While the Alabama Crimson Tide will not play in this year's College Football Playoff (CFP), there will be a few former players taking the field who have previously transferred from the program in recent years.

College Football Playoff executive director Rich Clark said he was "infuriated" by a leak that revealed SMU had made the field before the official CFP announcement on Sunday. A minute before the Selection Sunday show began on ESPN,

Alabama football's schedule was tougher than SMU's, but UA put its CFP hopes in the hands of a committee instead of its own. And paid the price.