For the first time since the inception of the College Football Playoff, Alabama will not have a chance to take home a National Championship. Instead, the 10-2 Crimson Tide will face off against 9-3 Michigan in the Vrbo Citrus Bowl on New Year's Day.
Alabama will enter this year's bowl season having given up more than 40 points in each of its two losses. It will be coming off a Nov. 30 defeat at the hands of Auburn, when it surrendered 46 points to its conference foe and saw a potential tying field goal doink off an upright from 30 yards out with two minutes remaining in the game.