Alabama has made the College Football Playoff as the No. 9 seed and will travel to Norman, Oklahoma for a date with the eighth-seeded Oklahoma Sooners.
This comes after the Crimson Tide got molly-whoped by now 3-seed Georgia in the SEC championship game.
CFP committee chair Hunter Yurachek said that the team deserved to stay ranked ninth, in spite of the team’s performance in the SEC title game.
Alabama was one of three teams vying for two open at-large spots in the field, the others being Notre Dame and Miami. Ultimately, the Hurricanes and the Crimson Tide both made it in over the Irish.
“I think the committee did a good job,” former Alabama head coach Nick Saban said on the ESPN rankings reveal. “I just think that there was one team left out that I just don’t think should’ve been left out in some kind of way, but there was no way around it.”
Alabama looks for revenge in this playoff showdown after being unable to beat Oklahoma two years in a row. The teams last faced off in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 15, in a game in which the Sooners defeated the Crimson Tide 23-21, despite the home team outgaining its opponent 406-212.
Head coach Kalen DeBoer’s team will have a week off, as there will be no playoff games this coming weekend. This is massive for Alabama because DeBoer has noted that he has many players that are either out with injury or playing through injuries.
The Crimson Tide and Sooners will face off on Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. CT. The contest can be streamed on ABC.
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