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Alabama Season Outlook: College Football Playoff Hopes
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12/4/2024
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Miami in a power five conference in the ACC with two losses, Alabama with three
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dubsy and not playing for a conference championship. They can't make it in, but
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it's a new day and age here. So let's start here. Give me your thoughts on
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Alabama right now, technically ahead of Miami and awaiting to get into the
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college football playoff. Yeah, it's a tough one, Donny, because we're not
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gonna see Bama against us. They're certainly not gonna drop any further
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the stock someone's gonna have to jump in. But sitting at nine and three, you
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know, you've watched him at times going through the regular season saying this
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is the Bama of all the Bama that we've expected to see under Nick Saban in
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past years. They've definitely got that quality. You could make the argument
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that they've probably got, you know, a little more quality out there on the
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field at any given time than a couple of these other teams that will ultimately
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punch their ticket. So you look at the losses, Vandy, Tennessee, Oklahoma. That
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was in blowout fashion. Miami certainly had a couple of tough losses there as
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well. But it is the strength of schedule. And if you're trying to, you know, if
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you want to make the counter argument, they have had a very tough and testing
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season strength of schedule, sitting about 10th best, 10th toughest there in
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the nation. Three wins against top 25 teams. They've had six wins against
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bowl eligible opponents. So the quality and the measuring stick really has been
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there. And I think, you know, with this being such a new look version of the
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college football playoffs, they want Bama to be in there. It's going to be a
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ratings killer of the Crimson Tide and not a part of that first round. And not
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to say that that's going to be enough, but there's always that intangible that
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the old Crimson Tide will be rolling with. And again, it seems to be rolling
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enough to push them inside that top 12. And hopefully we do see them there,
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Donny, because I do think it makes it a bit more exciting, certainly for us
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talking whether they should be in there, whether they shouldn't be in
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there. But I do think they've got the pieces to be a bit of a force in the
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playoffs. I think they're better than a couple of the teams ranked above them.
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So I'll be that guy. I'll say yes, Bama should absolutely be in the college
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football playoffs. And that's with three losses, Donny. To your point, it used to
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be a day and age where you have two losses. That's not going to be enough
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for you. You've got three losses. Well, okay, we still got room for you.
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Mhm.
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