Alabama stuns Georgia to win SEC title and incite CFP chaos
Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz reacts to the Crimson Tide snapping the Bulldogs’ 29-game winning streak and what it means for the College Football Playoff picture.
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JASON FITZ: Welcome to chaos. Alabama has won the SEC championship game, and in the process taking us closer than we have ever been before to absolute chaos for the college football playoff. Remember the last time Georgia lost the football game was to Alabama in Atlanta for the SEC championship, but that was before Georgia won 29 straight games.
The presumption was that Georgia would find a way to work this out. They've spent all year at number one. It never happened for them. And Alabama gets the big gutsy win. So the question is now, what will the committee do? How do they still continue to weigh head to head?
Every single week so far, the college football playoff committee has given us rankings that have had Texas ahead of Alabama. Why? Remember earlier this season, Texas went to Alabama and won that game by double digits. Not only did they win that game, but everybody that was on the field is the same.
So yes, we've seen development, and yes Jalen Milroe looks absolutely different today than he did then. But what is the committee supposed to do when it comes to the challenging job of weighing head to head? Alabama has made all of this wild with their huge win.
Yet again, they continue a crazy streak where they have never lost to Georgia in Atlanta. But this time the ramifications are huge. This win likely keeps Georgia out of the college football playoff conversation altogether, stopping any opportunity at a three-peat which would have been unprecedented.
And in the same breath, this win creates a very difficult scenario and debate for a committee that watched this game together and now has to figure out what to do with head to head versus simply looking at Alabama and trying to figure out who they are as a football team.
If you ask me, there's no way you can put Alabama in without also putting Texas in. You can put Texas in without putting Alabama in, but you cannot put Alabama in without putting Texas in because that absolutely eliminates the head to head. But that's what makes the committee's job so difficult, and what will make this the craziest announcement we've ever seen.