Crimson Fried

 So now it's 2025, and already the best of the bowl games are behind us. This is because they've already played the ReliaQuest Bowl (and, no, I don't know what a ReliaQuest is, so don't even ask), and something fairly wondrous happened.

What happened was, Alabama lost for the fourth and last time this season.

To Michigan.

Which lost to Indiana.

Whom all the wise guys and SEC carnival barkers -- lookin' at you, ESPN -- were saying had NO BUSINESS being in the College Football Playoff, and that it was an ABSOLUTE TRAVESTY the pud-ly Hoosiers were there instead of, say, a mighty behemoth like Alabama, which would have blown the pud-lies off the face of the world had they played.

"Alabama would have beaten both Indiana and Notre Dame by 14 points," one such person bellowed on the Magic Twitter Thingy, after Notre Dame knocked out Indiana in the first round.

Say a prayer for that poor deluded soul, America. And for all the other poor souls who spent a couple of weeks saying something similar.

If this weren't 2025 in America, when people not only say stupid stuff but double down on it, they'd be feeling a bit embarrassed today having talked up Alabama as a legitimate CFP team. Good call there, boys and girls. The Crimson Fried couldn't even beat a depleted 7-5 Big Ten team -- Michigan was missing half its defensive line -- in a minor bowl, but, sure, they deserved to be in the CFP and Indiana didn't.

Had the Blob not promised to be a kinder, gentler Blob in 2025, it would be laughing hysterically right now.

Ah, shoot. There goes that New Year's resolution.