Paul Finebaum believes the Alabama Crimson Tide needs to make the College Football Playoff, despite an embarrassing 28-7 loss to the Georgia Bulldogs in the SEC Championship Game, because the Notre Dame Fighting Irish can't play in a conference championship.
The rules agreed to at the beginning of the season about Notre Dame's unfair built-in advantage are now the reason Alabama needs to make the 12-team field despite three losses. The only three-loss team to ever make the field was the Clemson Tigers, which won the ACC Championship to nab an auto-bid.
“They should be in, but they made it unnecessarily difficult for the committee because of an utterly humiliating performance,” Finebaum told AL.