ATLANTA — Alabama football's postgame locker room after losing to Georgia in the SEC Championship Game was what Bray Hubbard expected it to be. It was a room filled with unhappy players, a group that wanted more from its first SEC championship appearance in the Kalen DeBoer era.

It was a locker room of players who saw the big picture: a 28-7 loss that put a chance at a College Football Playoff berth in jeopardy. But it was a locker room united — confident, even — that what the Crimson Tide had done was enough to make the postseason.

"We deserved a spot to be here today," Hubbard said. "We didn’t have the outcome. We got them at their place earlier in the year, they got us here, so obviously we feel like we deserve a spot."

To Alabama defensive lineman Tim Keenan III, it comes do

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