Alabama and Kalen DeBoer are headed to the College Football Playoff.

The Tide (10-3) earned a No. 9 seed and will travel to No. 8 Oklahoma (10-2) in the first round of the CFP on Dec. 19 at 7 p.m.

Most of the drama surrounded the bubble teams, and it was Alabama and Miami at No. 10 making the field by leapfrogging Notre Dame, which lost to the Hurricanes during opening week.

“We evaluated all 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 probably the best win arguably this season winning at No. 3 Georgia, having a win against Vanderbilt, win against Tennessee as well,” CFP chairman Hunter Yurachek said. “Their strength of schedule was the highest in the top 11. We fel

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