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What Nick Saban said about Alabama missing College Football Playoff
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- What Nick Saban said about Alabama missing College Football Playoff
Before the College Football Playoff bracket was revealed, Nick Saban spoke of strength of schedule, repeating a common refrain of "all wins are not the same as other wins."
And after Alabama football missed a chance on making the 12-team CFP bracket, landing as the first team out behind SMU , Saban continued to push the message of strength of schedule.
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"I think one of the things I have mentioned throughout this football season is if we don't take strength of schedule into consideration, is there any benefit to scheduling really good teams in the future?" Saban said. "Like here at Alabama , we're supposed to play Notre Dame, Ohio State , Wisconsin , Florida State in the future outside the league. Those are great games for fans to see, and that's what I think we should be doing in college football is creating more inventory for great games that people are interested in. But do you enhance people wanting to do that where, what's the athletic director going to do? He may go cancel all those games now knowing that the SEC is tough enough.
"At the same time, I think the best teams are in the playoff, which I think is most important," Saban said, saying each team had a chance to "control its own destiny."
SMU lost to Clemson on a walk-off 56-yard field goal in the ACC championship game to secure the Mustangs' second loss of the season.
Alabama had three losses to Vanderbilt, Tennessee and Oklahoma and missed an opportunity to play for an SEC championship.
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Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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