Sometimes it is just not your year. Even if you are the greatest dynasty in college football history. The playoff will be played without Alabama for the first time after No. 16 Auburn won a wild Iron Bowl on Saturday. So that’s it. No debates about resumes, eye tests or how much the Crimson Tide would be favored on a neutral field against this team or that. No. 5 Alabama has lost two regular-season games for the first time since 2010. Nick Saban’s Tide has not only won five national championship since 2009, but three other times it entered the postseason with a chance to win it. Twice it lost to Clemson in the national championship game. Once Urban Meyer’s Ohio State team knocked Alabama out in the first round of the playoff. The last time Alabama was relegated to just a bowl game was 2013, when the Kick-Six sent…
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