Mario Cristobal picked the worst time to declare SEC bias over as Alabama jumps Miami in CFP rankings

Miami coach Mario Cristobal has never been great at clock management, and that popped up in a very unexpected way on Tuesday.

Ahead of the College Football Playoff selection committee putting Alabama ahead of Miami in its latest rankings, Cristobal hyped about his team and the ACC’s chances to stack up against the rest of the SEC on the ACC Network.

“I think that [SEC] bias is coming to an end,” Cristobal said during an interview about the rising ACC compared to the SEC as to how they’ll be ranked… right before the selection committee put Alabama in the bracket and named Miami the first team left out.

This is just brutal timing for Cristobal after a three-loss SEC team basically took his two-loss ACC team’s spot in the playoff at the committee’s discretion.

With Miami out of the ACC title game, it’s downright impossible for the Hurricanes to contend for a national title once Sunday’s final bracket comes out. We’ll see what happens, but the SEC bias is holding for now.

“I think that [SEC] bias is coming to an end.”

Mario Cristobal talks about how Miami’s résumé stacks to others in the CFP rankings pic.twitter.com/oAdp0LfbNw

— ACC Network (@accnetwork) December 3, 2024