CFP committee chair Warde Manuel joined the selection show, and in the process, commented on just why SMU was selected over Alabama. “Your debate on television really sums up the debate in the ...

After all, any team that lost to the Sooners in the regular season — like Alabama — had no business sniffing the CFP. If college football's highest-paid and most prominent talking heads were ...

The decision was guaranteed to cause a stir whichever way it went, but those who disagree with including SMU think it shows ... Alabama," Manuel said. This article originally appeared on For The ...

Alabama football missed out on making the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff in Kalen DeBoer's first season. SMU, the team that edged out the Crimson Tide for the final spot in the CFP ...

Former Alabama football coach Nick Saban shared ... necessarily," Saban said on ESPN's CFP selection show. "But my question about all the strength of schedule, 15th strength of schedule versus ...

Alabama undoubtedly looked like a CFP team. Unfortunately, they looked like one specific Playoff team, the Ohio State Buckeyes, given what the Crimson Tide's performance against Michigan turned ...

But because of the anarchy of college football, Alabama remains in the running for one of 12 spots that would compete for a national championship. With the final CFP bracket being released Sunday ...

Because its clear now, after the CFP selection committee released its penultimate rankings Tuesday night, that Alabama's shot at a berth in the inaugural 12-team playoff is not only alive ...

To make Crimson Tide fans even more indignant, the first round of the CFP was full of blowouts, with SMU, the team that made it, ahead of Alabama, falling 38-10 at Penn State. On Saturday ...

Many pointed to Alabama's win over Georgia in October as proof that the Tide could contend with anyone in the CFP, especially in contrast to SMU and Indiana. (Notably, Indiana beat Michigan and ...

The Alabama Crimson Tide and Ole Miss Rebels are two examples of teams who had arguments for being among the 12 best in the country yet missed out on the CFP. The reason that they missed out was ...