ExploreMore AJC coverage of the SEC Championship game “I know you’re going to ask me, so I might as well get to it,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said during his opening remarks in his postgame press conference. “The message that I would send (to the CFP committee) is: We won the SEC. We beat the No. 1 team in the country, which everybody on the committee thought was the No. 1 team in the country. They’d won 29 straight games. “So if we needed to do something to pass the eye test, I guess that probably contributed to it significantly. If you really want the four best teams to compete, the four most deserving teams that have progressed throughout the season …” In early September, Alabama infamously lost at home to Texas 34-24. This is a much improved Crimson Tide team now – as Saturday illustrated – but that loss…
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