Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer's attention quickly shifted to the College Football Playoff conversation following Saturday's 28-7 loss to No. 3 Georgia in the SEC Championship Game , the ninth-ranked Crimson Tide's third setback of the season.

If Alabama is chosen as one of the selection committee's seven at-large teams, the Crimson Tide will make history as the first three-loss team to do so. Alabama moved ahead of Notre Dame by one spot in the penultimate rankings, but the Tide is in danger of falling out completely with two-loss Miami expected to surge following BYU's loss to Texas Tech .

"You look at the games we played throughout the season, but if you're really looking at this game, it was a 14-point game with 7.5 minutes to go, and we had the ball," DeBoer said. "You

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