ESPN's Paul Finebaum, Booger McFarland reveal their top 4 teams
The top two teams in the country — Alabama and Miami — both lost this weekend, so now the College Football Playoff rankings will likely be thrown into turmoil once again.
Who will be in the new top four when the updated rankings are revealed on Tuesday night? No one knows, probably not even the committee at this point.
On Sunday morning’s SportsCenter, Paul Finebaum and Booger McFarland tried their best to come up with their top four teams, but it isn’t easy making sense of the mess at the top of the rankings.
Finebaum’s top-four list featured two SEC teams and looked like this:
- No. 1 — Auburn
- No. 2 — Oklahoma
- No. 3 — Clemson
- No. 4 — Alabama
Meanwhile, McFarland could only come up with a top-three, admitting he has no idea who should be No. 4 right now:
- No. 1 — Clemson
- No. 2 — Oklahoma
- No. 3 — Auburn
- No. 4 — ???
Wisconsin, Georgia or Alabama would have been good candidates for Booger’s final spot, but he decided instead to leave the spot blank.
The CFP committee doesn’t have that option, though, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens on Tuesday night.
Fbaum is still riding the Ala wagon. Really Fbaum give it up. Can he even support another team, other than Ala. doubt it.
I agree, Finebaum is an ESPN puppet. Has he ever had any real football knowledge? The Finebaum show is the most dysfunctional sports show on the air.
That said, Bama should be at 5 or 6, not 4. Auburn deserves to be in the top 4, but not #1. Especially when Clemson is still in the conversation. The spin cycle starts next Saturday, I’ll wait to see what comes out of the wash machine.
I think some of his callers are funny. But Fbaum knows nothing outside of parroting the same old tired stuff over and over. He is soooo boring. How he gets coaches in warmer water because he obviously has a pulpit is wrong. Especially when he is so biased one way. Couldn’t care less for Fbaum or what he has to say. And the people out there that believe he is a good representative of the conference are sadly mistaken.
That is weak on Booger’s part, and pure homer on the part of Paul. Wisconsin will be 4th. That leaves Bama fans in the position of Ohio State cheerleaders next week.
The CFB committee is proving to be a joke. The playoff should be expanded to 8 teams, or at least 6 teams, with each conference champion included. The sooner they remove the eye test from the formula, the better. The eye test has failed.
Bayou Tiger, You are so right. Take conference champions, and make it 6 team playoff. The committee thing is fixed. It is about money and crowd draw and ESPN influencing the outcome so that the BIG 10, I mean the BIG 3 or 4 can be a participant in the playoff every year. As for Finebaum, he is just an ESPN Lapdog, doing what he is told.
Didn’t Clemson defeat Auburn this year? With all due respect, it’s very difficult to treat Finebaum with an ounce of credibility if he’s going to rank a two loss team over a one loss team who had already beaten them.
It’s also very difficult to go undefeated during the regular season (just ask Miami and Alabama). So for neither of these guys to rank Wisconsin at #4 is just befuddling to me.
Agree 1000%. Even as an AU fan, I think that if we get in at all it should probably be in the 4 spot. Some great wins down the stretch but 2 losses still counts as a big strike.
Definitely agree. All the more so when you consider Clemson has 4 road wins against ranked opponents (Louisville, Virginia Tech, NC State, and South Carolina), while Auburn has zero such victories. Even if they hadn’t defeated Auburn, they should ranked higher, the head to head game is the cherry on top.
Lol Paul Finebaum. Auburn #1 with two losses? That man is either a blatant troll or has a very low IQ. I’m honestly not sure which.
Question, who is the idiot that came up with the National Championship Trophy design? He should be fired along with the guy who hired him. Was the Crystal Football not affordable anymore?
The new trophy looks like a traffic cone turned upside down,with the bottom in the shape of a football.
Wow, so a 2 loss team that is playing great (but still has not defeated anyone of note away from home) is ahead of a 1 loss team, who is the defending national champion, who defeated said 2 loss team, at least according to Paul Finebaum? Wow. Especially considering the 1 loss team has 4 road wins against ranked opponents, including a 24 point rout yesterday. While the 2 loss team has zero such road wins.
But remember, he isn’t biased.