It’s safe to say the first year of Alabama football without head coach Nick Saban will end in disappointment. Over the weekend, the then-7th ranked Alabama Crismon Tide visited the Oklahoma Sooners as more than a two-touchdown favorite. Losers four of their last five games, Oklahoma dominated Alabama for four quarters, emerging victorious 24-3. The Sooners ran wild on the Crimson Tide, with opposing quarterback Jackson Arnold rushing 25 times for 131 yards. Despite forgoing his redshirt freshman season, first-year college player Xavier Robinson rushed for 107 yards and two touchdowns.
Conversely, once Heisman Trophy hopeful Jalen Milroe went 11-of-26 for 164 yards and three picks, arguably his worst showing during his tenure as the starting quarterback for the Alabama football program. With the shocking defeat, Alabama moves to 8-3, marking their most losses in a season since 2010. Although Saturday’s loss looked to be the dagger in Alabama’s postseason hopes, many SEC talking heads believe a three-loss SEC team could still make the College Football Playoff, a travesty of a future reality.
Alabama Football Should Miss CFP
According to College Football Report on Twitter:
The fact that there’s a conversation about Alabama having a chance at the playoffs still is disgusting. They’re 8-3, with a blowout loss to 6-5 Oklahoma and a loss to 6-5 Vanderbilt. If this was anyone not named “Alabama,” you wouldn’t hear a PEEP about playoffs.
Despite last Saturday’s emotional loss against the Oklahoma Sooners, many on Twitter who debate the College Football Playoff believe the Alabama football program still has an outside chance at the 12-team CFP field. Among three-loss teams and the entirety of the college football field, the Alabama Crimson Tide likely house one of the best squads in the country. However, with sports at its core being results-based, an 8-3 Alabama unit should not leapfrog a 10-1 Indiana Hoosiers team because the former “would win more” with the latter’s schedule.
Last weekend, Alabama lost to an Oklahoma team that has yet to sniff the College Football Playoff this season. Meanwhile, they failed to score a touchdown in the loss, while Oklahoma surrendered 30+ points to Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas earlier this year. The Crimson Tide also fell to Vanderbilt earlier this season, their first loss against the Commodores since 1984.
As for the other three-loss teams in the most recent rendition of the AP Poll (Ole Miss, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Illinois, Colorado, and Missouri), none should make the College Football Playoff, barring unprecedented collapses from the teams ahead of them. Even then, the Georgia Bulldogs have the only realistic case, with a win on Saturday against Georgia Tech and a tight loss in the SEC title against top-ranked Texas. Nevertheless, pushing a three-loss team into the CFP over a one-loss team based on “what-ifs” would and should set back the sport for decades.
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