob Moss
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The College Football Playoff Selection Committee has been a major talking point across the college football world over the past couple of weeks due to some of the questionable decisions in their first 2 top-25 rankings of the season.
Many fans and analysts from across the country have voiced their displeasure with several of the committee’s choices, but former Alabama head coach Nick Saban isn’t getting caught up in the debates over which teams deserve to be where.
The seven-time national champion shared his thoughts on the matter during Saturday morning’s edition of College GameDay, taking aim at the ongoing debates surrounding the CFP rankings and declaring that “none of this really matters.”
“None of this really matters,” Saban said. “This was about the time of the year, we’re starting the fourth quarter of the season, this is about the time of the year that I would give my speech about ‘don’t listen to what anybody on ESPN says we’re going to do, beacuase it’s all about how you finish the season.’ All of these teams have an opportunity… If they can play with consistency and sustain a level of intensity. To play their best football at this time of the year, in the fourth quarter of the season, they will have a chance to get into the playoffs.”
Saban’s sentiments aren’t likely to qwell the ongoing debates regarding the CFP selection committee’s decisions, but he raises a very good point nonetheless. If the nation’s top squads can do has the greatest coach of all time suggests and maintain a high level of play in the last part of the regular season, then chances are they will make it into the final field come selection Sunday.
