The Big 12 had a shot but one-loss Oklahoma State lost the championship game. 2021: The ACC was out before championship weekend because everybody had two losses.The Pac-12 didn’t have any one-loss teams. 2017: Besides Georgia as the third seed, Alabama got in as the fourth seed at 11-1, beating out Big Ten champion Ohio State (11-2).No SEC team has ever not made the Playoff, and twice it’s gotten two teams in. Over the years, Georgia and SEC fans have perhaps been lulled into a false sense of security about the Playoff. Let’s review how we got here, and where we are now. That’s why it’s time for Georgia fans to spend the next two weeks rooting for … Oregon State? Yes, Oregon State, as well as Georgia’s two biggest rivals. A one-loss SEC champion is almost certainly going to make it, especially when it’s the team going for a three-peat.īut a one-loss non-champion, who just fell to a one-loss Alabama team that would thus steal one of the four spots? That looks very dicey. Georgia renders all this moot by winning out or making up for a hypothetical loss at Tennessee by winning the SEC championship.

It’s a simple math proposition: There are only four spots. CFB bowl projections: Penn State, SMU earn New Year's Six invites

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