People are crashing out over Alabama football likely making the CFB Playoff

Alabama football was, as expected, ranked No. 11 by the College Football Playoff Committee on Tuesday night, which currently puts the Crimson Tide as the last team in the playoff field. Predictably, fans, media members, and even athletic directors with massive Alabama fatigue crashed out on social media in the aftermath of the rankings.

Alabama fatigue has made everyone, even ostensibly smart people, set aside all logic and reasoning to put forth baseless and nonsensical arguments out of pure hatred for a singular team. But remember, this expanded playoff is what you wanted. If we were still in the four-team era or if we just expanded to eight, the Tide would be nowhere near the playoff.

Instead, the solution is going to be to expand further. To 14 or even 16 teams. Because that's always the solution when Alabama is the team in a playoff field.

Alabama making the BCS National Championship Game in 2011 over Oklahoma State directly led to the College Football Playoff. The Tide getting the No. 4 seed in 2017 is what led to talks of expanding the playoff beyond four teams.

People are sick of Alabama. They took to social media to scream into the void about it:

Hey Brad, just an FYI, South Carolina lost to Alabama. That happened. Hope this helps.

This point is probably correct. It's good to be a have and not a have not.

First of all, computers cannot give "benefit of the doubt." They do not have free will to do so. They only follow the numbers. The numbers said in 2011 Alabama was one of the two best teams. Alabama then proved it was THE best team by smacking LSU 21-0 in New Orleans.

The humans gave Alabama the benefit of the doubt in 2017. Alabama proceeded to beat No. 1 Clemson and No. 3 Georgia to win the national championship.

Last year Alabama was given the benefit of the doubt by the humans, too, over an undefeated Florida State. The Seminoles responded by quitting and getting destroyed by Georgia, a loss that carried over to a 2-10 season this year. And while Alabama didn't ultimately win the whole thing, they went to overtime in the semifinals with the eventual national champion Michigan Wolverines.

This whole column by David Hale is rough. Alabama has a better SOR - a metric used by the site hat pays his bills - than all of the other teams. It played a tougher schedule than Ole Miss and Miami while playing almost the same schedule as South Carolina, but beating the Gamecocks head to head. The Tide also has more ranked wins than the others.

These are not dumb people. They are just blinded by their hate of Alabama and it's blinding their judgment.

Probably because they beat South Carolina head-to-head and have played a more difficult schedule than Ole Miss? Also, all of Alabama's losses were on the road, albeit against two six-loss teams. But that's better than letting an 8-loss team beat you on your home field like Ole Miss did.

Coincidentally, "Why do we even play the games?" was probably the strongest point in Alabama's favor against a red-hot South Carolina team. We were told last season that head-to-head is a key data point, no matter when the game took place. Nobody would even entertain Alabama jumping Texas last season after a Week 2 loss to the Longhorns despite the same record and a better overall resume.

The committee uses the same logic this season and suddenly it is Alabama bias.

This is Miami's Athletic Director. He at least has a reason to be blatantly biased, unlike journalists who are paid to be impartial. But also, Miami didn't beat a team ranked in the top 25 all season. Comparing the ACC to the SEC or Big Ten is like comparing the CFL to the NFL.

The Hurricanes also should have probably lost two extra games. They got the benefit of questionable officiating in wins over Virginia Tech and Cal that, if reversed, would have Miami at 8-4 and outside the Top 25 themselves.

There's no guarantee at this point that Alabama is in the playoff. A close Clemson win over SMU might knock the Tide out of the field. But one thing is for certain: if Alabama does indeed make the field officially in Sunday's final rankings, the meltdown around the country will continue to be glorious.