On Saturday, Notre Dame went on the road to defeat Stanford 49-20.
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The Alabama Crimson Tide survived a late scare to fend off Auburn 27-20 in the "Iron Bowl" in Week 14.
On Tuesday night, the College Football Playoff selection committee bumped the Crimson Tide to No. 9 while dropping the Fighting Irish to No. 10. Notre Dame will go into the conference championship weekend hoping No. 3 Georgia knocks the socks off of Alabama in the SEC championship and No. 4 Texas Tech defeats No. 11 BYU in the Big 12 championship.
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