Which is why I agree that an unbeaten team should always be given the benefit of the doubt over a team with a loss EXCEPT in the case where you can LOOK point blank at Strength of schedule and say, "no, this team with one loss is definitely better than team with no losses."
The thing is, I don't disagree with you necessarily. I disagree with your argument. The fact is there's no reason for Alabama to be ranked as highly as they are besides bias. I just wish you didn't have to come across so harshly to get to that point. SoS does matter, but not if you're one of the "chosen" schools. tOSU, Alabama, ND, Texas, etc. But when a team like Texas is playing poorly, they are treated accordingly. ND and Alabama are absolutely being shown bias.
Look at Memphis vs Alabama: Their victories are against teams that have won 2 games, 4 games, 7 games (Ole Miss, who is a great victory and a ranked opponent), 4 games, 5 games, 6 games, 0 games, and 1 game.
Alabama has beat teams that have won: 7 games (Wisconsin, ranked opponent), 3 games, Lost to the one opponent they have in common with Memphis (7 wins Ole Miss), 1 win, 5 games (at the time ranked Georgia), 4 wins, 6 wins (Ranked opponent T A&M) and 4 wins.
To me, that makes Memphis a MUCH better team than Alabama and honestly continues to prove my point that Alabama is absolutely over ranked.
But when you want to head to head compare Alabama to Temple, to be honest, Temple looks a LOT worse than Alabama. Temple has beat a team with 7 wins (Penn state, whose other loss is to #2 OSU), 5 wins, 1 win, 2 wins, 0 wins, 4 wins, and then lost to Notre Dame. I'm sorry, but that doesn't scream top ten team to me.
That's just my two cents. And that's JUST based on opponent. Then you get into style points, injuries, margin of victory, strength of schedule of the wins of the opponent, etc. All of the things that the committee is supposedly looking at during the week, and it's a LOT for me to look at right now at work. But suffice it to say, Temple is probably just about as well ranked as they should be, most things considered. And tbh, I believe that the committee DOES look at these things very thoroughly, considering how often I've listened to them TALK about all of these things. They usually make very convincing arguments, but again, I DO believe in bias as well, and I DO believe they're over ranking Notre Dame and Alabama. I just DON'T believe they're underranking Temple, and to get back to your original point, no I don't think that the ND victory over Temple is impressive enough to catapult them over teams with no losses.