There are few College Football Playoff doomsday scenarios still in play this season, but Joel Klatt believes one exists that would change the sport forever.

During Fox Sports Radio’s Thursday edition of “Outkick the Coverage,” host Clay Travis asked Klatt what he thinks the CFP committee would do if Michigan finished as a 12-1 Big Ten champion and Georgia upset undefeated Alabama in the SEC title game.

Though Klatt believes Michigan would get the nod over Alabama in that scenario — largely because the Wolverines would be the only team in college football history to win 10 conference games — he knows there’s a chance Alabama would still make the CFP. And that, in his mind, would cause the playoff format to drastically change.

“In your hypothetical scenario, if they were to include Alabama, I believe that the Playoff ends. … It blows up. Something happens to it. Either the criteria is changed and they say that only champions can go, or it goes to six, or it goes to eight. But that happens almost immediately. I think that the impetus to this Playoff was LSU-Alabama in (2011), and I think that we would absolutely get some change or iteration of change almost immediately if Alabama as a non-champ were included over a Michigan team that was the first team in the history of our sport to go 10-0 in a league and not get in. In particular, with a league that is, quite frankly, as good and has as much tradition as the Big Ten.”

There’s still a few weeks to go this season, but that scenario is possible. It would be fascinating to see how the CFP committee would handle Alabama and Michigan if they both finished 12-1.