247Sports analyst Steve Wiltfong predicts Alabama and Tennessee to meet three times this upcoming season.

Once in the regular season, then for the SEC championship, and then the College Football Playoff national title. Wow. That would be something.

It wouldn’t be a huge shock to see these teams play twice, as both are the favorites to win their respective SEC divisions. But three times? It would be unprecedented, considering no conference has produced two playoff teams in the first two years of the playoff era.

Alabama hasn’t lost to Tennessee since 2006, but Wiltfong believes that streak will come to an end on Oct. 15 when the Crimson Tide travel to Knoxville.

I love Tennessee. I love the roster overhaul Butch Jones and his staff have done in their time in Knoxville. I like that UT has a veteran at quarterback. Their playmakers on offense stack up, they’re good in the trenches on both sides and they have future pros at linebacker and in the secondary. I think they’re a top three SEC team on paper coming in and they don’t have to play LSU in the regular season. If they go 4-0 during a four-week stretch of Florida, at Georgia, at Texas A&M and home to Alabama, they’ll run the table. Lose one and they’ll have to beat the Crimson Tide or LSU in the SEC title game to make the playoff. They have the Jims and Joes to do it.

Wiltfong then has the Vols losing to Bama in the SEC title game, with both making the playoffs with a 12-1 record. Alabama then would beat Oklahoma in the semifinals before beating Tennessee — which took out Clemson the week prior — for a second time, repeating as NCAA champions once again.

That’s one heck of a prediction. And it’s by all means possible.