Alabama football learned its College Football Playoff fate Sunday when the committee released the CFP rankings.
The Crimson Tide needed either an SMU win or a Clemson blowout win. Either was fine and would probably get Alabama into the College Football Playoff.That meant the Tigers got an automatic bid as a conference champion for the first 12-team CFP, and SMU found itself needing an at-large bid to still make the playoff.
This seemed like a possibility two weeks ago when the Crimson Tide lost 24-3 to a struggling Oklahoma team on the road. That was Alabama’s third loss of the season, and a bad one at that. But the season didn’t end Tuesday. Conference championship games played out Saturday, and the exact result Alabama needed didn’t happen. SMU, who was ranked ahead of Alabama before the weekend, stayed ranked ahead of the Crimson Tide.
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