Alabama football fans and former players would have loved to see the Crimson Tide in the 12-team College Football Playoff, yet few hold it against the CFP Selection Committee for not putting Alabama in.
Mark Ingram, a Tide legend and 2009 Heisman Memorial Trophy winner, tells the blunt truth about his Alma matter missing out on the playoff. In a video he did for The Triple Option podcast, Ingram said Alabama has no one to be upset with but themselves.
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“The CFP [College Football Playoff] Committee left us out,” Ingram said Monday.
“Yeah, I don’t like it. I know if we would have gotten in, we would have been a problem for every team in the playoff, they would not want to see us, and they know it too. But, at the end of the day, I have no one to complain to but the Tide. I have no one to be mad at but the Tide because we controlled our own destiny. We did not take advantage of the moments and opportunities that would have let us to control our destiny by going to the SEC Championship and the College Football Playoff. When you don’t control what you can control, you allow outside factors to determine you fate. That is what happened yesterday.”
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Ingram goes on to discuss why he respects Clemson getting into the playoff, but not SMU.
“It is what it is,” he said. “At the end of the day, Alabama did not handle what it was suppose to handle and that’s why we won’t be in the playoff this year. They have to take it as a learning lesson, learn from it, and grow from it. I know they will.”
Ingram is excited to watch the playoff, but he knows his school will make a return next season.
For now, Alabama prepares itself to face Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl on New Year’s Eve.
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Stephen M. Smith is the senior writer for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can “like” him on Facebook or “follow” him on Twitter, via @CoachingMSmith.
