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Down Goes BAMA…and Their CFP Hopes

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We will finally see what the College Football Playoff looks like without Alabama, after today’s loss to Auburn. The 15th-ranked Tigers were in the entire game against the 5th-ranked, and Tua-less Crimson Tide, trailing at most by 7 in this year’s Iron Bowl.  This game will no doubt go down as the best game of rivalry week 2019, mostly because of its playoff implications.

Since the inception of the CFP in 2014, Alabama has not missed it. They’ve no doubt deserved to be there every year, but isn’t it kinda boring seeing the same teams compete every year? I was definitely not looking forward to another Clemson vs. Alabama matchup. But now we don’t have to worry about that because there’s no way in hell a two-loss team could make it now!

BIG MAD

This is how the CFP rankings stand as of November 30th:

  1. Ohio State
  2. LSU
  3. Clemson
  4. Georgia

While this list still contains some very familiar faces, the one newcomer is LSU, who has failed to make the CFP since its inception. Alabama’s loss also keeps one-loss (as of now) teams like Utah and Oklahoma in the mix. We’ll see how the SEC championship between Georgia and LSU impacts the rankings, knowing that one of these teams will have another loss on their record. Since Utah has the edge over Oklahoma in the rankings(6 & 7), they have to win out to keep their CFP chances alive. I would love to see some Pac-12 representation in there.

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Tua Tagovailoa Should Enter 2020 NFL Draft Despite Injury

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Tua Tagovailoa should enter the 2020 NFL draft as scheduled and here is why: The next game is not promised to him. Some writers are throwing around the idea that he should play another season in college to prove he’s healthy and declare for the 2021 draft. The risk for a player like Tua is that he’s  just suffered a devastating season-ending surgery. If he should return, he could very well go out there in the first game of the 2020 season for Alabama and get an even bigger injury, possibly even career ending ….ya never know. So why not just strike while the iron is hot? Everyone has seen the talent he possesses, and he is expected to make a full recovery.

While he will no doubt take a financial cut since he will most likely not be selected as highly, he’s still going to sign for millions. Plus, when you think about endorsement deals and other streams of revenue Tua Tagovailoa is going to have thrown his way after the NFL draft, he’ll be just fine. 

Since people are also saying it could be a Bo Jackson type injury, which obviously ended Bo’s career, imagine if the same thing happened to him in college. Had Bo suffered his hip injury in college and come back to school the following year, teams would have seen that he was no longer the same electric player. I hope Tua gets healthy because I think he could do well in the NFL, but if he doesn’t return to being the caliber player he was this season, at least he’ll get some money out of it. I think a team like the Redskins or Bengals would no doubt pull the trigger and draft him…what have they got to lose? 

Tua Highlights

What a rocket arm he has. Even though running is a part of him game, even if he isn’t quite as mobile after the surgery, he’ll be able to hold his own in the NFL because of his arm alone.

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