Earning the No. 11 seed over Alabama was SMU, who was upset in the ACC championship game on Saturday by Clemson. REQUIRED READING:College football bowl game schedule: The entire postseason lineup ...

(This story has been updated with the final score). Alabama football missed out on making the first-ever 12-team College ...

On Sunday, we learned which teams will be competing in the College Football Playoff and those that had missed the cut shortly ...

Let’s start with the simple, easy and clear. If SMU beats Clemson in the ACC title game Saturday, Alabama football is all but in the College Football Playoff. That’s the result that would ...

First-year coach Kalen DeBoer and Alabama made things harder for themselves after falling to Oklahoma 24-3 on the road in ...

The expanded, 12-team College Football Playoff presented ... “We looked at the number of wins that Alabama had against ranked opponents. We looked at SMU’s schedule and they were undefeated ...

Just as Clemson’s game-winning field goal sailed through the uprights as time expired to win the ACC championship, the ...

In the end, Clemson and its Alabama graduate of a coach, Dabo Swinney, had thwarted the Crimson Tide, a construct that ...

Follow along as the College Football Playoff rankings are unveiled ... Which brings us to the big question. Is SMU or Alabama the final team in? We've been here before with the playoff.

The exact result Alabama football needed not to happen in the ACC title game ... happened. The Crimson Tide needed either an SMU win or a Clemson blowout win. Either was fine and would probably ...

Earning the No. 11 seed over Alabama was SMU, who was upset in the ACC championship game on Saturday by Clemson. From NFL ...