The Alabama Crimson Tide may not be the "worst" team in the 2025/2026 College Football Playoff field by ESPN's Bill Connelly's criteria -- that honor goes to Jon Sumrall's Tulane Green Wave, and the James Madison Dukes are the second-worst -- but they're objectively the least deserving.
Connelly acknowledged that the CFP selection committee did them a "massive favor" by including them in the second-ever 12-team field over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and BYU Cougars despite having more losses than both and not being bumped down in the rankings despite BYU getting penalized for the same circumstance.