The College Football Playoff will be played for the 6th time this year. In the previous 5 times, there has been one constant: at least 1 SEC team has been in the field.

That team is Alabama, who has never missed the Playoff. In the 2017-18 season, Georgia joined Alabama to give a single conference 2 teams in the top 4 for the first time.

But could there be a possibility of no SEC team in the Playoff field at all for the first time? According to ESPN’s Heather Dinich, it could happen. And it mainly centers around the performance of No. 4 Georgia and how it looks as the regular season comes to an end; while it simply needs 1 more conference win to clinch the SEC East, losing at Auburn but still beating Texas A&M to get to Atlanta would still leave it at risk of missing out thanks to a pair of conference losses. That could leave LSU as risk to drop out as well if it were to lose to Georgia in the SEC Championship.

“It would be interesting to see how far Georgia would fall in the committee’s third CFP rankings if it loses this week and picks up a second loss,” Dinich said. “Would a win over LSU in the SEC title game be enough to catapult the Dawgs back into the top four? Would the committee still take LSU? Would it take them both?”

What if both Georgia and Alabama lose to Auburn?

“Two-loss Auburn would then have two top-five wins, including against the SEC champ,” Dinich continued. “How high would Auburn climb, and would there be three Tigers in the top four (LSU, Auburn and Clemson)?”

While it sounds like a far-fetched scenario that Dinich lays out, that’s not to say it couldn’t happen.