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ESPN personality says loser of Alabama-LSU matchup has ‘no path back to CFP’

The game of the year in college football is Saturday night at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

Alabama and LSU battle via ABC at 6:30 p.m. CT at “Death Valley.” This matchup has critical College Football Playoff implications as the loser of the game has no hope to get into the 12-team dance. Paul Finebaum, an ESPN personality, called the Alabama-LSU game the ‘first playoff eliminator.’ The game has always carried conference championship implications, national championship implications, Heisman implications, NFL Draft implications, and CFP implications, and that has not changed.

Finebaum picked Jalen Milroe over Garrett Nussmeier and said LSU will go down to Alabama.