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Nick Saban: Georgia is only SEC team with argument to get in College Football Playoff with three losses

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Nick Saban said there is only one team in the SEC that can make a College Football Playoff argument with three losses: Georgia.

The Bulldogs have losses to Alabama and Ole Miss this season, but clinched a spot in the SEC Championship Game. Because of that, Saban doesn’t think the third loss, if it happens, should weigh as much as other teams with three losses already.

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Granted, Georgia has to beat rival Georgia Tech this weekend to finish 10-2, but still await Texas or Texas A&M in Atlanta in a little less than two weeks.

“You got some other teams that maybe, they didn’t play the same competition, but they didn’t lose games to average teams either,” Saban said on The Pat McAfee Show. “So I think that matters. And the only team that could have an argument to get in with three losses, if Georgia actually plays in the SEC championship game, they really shouldn’t be penalized. If they would happen to lose the game, they would end up with three losses.”

Of course, the aforementioned Alabama and Ole Miss beat Georgia head to head but stumbled this past weekend with losses to Oklahoma and Florida, respectively.

“Well, you know, I hate to make comparisons, but I actually think they get it closer to right in basketball, because they have all these RPI things and, you know, strength of schedule, who you beat, how many good teams you beat, not necessarily how many you played, but how many you beat,” Saban said. “I think that should be a real consideration. But I do think, as we boil (it) down, it’s hard to reward a team with three losses, especially the kind of losses that Ole Miss had and like Alabama’s had to, you know, pretty (much) .500 teams, I want to call them.” 

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The sentiment of a three-loss Georgia team, meaning the Bulldogs are 10-3 with that third loss in the SEC title game, missing the playoff seems to be far-fetched. More are on board with Georgia making the bracket with three losses, if it comes in the SEC Championship.

ESPN’s Paul Finebaum agrees.

“If they get to the SEC Championship game and lose to Texas, you really shouldn’t get knocked out because you earned a ticket into the SEC game because of the 12-team Playoff,” Finebaum said Wednesday on First Take. “They got knocked out last year being undefeated. But that was a different year.”