While the Alabama Crimson Tide will not play in this year's College Football Playoff (CFP), there will be a few former players taking the field who have previously transferred from the program in recent years.

Alabama football's schedule was tougher than SMU's, but UA put its CFP hopes in the hands of a committee instead of its own. And paid the price.

College Football Playoff executive director Rich Clark said he was "infuriated" by a leak that revealed SMU had made the field before the official CFP announcement on Sunday. A minute before the Selection Sunday show began on ESPN,