This is an opinion column.

Bear with me.

Let’s play this one out as the 2025 College Football Playoff bracket digests. It was a doozy.

At Notre Dame, the CFP committee is the ultimate villain.

Did they, in turn, create a potential Cinderella story out of … Alabama?

Humor me, just for a moment.

The Crimson Tide is attractive but down on its luck. Nobody believes it can improve a situation that looks dire.

Still, one could make the argument nobody wants to hear.

Is plucky Alabama ready to prove they belong at the ball?

Bippity … Boppity … Boo?

Just think about it a moment.

There’s a path.

If Alabama can get closer to healthy in two weeks, they face an Oklahoma team they already outplayed in defeat . It’s hard to imagine the Crimson Tide will gag up three more turnovers against

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