Alabama football made a small but important move in Tuesday’s College Football Playoff rankings . The Crimson Tide moved from No. 10 to No. 9, leapfrogging Notre Dame to do so.

The win moved UA off of the cut line, where it was in danger of being leapfrogged by an autobid by dropping one position. The question now: Is Alabama locked in, even if it loses the SEC championship game on Saturday to Georgia?

After the rankings were revealed, CFP selection committee chair Hunter Yurachek was asked whether the committee is open to dropping a conference championship game loser. Yurachek, did not fully answer the question, but ruled nothing out.

“Again, each of the championship games will just give us another data point to evaluate the teams that participated in those championship games, and

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