According to the Playoff Selection Committee, it was the Alabama Crimson Tide's body of work that made Alabama a playoff team
There are three primary reasons why the Alabama Crimson Tide is in the Playoff field. One is Alabama's full season body of work, which, based on Strength of Schedule, is Playoff worthy. A second reason is that Alabama survived the SEC Championship Game beatdown by Georgia because the Tide beat the Dawgs in Athens.
For the first time in weeks Hunter Yurachek made sense explaining why Alabama made the field, "We evaluated all of those conference championship games and felt like in the end, regardless of Alabama's performance yesterday, their body of work in those first 12 games when they had probably the best win, arguably, this whole season, winning at No.