Will Alabama Make the 12-Team Playoff Cut This Year?

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00:00One thing has not changed though, Mike, whether it be four teams are now going to 12, we're

00:10going to have a lot of conversations over the next two weeks about whether Alabama is

00:16going to get it or not, because this has happened a lot with four and they're the three, you

00:20know, them and Ole Miss are the three loss SEC teams.

00:23Now I can tell you right now, Mike, you know, tonight they're going to put Alabama as one

00:28of those first two teams out of the 12 and leave that door jarred open, just like they

00:35used to do when they were five or six, and there was four teams.

00:39And we're going to have a lot of discussion if they're going to be the three loss SEC

00:41team that gets in.

00:42Yeah.

00:43You know, I think a couple of things.

00:45First of all, one of my colleagues at work has come up with a reason and I'm not going

00:50to blow it for him.

00:51He's going to write a column about it.

00:52If the tide takes down the Tigers in the Iron Bowl.

00:58So I won't blow that.

00:59So he's got a good reason.

01:00I'm going to say it's a legit reason, but they also have some significant losses that

01:05could keep them out.

01:06But for me, if there's a more than two loss SEC team that will be long, it will be A&M

01:14if they defeat Texas and get into the SEC championship game.

01:17I will say this right now, Mike, if they do that, they will belong even at four losses.

01:23I think that's a reasonable thing, even at four losses, because I wouldn't punish them

01:28for then losing in the championship game to Georgia.

01:31They play an extra game more than a lot of other teams that are in contention for this.

01:35I think earning your way into that game by taking out Texas, I think they belong even

01:39at four.

01:41But Alabama has something that they have on their side.

01:44Now they have to win the Iron Bowl against Auburn, and there's no guarantee they do that

01:51after what happened against Oklahoma.

01:53I don't think we can guarantee anything with Alabama football.

01:56But if they do get that, I think there's a justification for them to make it, depending

02:01on everything else that happens, of course.