{"id":184119,"date":"2023-01-12T01:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nick-saban-votes-alabama-no-2-to-georgia-in-last-coaches-poll-of-the-2022-season\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T01:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:27:05","slug":"nick-saban-votes-alabama-no-2-to-georgia-in-last-coaches-poll-of-the-2022-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nick-saban-votes-alabama-no-2-to-georgia-in-last-coaches-poll-of-the-2022-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Saban votes Alabama No. 2 to Georgia in last coaches poll of the 2022 season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alabama coach Nick Saban is consistent.<\/p>\n

Saban spent the days before the College Football Playoff field was announced campaigning for Alabama to be a part of the four-team field. And after Georgia throttled TCU 65-7 in Monday’s national title game, Saban voted Alabama second behind the Bulldogs in the final USA Today coaches poll of the season.<\/p>\n

Saban had TCU at No. 3 followed by Michigan and Ohio State.<\/p>\n

The Tide coach wasn’t shy about voicing why Alabama should have been a part of the playoff before it was selected on Dec. 4. Despite losing two games in the regular season, one of the reasons Saban gave for Alabama’s playoff inclusion was because the Crimson Tide would be favored over every other team in college football outside of Georgia on a neutral field.<\/p>\n

Saban had the ability to campaign vigorously for Alabama because his Alabama team wasn’t playing on conference championship weekend. The Tide’s loss to LSU meant the Tigers won the SEC West. With Alabama not playing that weekend, Saban even went on Fox’s Big Ten title game halftime show to make the case that Alabama \u2014 not Ohio State \u2014 should be in the playoff.<\/p>\n

Alabama’s playoff case was always a long shot, however. The Crimson Tide would have been the first team with two losses to make the College Football Playoff. Ohio State had a significant edge for the fourth and final playoff spot because it had just one regular-season loss. And even though the Buckeyes nearly beat Georgia in that dramatic Peach Bowl semifinal, Saban still voted them fourth among the four playoff teams.<\/p>\n

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