If you think FSU could have beaten Alabama on Saturday, I don't know what to tell you, there's no cure.
It's either the 4 best teams or it isn't.
The real travesty is pretending the Pac-12 deserved two teams in the top 5 and 4 ranked teams. Not a single ranked win among the 12 teams. Did any ranked team have a worse loss than #14 Arizona? But they did beat Utah, who everybody pretended was good.
Oregon will of course win because they paired them with Liberty, but Washington is getting boat raced.
Two years in a row of overrated Pac-12 teams based on nothing. 4 teams in the top 20 last year without a single win over any teams rated higher than #20 from another conference. 3-4 in bowls despite every single team playing a lower ranked opponent...an improvement of course on going 0-8 combined over the previous two years...but yeah let's rank 4 of them in the top 20 to start the year because...results?
Good thing the conference will cease to exist, otherwise they'd have 5 teams ranked in the pre-season again next year.
I will pretend to be shocked when Texas is playing Alabama for the title.