Should 3-loss teams make CFP? Nick Saban thinks only one, maybe
Alabama football is among teams whose College Football Playoff hopes are on life support.
Ole Miss is another. Both dropped games they were favored to win this past weekend, and both SEC teams picked up their third losses on the season.
“I do think as we boil down to this, like right now, hard to reward a team with three losses,” former Alabama coach Nick Saban said on the Pat McAfee show Wednesday. “Especially the kind of losses Ole Miss had and like Alabama’s had to pretty .500 teams I want to call them. Pretty average teams. You’ve got some other teams that maybe they didn’t play the same competition, but they didn’t lose games to average teams either.”
Saban said he thinks that matters. The only team with three losses who Saban thinks would have an argument to be in the CFP field would be Georgia, who right now has two losses.
“If Georgia actually plays in the SEC Championship Game, they really shouldn’t be penalized if they should happen to lose the game,” Saban said. “They would end up with three losses. I don’t think a team that didn’t play in the championship game that has two losses should get in, especially if they played a good game and it wasn’t a blowout.”
Alabama (8-3, 4-3 SEC) will close out the regular season by facing Auburn in the Iron Bowl on Saturday (2:30 p.m. CT, ABC) at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Conference championships will be played the following weekend before the final CFP rankings are revealed.
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