While the talk of the College Football Playoff has been who is in or will be in, one particular name has been basically ignored or skipped: Alabama.
Alabama is the elephant in the room that commentators don’t seem to want to discuss. The Crimson Tide is sitting in a perfect position to get into the playoff if chaos happens.
What does chaos look like for Alabama? The loser of the Ohio State/Michigan game dropping out of the top four, TCU losing one of their next two games, and USC having the same fate as the Horned Frogs, while LSU loses to Georgia next week in the SEC Championship game.
It’s not impossible, especially if the Crimson Tide can handle their business against the Auburn Tigers, who have improved these last few weeks, but the question is would the CFP committee pull the trigger on this?
Fox Sports commentator Shannon Sharpe seems to think so. In fact, he thinks three SEC teams could make it into the playoff.
.@ShannonSharpe predicts the Top 4 CFP Teams:
1. Ohio State
2. LSU (upsetting UGA in SEC championship)
3. Georgia
4. Alabama pic.twitter.com/xs3c4bdowc— UNDISPUTED (@undisputed) November 23, 2022
“When it’s all said and done, I believe Ohio State will be number one,” Sharpe said on “Undisputed” Wednesday. “I believe they beat Michigan…I got LSU upsetting Georgia in the SEC championship game. I think LSU is gonna pull it off. Brian Kelly got those guys playing unbelievable. They will be the number two seed. Georgia, which will lose, will be the only one-loss team. So, they have to be in their, kinda like what happened last year Skip when Alabama upset them. Alabama shot to number one and then Georgia still made the College Football Playoff. And lo and behold, guess who gets in? Everybody gets your roll on. They gonna get in because I believe TCU will lose one of their final two games.”
“I also believe that Notre Dame is gonna spring that upset on USC….The only thing that concerns me, Skip, because if LSU gets in, this will be the first, first time a two-loss team makes the college football playoff. Are they willing the first year that they accept one, allow two? They are very high on Alabama because of the last-second loss, a two-point conversion and a walk-off field go by Tennessee.
“They’re punishing Clemson. You got throttled by Notre Dame, who look like some trash earlier the season, and we are gonna hold that against you. So that’s why they bumped them down one and put Alabama up one … Mine is gonna be Ohio State one, LSU two, Georgia three and Alabama four. It is the Alabama invitational. We are there every year.”
If this scenario takes place as Sharpe thinks, college football fans’ heads would explode.
