College Football Playoff reporter explains multiple ways for SEC to get two teams in CFP
By Keith Farner
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Since Georgia lost to LSU, the odds of the SEC having two teams in the College Football Playoff have grown longer. But there is still two more ways.
ESPN reporter Heather Dinich recently outlined two ways for the SEC to have two in.
“One is if the the SEC winner knocks off Alabama in the SEC Championship game, whoever that is, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, whatever you want to call it,” she said. “They get in and Alabama gets in. The other possibility, to me, is if LSU runs the table, and that’s Alabama’s only loss is to the eventual SEC champion. But look, the odds of that? Extremely difficult.”
The ESPN Playoff Predictor lists the top four teams most likely to make it as Clemson, Alabama, Notre Dame and Michigan. Georgia is next in line, followed by Oklahoma, Ohio State, LSU, Washington and Florida.
Dinich has Michigan ahead of Georgia among one-loss teams because of their respective schedules.
“That’s because Georgia, to me, just has a more difficult task to get in this thing, not only the game coming up with Florida, they still have to play Kentucky and Auburn,” she said. “And beat Alabama in the SEC title game, you continue to pile on about the obstacles they have to knock off to get into this thing, and I think it’s a lot easier for Michigan at this point.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
