It's a committee. They have to come to a consensus on what the tiebreaker should be and this is what they decided on.
So he's not an idiot - he's just relaying the message that this was what they ultimately decided was the tiebreaker.
Huck mentioned this but Bama is ahead of all of Miami, Ole Miss, and USCe in the vast majority of computer rankings: https://masseyratings.com/ranks?s=cf
You can certainly find a few that do not - for example, game control is one of their metrics and Ole Miss is ahead of Alabama in that: https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume/sort/resume.gamecontrolrank/dir/asc
I think SMU gets left out if they lose. They have the same problems that Miami does - not enough quality wins.
ND should be lower with that NIU loss but they are still a 1 loss team AND the computers love them. Also #3 in game control.
I could have sworn that he walked this back a bit afterwards. Saying that "the games this weekend will have an impact on the teams that are not playing." Reese flipped his shit when that happened.
Keep in mind that Georgia is kind of the key to all of this - their win over us and their losses to Bama and Ole Miss is doing a LOT of heavy lifting IMHO.
I think there's a chance if we beat UGA that the perception of all of the SEC teams involved will change.