Alabama football and its fans felt slighted after not making the College Football Playoff as a 9-3 SEC team, despite ugly losses to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt during the season. They were MAD mad about the perceived Alabama snub, and nonsensical talk of the Crimson Tide deserving a playoff spot continued through the first-round games.

Nick Saban didn’t mince words about Alabama‘s 19-13 loss to Michigan in Tuesday’s ReliaQuest Bowl. But, while acknowledging the multiple head-scratching turnovers by Crimson Tide quarterback Jalen Milroe in the first quarter,

We heard it for more than twostraight weeks, from the day that the College Football Playoff field was set, through the first round of games, and all through thi