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December 7, 2024
Early Saturday morning, a private group communiqué from the College Football Playoff Selection Committee to the Alabama Crimson Tide was made public due to an apparent email hack.
“My Dearest Crimson Tide,” the letter opened, “You are everything we could ever want in a CFP contender.”
“You’ve been going through some tough times recently, we get that: there was the surprise at Vanderbilt, whatever happened at Tennessee, and that disaster in Norman, Oklahoma most recently. Things haven’t exactly gone to plan this season.”
“Still, we just can’t quit you,” the letter went on, “and the thought of going through an entire playoff cycle—an expanded one, no less!—without hearing that Ryan Williams is only 17 years old at least fifty times (will he be 18 by then?) is just too much to bear.”
“At the end of the day, we’ve been through a lot together. It was never about Nick, it was alway YOU!!! From Tua relieving Hurts to Devonta Smith’s dismantling of Ohio State…even those tough losses to Clemson. It just wouldn’t be a CFP without you. (We would have put you higher, probably closer to where SMU is at, but we didn’t want anyone to get suspicious, hopefully you’re okay with that.)”
“You could have a hundred losses,” the group note—apparently compiled in Canva—concluded, “and you would still win our hearts.”
