BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WBRC ) - Despite the loss to Georgia in Saturday’s SEC Championship, the Crimson Tide are in the College Football Playoff.

Alabama is ranked No. 9 in the final College Football Playoff rankings and will travel to No. 8 Oklahoma in the first round of the first round of the playoff.

College Football Playoff Selection Committee Chairman Hunter Yurachek said that Alabama’s body of work through the regular season justified their placement in the final rankings.

“We evaluated all of those conference championship games and felt like in the end, regardless of Alabama’s performance yesterday, their body of work in those first 12 games, where they had arguably the best win this season, winning at No 3 Georgia, the win against Vanderbilt, wins against Tennessee as well, the st

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