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As recently as a week ago, the SEC was arguing it deserved five teams in this year’s College Football Playoff. There have already been proposals where the league (along with the Big Ten) would get four automatic bids in future years.
Well, if you want to know the nightmare scenario for the SEC in the 2024 12-team field, it’s this: just two teams.
Yes, two.
The College Football Playoff committee released its latest rankings on Tuesday and the cake is beginning to get closer to being baked when it comes to who is in and who is out.
After a disastrous weekend for the SEC that saw home underdogs Florida, Oklahoma and Auburn upset playoff contenders Ole Miss, Alabama and Texas A&M, respectively, the league has just three teams in the current bracket.
Texas, the presumed SEC champion, is at No. 2. Georgia, who has already clinched a spot in the SEC title game, is at No. 8. Tennessee is seeded ninth, and would play in Athens in the opening round.
Alabama (13), Ole Miss (14) and South Carolina (15) all sit on the outside looking in, stuck with three losses.
Here’s how it could all go wrong for the SEC:
No. 20 Texas A&M (8-3) defeats Texas on Saturday in College Station. The loss drops Texas to 10-2, but without a single victory over a ranked opponent. The committee drops the Longhorns from third in the rankings all the way out of the bracket.
Texas A&M advances to the SEC title game, but loses to Georgia to finish the season at 9-4. The Aggies would be out.
That leaves Georgia with the automatic bid and seeded second overall. Meanwhile, Tennessee (10-2 if they can beat Vanderbilt) is safely in the field and likely hosting a first-round game.
But that’s it.
There would be an open spot for someone to jump up into (the one Texas was giving up), but currently the committee likes No. 12 Clemson over Alabama (9-3 if it beats Auburn…
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Author : Yahoo Sports
Publish date : 2024-11-27 03:18:00
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